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Subject: AACR2 AND METADATA-An ALCTS Institute, Thursday-Friday,August
16-17, 2001 in Boston, Massachusetts
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:06:55 -0700
From: "Sally C. Tseng" <sctseng@lib.uci.edu>

Dear Colleagues:

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (a division
of the American Library Association) invites you to participate in the
"AACR2 and Metadata" Institute, Thursday-Friday, August 16-17, 2001 in
Boston -- a great way to kick off the 2001 International Federation of
Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Council and General
Conference.

This is one of the most important Institutes for your professional
development in the 21st Century!    Please sign up immediately!

The two-day event will offer a wealth of opportunities to hone practical
cataloging know how and investigate solutions to integrating resources,
seriality and other tangled issues in the online and printed environment
-- of especial interest to those who face cataloging, collecting, Web
interface design, or otherwise in the constantly evolving electronic
environment.

Find out the most effective and most efficient options for providing
your
users with access to print and Web resources.  The first day will be
devoted to a thorough examination of traditional cataloging practices
and
forthcoming changes for monographs and serials, the second day to
exploration of a variety of issues related to metadata.  Here are a few
of the areas to be covered:

*       AACR2, Dublin Core, ISSN, MARC 21, RDF, W3C, XML, and approaches
        to handling metadata
*       Review of existing cataloging standards (e.g., AACR2, CONSER
        Guidelines, Hallam's Loose-leaf Cataloging, latest proposals and
        decisions from JSCAACR, CC:DA and MARBI, etc.)
*       Discussion on the future of cataloging in the electronic age and
        the development of new rules, guidelines, and standards for
        electronic and integrating resources (e.g., databases,
        loose-leaf, Web sites, etc.)

FACULTY MEMBERS AND TOPICS:

ALCTS had assembled a faculty of distinguished international scholars to
speak at the Boston Institute including:

The keynote address "Cataloging in an Electronic Age" will be delivered
by
Michael Gorman, Editor of AACR2 and Dean of Library Services, California
State University, Fresno.

Matthew Beacom, Catalog Librarian for Networked Information Resources,
Yale University, "Something Old, Something New: Using AACR2 and MARC to
Catalog Web Resources";

Jean Hirons, CONSER Coordinator, Library of Congress, "Seriality: What
Have We Accomplished, What's Next?";

Ann Huthwaite, Chair, Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR
(JSCAACR) and Library Resource Services Manager, Queensland University
of
Technology, "AACR and other metadata standards: the way forward";

Sheila S. Intner, Professor, GSLIS, Simmons College, "Struggling Toward
Retrieval:  Can Alternatives to Standard Operating Procedures Help?";

Erik Jul, Executive Director, OCLC Institute "MARC and Mark-up:
Different
Metadata Containers for Different Purposes";

Professor Yuan-liang Ma, Director, Shanghai Library, China, "Digital
Resources and Metadata Application in Shanghai Library"; and

Regina R. Reynolds, Head, National Serials Data Program, Library of
Congress, "ISSN: Dumb Number, Smart Solution".

The Boston Institute registration fee is $325 for ALCTS and New England
Library Association members; $375 for ALA and IFLA members; $425 for
non-members.

AACR and Metadata continue to be vitally important topics, and combined
with an outstanding faculty and excellent subject matter the regional
Institute is a MUST attend for today's librarians.

These Institutes are co-sponsored by the ALCTS SS, Committee to Study
Serials Cataloging (CSSC), ALCTS CCS Cataloging Committee: Description
and
Access (CC:DA) and the ALCTS Networked Resources and Metadata Committee
(NRMC).  A second Institute is scheduled for November 2001 in Dallas,
Texas and a third in the spring of 2002 in San Diego, California.

To learn more about the Institutes or to register, see the ALCTS Web
site
at:  http://www.ala.org/alcts. Or contact:

Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager, American Library Association, 50 East
Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611, USA, Tel:  1-800-545-2433 ext. 5034,
Fax:  312-280-5033, Email:  jreese@ala.org

Or,

Sally C. Tseng, Chair, ALCTS AACR2 and Metadata Regional Institutes, and
Head, Serials Cataloging, Science Library, University of California,
Irvine, P.O. Box 19557, Irvine, CA 92623-9557, USA, Tel.: 949-824-6832,
Fax:  949-824-2059, FAX (H):  949-857-1988,
Email:     sctseng@uci.edu

Or,

Mary Lynette Larsgaard, Co-chair, ALCTS AACR2 and Metadata Regional
Institutes, Assistant Head, Map and Imagery Laboratory, Davidson
Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 93106 USA,
Tel.:
805-893-4049, Fax: 805-893-8799
Email: mary@sdc.ucsb.edu

Thank you!  I look forward to seeing you.

Sally
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Sally C. Tseng, Chair
ALCTS AACR2 and Metadata Regional Institutes
Head, Serials Cataloging                 Telephone:  949-824-6832
Science Library #331                     Fax:        949-824-2059
University of California, Irvine         FAX (H):    949-857-1988
P.O. Box 19557                           email:      sctseng@uci.edu
Irvine, CA 92623
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