Hello everyone, I'm including our agenda for our midwinter meeting below. Looking forward to seeing you!
ALCTS Metadata Interest Group Meeting
ALA Midwinter 2019 (Seattle)
Sunday, January 27 | 8:30 am - 10:00 am
Washington State Convention Center, Room 3A
Our Scheduler: https://bit.ly/2A7mdFj
Our Connect Page: https://connect.ala.org/alcts/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=45b67b1a-f188-4e33-988f-a491aae3f94c
Welcome: Anna Neatrour, Chair
Panel Program on Crowdsourcing Metadata, 8:30-9:30
Please note: more program information is available on the Metadata Interest Group blog:
https://www.alcts.ala.org/metadatablog/2018/12/program-announcement-alcts-metadata-interest-group-meeting-at-ala-midwinter-2019/
Presentation 1:
By Samuel T. Barber, Cataloging & Metadata Librarian, California State University, Fullerton
Crowdsourcing metadata: the revolutionary cataloging interface and how it can help your library expose and promote hidden collections
Presentation 2:
By Becky Skeen, Special Collections Cataloging Librarian, Utah State University
Andrea Payant, Metadata Librarian, Utah State University
Wisdom of the Crowd: Successful ways to engage the public in metadata creation
Business Meeting -- 9:30 - 10:00 am
- Welcome and introductions of officers
- Officers' reports
- Vice Chair (Darnelle Melvin)
- Election at Annual, opportunity to volunteer
- Program Co-Chairs (Anne Washington/Mingyan Li)
- Secretary (Wendy Robertson)
- Blog Coordinator (Rachel Tillay)
- Review minutes from ALA Annual 2018: https://bit.ly/2EuILT
- Liaison Reports:
- Music Library Association (MLA) - Jim Soe Nyun
- Committee on Cataloging: CC:DA - Jessica Hayden
- Metadata Standards Committee (LITA/ALCTS) - Mike Bolam
- Open discussion for IG members
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Anna Neatrour
Digital Initiatives Librarian
University of Utah
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