Greetings:
The ALCTS CaMMS Catalog Management Interest Group seeks speakers to present at its meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC on Saturday, June 22, 2019, 1:00-2:00PM ,
We would particularly like to hear from prospective presenters who wish to share their experiences with batch processing and metadata reconciliation projects completed using MarcEdit, OpenRefine, various scripts (Python, Perl, etc.) and other tools that facilitate record processing and enhance catalog management.
Presentation proposals should include:
- Presentation title
- Abstract: 150-300 words
- Amount of time needed to make the presentation
- Names and positions of presenter(s)
- Email address(es) of presenter(s)
Please submit your proposal by May 1, 2019 by sending via e-mail to the IG co-chairs:
Vesselina Stoytcheva at Vesselina.Stoytcheva@occ.treas.gov
Jeanette Sewell at Jeanette.Sewell@rice.edu
The vice co-chairs for 2018-2109 and incoming co-chairs for 2019-2020 of the Catalog Management IG are Dan Tam Do at Dan-Tam.Do@uvm.edu and Marina Morgan at mmorgan@flsouthern.edu
The ALCTS CaMMS Catalog Management Interest Group discusses the various issues involved in cataloging, classification, authority control and metadata application after the initial cataloging has been performed, including its impact on discovery. It provides a forum for exchanging information and discussing techniques, new developments, and problems with managing the data integrity of library catalogs and related discovery tools.
Thanks,
Vesselina
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Vesselina Stoytcheva
Librarian
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
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