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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 (Faculty Director,
  Cataloging and Metadata Services Dept. University of Colorado at
  Boulder) presenting the "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