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The ALCTS/CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group will present the following
program at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California:

What:  ALCTS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group
When:  June 28, 2008, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Where: Room Malibu, Hilton Anaheim Hotel

The meeting will begin with Jina Choi Wakimoto?s (Faculty Director,
Cataloging and Metadata Services Dept. University of Colorado at
Boulder) "Scope of the Library Catalog in Time of Transition."
    There has been a flurry of healthy discussions and debates about the future
of cataloging and the catalog, from FRBR and RDA on cataloging rules
(focus on content) to next-generation discovery interfaces on the
catalog (focus on carrier). A segment that is not receiving as much
attention in the midst is the scope of the library catalog. Library
catalog can be viewed as the Web in the local context. This
presentation offers an opinion on the scope of the catalog in a
research library, the role of the catalogers in this time of
transition and some practical approaches catalogers can take to
reposition the catalog.

Next, Elaine L. Westbrooks (Head of Metadata Services, Cornell
University Libraries) will present "Access, Fear, and Change: Bringing
Catalogers along in the Non-MARC Metadata Arena."
    According to On the Record: Report of The Library of Congress
Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, the future of
cataloging will be shaped by the way in which we redefine
bibliographic control and the bibliographic universe. Redefining these
critical concepts would require library administrators and catalogers
to abandon the prevailing system of cataloging. For administrators,
the use of fear to instigate change (while ignoring the shortcomings
of MARC encoding and the poorly constructed integrated library system)
within technical services has been a widely implemented yet largely
ineffective- hence a paradigm shift away from fear to use of positive
incentives for change is necessary. For the cataloger, the shift from
perfecting the MARC record has taken place in many institutions
however, the sense of accomplishment that could be gained from
creating access and facilitating discovery require a paradigm shift
that would highlight the connection between the cataloger and the
end-user. The purpose of this talk is to discuss methods by which this
paradigm shift can be cultivated within research libraries to begin
thinking about a new
system of cataloging which can be less resource intensive and one that
focuses on the user.

The final presentation will be "A California Adventure: WorldCat Local
and Next-Generation Cataloging," presented by John Riemer (Head, UCLA
Library Cataloging & Metadata Center) and Linda Barnhart (Head,
Metadata Services Department, UCSD Libraries).
    WorldCat Local implementation could bring major technological and
sociological changes to cataloging work. The University of California
libraries released their union catalog on the WorldCat Local platform
on May 27, 2008. John and Linda will present some of the key lessons
learned from the implementation process as well as their thoughts
about how this new product moves the profession toward next-generation
cataloging.

A question and answer session will follow the presentations.

Co-Chairs: Tatiana Barr and Lihong Zhu;
Co-Vice-Chairs: Birdie MacLennan and Adrienne Aluzzo