During the NISO virtual conference on BIBFRAME & Real World Applications of Linked Data, Carolyn Hansen gave a clear and informative presentation on BIBFRAME, giving a general overview as well as addressing some challenges and recent developments.
Digital Initiatives & Metadata News
Are you an experienced cataloger? Do you have a few hours here and there to fill? Then Minitex is looking for you! The DIME unit is in need of one or two Contract Catalogers, who will help to complete projects for our member organizations.You can read the full job description and apply at the University of Minnesota's employment center here.
At the June 15 NISO virtual conference "BIBFRAME & Real World Applications of Linked Data" Tim Thompson from Princeton University Library discussed how they plan to represent handwritten annotations from Jacques Derrida's personal library using RDF vocabularies and ontologies.
Registration is now open for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting, August 9-11 at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Join your digital collections colleagues in the Quad Cities for three days of networking, sharing of best practices, and hands-on learning.
ALCTS (Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of ALA) is offering a series of two webinars on LC Classification (LCC). Hosted by Minnesota's own Bobby Bothmann in September, the Introduction level webinar will "briefly introduce the history of LC Classification (LCC) and the general principles of classification," while the Intermediate level "will focus on the selection and construction of LC Classification (LCC) call numbers."
The 2nd Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC16) will be held on August 9-11th at St. Ambrose University campus, Davenport, Iowa (Quad Cities). The conference will be held jointly with the 2016 CONTENTdm User Group Meeting, sponsored by OCLC, on August 10-11th. Registration opens in June, but group hotel rate options are now up on the conference website.
If you're attending the American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando June 23-27th, you may be interested in one or more of the following OCLC events. View the full list and register here.
As is now customary, the RDA Steering Committee (formerly the Joint Steering Committee) released updates to the RDA toolkit and instructions on April 12, 2016. The changes to the rules themselves consisted of minor and fast track changes such as correction of typos, clarification of language, and revisions to make terminology more consistent, as well as more substantive changes.
If you manage digital collections or digital content at your institution, you may be interested in following updates from the new website D.A.M. Stories.
In this upcoming ALCTS webinar on Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m., presenters will explore current trends and developments in library technical services and discuss how they will impact the future of this field of librarianship. Participants will learn about hard skills (such as programming, language acquisition, time management, and metadata schema) and soft skills (such as collaboration, creativity, initiative, and overall attitude) that will be instrumental in his/her success in the future of technical services.
Education and support for staff who build, manage, and preserve digital and physical collections