Dear Colleagues: Many thanks to ALCTS for sponsoring regional Institutes so you can attend the Institute close to you. After a successful Institute in Boston held from August 16 to 17, 2001 in Boston, the ALCTS AACR2 and Metadata Regional Institutes are coming to your areas. You don't want to miss this professional development in the 21st Century. 1. ALCTS AACR2 and Metadata Institute - Dallas, Texas, November 16-17, 2001 This two-day institute will be held on Friday, November 16, and Saturday, November 17, 2001, from 8:00 - 5:30 p.m., at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center, 1800 Highway 26 East Grapevine, TX 76051. The hotel is located at (between Dallas and Fort Worth, minutes from DFW airport). To reserve a room at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center, call the hotel direct at (847) 481-8444. ALCTS has reserved a block of rooms over the dates of November 15, 16, and 17, at a group rate of $139 single and $179 double (plus tax). The group rate includes conference dining breakfast buffet, full fitness center privileges (excluding retail and message), gratuity, and complimentary airport transfers. 2. ALCTS AACR2 and Metadata Institute - San Diego, California, March 8-9, 2002 Location to be determined For registration form and more information please visit: http://www.ala.org/alcts/now/metadata.html Registration fees for this institute are $325 for ALCTS members and State Library Association members; $375 for ALA members; $425 for non-members. Institute materials, continental breakfast, snacks and lunch are included in the registration fee. To Register, complete and return the Registration Form by October 26th. For more information contact Julie Reese, ALA/ALCTS, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 312/280-5034, or jreese@ala.org. The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) will host the "AACR2 and Metadata" institute in Grapevine, Texas (just outside Dallas) on November 16-17, 2001. This institute, developed by the ALCTS Serials Section, Committee to Study Serials Cataloging, ALCTS CCS, CC:DA, ALCTS Networked Resources and Metadata Committee, builds on the successful Preconference on Metadata held in Chicago in July 2000. Find out the most effective and most efficient options for providing your users with access to print and Web resources. Topics range from library leaders' viewpoints on cataloging in an electronic age to the how-to's of creating records. This institute emphasizes presenting the standards, and especially the practicalities, of dealing with metadata for Web resources and a vision for the future, including AACR2, Dublin Core, ISSN, MARC21, RDF, seriality, XML, W3C and the implementation of new rules, guidelines, and standards. A group of acclaimed library professionals and educators has been invited to serve as faculty for the Institutes to give in-depth presentation. Faculty, in alphabetical order, and topics for the Dallas Institute are: Grace Agnew, Assistant Director, Systems and Technical Services, Georgia Institute of Technology Library, "Developing the Metadata Repository". Dr. Murtha Baca, Head, Standards Program, Getty Research Institute, "Metadata Schemas and Controlled Vocabularies for Art and Architecture". 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? " Dr. Sheila S. Intner, Professor and Director, Simmons College GSLIS at Mt. Holyoke 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". Regina R. Reynolds, Head, National Serials Data Program, Library of Congress, "ISSN: Dumb Number, Smart Solution". Dr. Barbara B. Tillett, "AACR and Metadata : Library Opportunities in the Global Semantic Web - LC, IFLA, Dublin Core, Virtual International Authority Files, and More". Participants will have ample opportunity to network and share ideas during the two-day institute. The first day focuses on standard cataloging practices for monographs and serials. The second day considers metadata initiatives and examines alternative approaches to handling metadata, including Dublin Core, ISSN, MARC21, RDF, and XML. Who Should Attend This Institute is intended for librarians - in academic public and special libraries - who are responsible for providing users with access to print publications or electronic resources available over the Web and through on-going publication, whether by cataloging, by collecting, or by designing subject-specific Web pages, or by other means. For Details Please Contact: Sally, C. Tseng, Chair ALCTS AACR2 and Metadata Institutes Head, Serials Cataloging Science Library University of California, Irvine P.O. Box 19557 Irvine, CA 92623 U.S.A. Telephone: 949-824-6832 FAX (H): 949-857-1988 email: sctseng@uci.edu Mary Lynette Larsgaard, Co-chair ALCTS AACR2 and Metadata Institutes Assistant Head, Map and Imagery Laboratory Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 Telephone: 805/893-4049 Fax: 805/893-8799 email: mary@library.ucsb.edu Charles Wilt Acting Executive Director ALA/ALCTS 50 E. Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 Telephone: (800) 545-2433, ext. 5033 email: cwilt@ala.org Julie Reese ALA/ALCTS 50 E. Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 Telephone: (800) 545-2433, ext. 5034 email: jreese@ala.org
