Program Announcement - ALA ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Interest Group

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ALA ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Interest Group
ALA Annual Program, New Orleans
Saturday, June 25, 2011, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
MCC 253 
All are invited to attend the program of the Cataloging Norms Interest Group in New Orleans on Saturday, June 25, from 1:30 to 3:30, featuring four speakers:

Randal Baier  -  Archiving Gordy-Motown

Kelley McGrath  -   FRBR & Facets Go to the Movies: improving access to moving image materials in libraries

Kevin Clair - Data Curation, Data Management Planning and You: what it means for cataloging departments

Karen D. Miller  - What's That Keyword Search Finding? : subject headings, tables of contents, and more

1.    Archiving Gordy-Motown
Describing an archiving project at Eastern Michigan University involving the Gordy Motown Collection, a deposit of about 1200 LPs and 800 45s from the Motown office before they moved to LA in 1972. The collection includes sheet music, fan club materials, and office records. There is a finding aid up online and the collection is being digitized; the visual and audio materials are being cataloged. Currently they are creating links between the finding aids, the online catalog, and the digitized materials.
             Randal Baier (Multimedia, Fine & Performing Arts Librarian, Eastern Michigan University)

2.    FRBR & Facets Go to the Movies: improving access to moving image materials in libraries
    A look at some of the ways in which the functional requirements for bibliographic records (FRBR) model could make the cataloging of films and television programs more efficient and effective while also making the process of find DVDs in the catalog easier and more intuitive for patrons. There will be a  demonstration of  OLAC's prototype FRBR-inspired end-user interface for finding moving images and show how faceted navigation can provide more flexible access to the FRBR group 1 entities (work, expression, manifestation, and item) than the more common hierarchical approach. 
                          Kelley McGrath (Metadata Management Librarian, University of Oregon Libraries)

3. Data Curation, Data Management Planning and You: what it means for cataloging departments.
Academic libraries are increasingly tasked with providing data management support to researchers who have such tasks mandated as part of their grant application process. Metadata plays a vital role in ensuring a successful data management plan, but the role of cataloging and metadata services in this work is still womewhat unexplored. I will discuss roles for the metadata specialist in devising data management strategies with faculty researchers, potential delivery mechanisms for data and the role metadata plays in them, and how data curation ties into the existing work of cataloging departments.
       Kevin Clair (Metadata Librarians, Penn State University Libraries) 

4. What's That Keyword Search Finding? : subject headings, tables of contents, and more.
    In a 2008 study, Karen Miller and Michael Babinec found that the addition of tables of contents to bibliographic  records  in the catalog of Northwestern University Library had a statistically significant effect on circulation. We follow up here with a more detailed examination of how patron keyword searches are affected by the presence of TOC fields. Karen will present the results of this follow-up study, which illustrates what percentage of search results came from tables of contents, subject headings, transcribed fields, and other sources. The study also examines what kind of searches users execute in the OPAC, including the number of terms searched and search index usage.   
             Karen D. Miller (Monographic/Digital Projects Cataloger, Northwestern University Library)

Yours,

Michele Seikel
Associate Prof. of Bibliography, Cataloger
Edmon Low Library, Catalog Dept.
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater Campus
Stillwater, OK  74078
405-744-9724