ALCTS Continuing Education on YouTube

ALCTS, the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, is offering free access to some of their archived webinars via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/alctsce

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ISSN and You: Using ISSN SuperNumber in the Digital Environment

ALCTS Webinar,  November 9, 2011

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.

Description: Learn about the work of the US ISSN Center and ways the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) contributes to identification, access, and data linking in print and digital environments worldwide. ISSN is the premier international identifier for serials and other continuing resources in all formats. ISSN was ahead of its time in anticipating the crucial role of identifiers in the digital environment and has evolved well beyond its early role as a number displayed on print journals. Demand for ISSN continues to increase because of its ability to identify and facilitate linking to current, long-dead, or yet-to-be published continuing resources today and in the future semantic web.

Audience: Any library staff members who work with any aspect of serials and other continuing resources (acquisitions, cataloging, ERMs, Open URLs), systems librarians, reference librarians, publishers, subscription agents, online platform providers, and fulltext data.

              

Presenter: Regina Romano Reynolds is ISSN Coordinator at the Library of Congress and director of the US ISSN Center. She is a frequent speaker and writer about ISSN, serials, and the future of bibliographic control; convener of the ISO working group to revise ISO 8:1977, the Presentation of Periodicals; a member of NISO’s PIE-J Working Group to develop recommended practices for the presentation and identification of e-journals. Reynolds received the 1999 ALCTS Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award.

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For additional information, pricing options, or to complete the online registration form, go to the following link and select the session you would like to attend.

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/index.cfm

ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling

1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or alctsce@ala.org.

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.

ISSN and You: Using ISSN SuperNumber in the Digital Environment

Regina Romano Reynolds will present a webinar entitled, "ISSN and You: Using ISSN SuperNumber in the Digital Environment" as part of a series offered by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). The webinar is schedule for November 9, 2011.

More information is available on the ALCTS website.

Upcoming Webinar on the CONSER Standard Record

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced an upcoming webinar, "The CONSER Standard Record: Where Are We Now?" Steve Shadle will present this hour-long webinar on October 5, 2011.

Find more information, including fees and how to register, on the ALCTS website.

Call for Proposals: ALCTS Cataloging Norms Interest Group

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Cataloging & Classification Section (CCS) Cataloging Norms Interest Group invites speakers for its meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans on Saturday, June 25th from 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Presentation topics should be of current interest to catalogers, cataloging managers and administrators.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Evolution, definition, and functions of the catalog and cataloging norms
• Emerging concepts and implementations of "next generation catalogs"
• RDA and FRBR
• Cataloging in hybrid and digital libraries
• Changes in catalogers' workflows
• Emerging perceptions of cataloging quality
• How end users' expectations and behaviors affect cataloging norms
• Metadata records and elements in different contexts
• The impact of web norms on cataloging norms from the perspectives of web developers and catalogers

Presentations should be approximately 15-20 minutes in length, with additional time allowed for questions and answers. Please send abstracts of proposals to co-chairs by Monday, May 9th.  We look forward to hearing from you!

Cataloging Norms Co-Chairs,

Michele Seikel 

Associate Prof. of Bibliography, Cataloger, 

Edmon Low Library, Oklahoma State University 

seikel@okstate.edu

Co-Chair, ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Interest Group

Melanie McGurr 

Coordinator of Authority Control and Database Maintenance 

Ohio State University Libraries 

Co-Chair, ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Interest Group

mcgurr.2@osu.edu

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Request for Proposals from the ALCTS Continuing Resources Section College and Research Libraries Interest Group

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Continuing Resources Section College and Research Libraries Interest Group (CRS C&RL IG) requests presentation proposals for our ALA Annual meeting in New Orleans Sunday June 26, 2011, from 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Withdrawing print when libraries also have online access
• Distributed print repositories
• Coping with hard economic times in continuing resources acquisitions and collection management
• Pay-per-view pricing for journal articles and new models of acquisitions
• Continuing resources cataloging
• Next generation OPACs and continuing resources displays
• Accessing continuing resources through discovery platforms
• Continuing resources in a mobile computing environment 
• Other topics?

Each presentation should be approximately 20 minutes. There will be time for discussion. 

Please e-mail proposals by May 1st to Beth Bernhardt  beth_bernhardt@uncg.edu and Patrick Carr carrp@ecu.edu

Please include in your proposal:

• Title of presentation
• Brief summary of proposed presentation
• Name(s) and position(s) of presenter(s)
• E-mail address(es) of presenter(s) 

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ALCTS webinar: RDA and Serials Catalogers

ALCTS webinar: RDA and Serials Catalogers: Will Our Work Really Change?

Date: March 2, 2011

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, noon Mountain, and 11am Pacific Time.

Description: How will RDA affect serials cataloging? This webinar will provide an overview of the work done by the ALCTS Continuing Resources Section’s Continuing Resource Cataloging Committee in testing RDA. It will also highlight issues affecting serials cataloging that have arisen during the national RDA testing.

Audience: Cataloging staff who already have some experience with serials cataloging and who want to know how their current practices will change with RDA.

Presenter: Steve Shadle is Serials Access Librarian at the University of Washington Libraries where he is responsible for local systems and services that provide access to electronic serials (including library cataloging). With Les Hawkins (CONSER Program Coordinator), he developed the Electronic Serials Cataloging Workshop for the Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program (SCCTP) and also serves as a trainer for a number of SCCTP courses. In 2010 Steve received the Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award in recognition of his work on eSerial cataloging continuing education. Steve is on the Editorial Board for Serials Review and is the current Vice-President/President-Elect of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG).

This is the third is a series of five webinars on RDA. The webinars included in the RDA series are:

February 2, 2011 - Changes from AACR2 to RDA. Part 1: Description
February 9, 2011 - Changes from AACR2 to RDA. Part 2: Access Points
March 2, 2011 - RDA and Serials Catalogers: Will Our Work Really Change?

March 16, 2011 - Linked library data: tuning library metadata for the Semantic Web

April 6, 2011 - Preparing copy catalogers for RDA

To Register, complete the online registration form at http://www.ala.org/ala/onlinelearning/reg/webinar.cfm

for the session you would like to attend.

Fees for individual webinars:

Group Rates - ALCTS Members & Non-Members: $99

Individuals - ALCTS Members: $39; Non-Members: $49

Participants outside the United States may register at the ALCTS member rate. 

Pricing for RDA Series: (All 5 webinars)
Group Rates - ALCTS Members & Non-Members: $346
Individuals - ALCTS members: $120; Non-members: $160

Participants outside the United States may register at the ALCTS member rate. 

All webinars are recorded and the one-time fee includes unlimited access to the webinar recording. All registered attendees will receive the link to the recorded session so if you are unable to attend the webinar at the time it is presented, you will have the opportunity to listen to the recording at your convenience.

For questions about registration, contact Tom Ferren, ALA Senior Registration Coordinator at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4293 or tferren@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager.

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.