Registration is now open for the New England Technical Services
Librarians' 2009 Spring Conference.

Visit http://www.nelib.org/netsl/conference-2009.htm for the complete
program and a link to the mail-in registration form. Online registration
will be available very soon. (We'll post another announcement to this
list as soon as it's available.) We look forward to seeing you there!

Program details

NETSL Annual Spring Conference Program 2009:

Working the Cataloging Landscape: Fishing, Mining, and Harvesting

Friday, April 17, 2009

9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Sign-in begins at 8:30 a.m.

Hogan Campus Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

http://www.holycross.edu/directions/hogan.html

Registration (registration closes April 3):

Member: $50

Non-Member: $75

Student: $25

*         Register by mail
<http://www.nelib.org/netsl/ConferenceRegistrationMailin-2009.pdf> ,
with a check

*         Online registration is coming soon

Karen Coyle, Librarian and Consultant in the area of digital libraries

"Metadata is a Plural Noun"

Libraries have operated for over 150 years with a very singular view of
bibliographic metadata: the catalog record. In a new world of
interactive, networked information, the catalog record can no longer
stand apart if it is to serve information users. The focus must move
from the record to the data itself, and to the many contexts where
bibliographic data elements must be designed to interact with the online
information universe.

Breakout sessions

*         RDA: Boondoggle or Boon? And What About MARC?

      Rick Block, Columbia University Libraries

*         Beyond Federated Search: The Next Generation of Discovery

      Tracey L. Thompson-Przylucki, New England Law Library Consortium

*         Fishing Upstream: Publisher-supplied Cataloging and Libraries

      Andreas Biedenbach, Springer Pub.

      Leslie Horner Button, University of Massachusetts Amherst

*         Collecting Free Web Resources: Selecting, Harvesting,
Cataloging

      Alex Thurman, Columbia University Libraries

Lunch (Hot buffet lunch provided. Includes Chef's selection of soup,
salad & rolls, Chicken Piccata, Tofu Stir Fry (vegan), coffee,
decaffeinated coffee, soft drinks, tea and dessert.)

Presentation of the NETSL Award for Excellence in Technical Services

Spotlight on the New England Chapter of the Music Library Association
(NEMLA) http://www.wesleyan.edu/nemla/

Ted Fons, Director, OCLC WorldCat Global Metadata Network

Mining the OPAC: Next Generation Catalogs Panel

*         Primo: Kevin Kidd, Boston College

*         VuFind: Daniel Lovins, Yale University Library

*         WorldCat Local: Remlee Green, MIT