We are just around the corner from ALA Midwinter, held this year in sunny Boston, and you may be trying to decide what sessions to attend. I've pulled out a few of the ones that are most interesting from a cataloging/metadata point of view.
Professional Development News
The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Asssociation, announced their next e-Forum topic, Discovery Layers vs. the Traditional Catalog. e-Forums are free and open to everyone. Learn more about how to register on the website.
For any institution that needs to preserve and provide access to electronic records for the long-term, the following report may be helpful as you develop local workflows and documentation for managing this type of content.
In late October, Minitex DIME unit employees Jolie Graybill and Lizzy Baus traveled to the geographic center of the mitten of Michigan to attend and present at Convening Great Lakes Culture Keepers, a multi-day institute for tribal librarians, archivists, and museum curators from Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan.
Registration ends soon for the December Dublin Core for Beginners virtual course, taking place in 2 parts on Dec. 1st and Dec. 15th, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
OCLC Research TAI CHI Webinar: How You Can Make the Transition from MARC to Linked Data Easier
Attend this webinar on November 5th, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (Central) and learn more about what metadata specialists can do now to make it easier to transform text strings in MARC data into the entity-“things” we later expose as linked data that others can consume.
Minitex staff traveled to Rapid City South Dakota in late September to attend and present at the South Dakota Library Association Annual Conference. Along the way, we stopped at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell and the School of Mines & Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota. Below is a brief summary of both site visits, along with a few takeaways from the annual conference. See you next year SDLA!
In mid-September Minitex staff traveled to Jamestown, North Dakota for the NDLA annual conference. This year’s theme was “The Idea of the Library: Services, Collections, Solutions.”
Title: All the Best! RDA Best Practices Guides from OLAC and MLA
Date: November 17, 2015
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Cost: No charge
RDA for Original Cataloging
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Oct. 15th (9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) & Oct. 16th (8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Registration deadline: October 9, 2015
Strengthening the knowledge, skills, and efficiency of staff in libraries throughout the Minitex region