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ALCTS CRS Holdings Committee and Standards Committee jointly present the following forum at 2012 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Dallas, Texas:

“Discovering and Cataloging Repositories and Unique Collections: An Update on Standards, Preservation, and Usage,” a forum jointly presented by the ALCTS CRS Standards Committee and the Holdings Committee

Saturday, January 21, 2012, 4:00-5:30 pm, DCC, Room D168

As more resources are indexed online and as more researchers begin their quest in a digital environment, unique local collections and institutional repositories play an ever more important role. The development of standards for these materials and ensuring their long-term preservation is crucial.

Join us for an update by:

Marie-Elise Waltz of CRL on “Auditing Digital Repositories, The TDR Checklist, and ISO 16363.”

Melanie Wacker will present “Cataloging Unique Collections with RDA and Non-MARC Standards.”  Learn about the RDA testing experiences with mainly non-print resources at Columbia University.

Gary Van Overborg of Scholarly iQ will discuss “The PIRUS Project: Objectives, Outcomes, and Next Steps.” Discover how the PIRUS2 project (Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) is enabling the recording and reporting of articles hosted by aggregators or in repositories.