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  • Call for Proposal: ALA ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group 2019 Annual

    Call for Proposal: ALA ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group Annual Meeting (Washington DC)  

    The ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging & Classification Research Interest Group seeks speakers to present at the ALA Annual Conference to be held in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, June 23, 2019., from 10:30am to 11:30am. 

    Full presentations that are accepted are asked to be about 15 minutes long and the accepted light presentations 5-10 minutes long. Audience questions and discussion after the presentations are encouraged. See below for details: 

    Theme:
    Thinking Outside the Book: Research on Non-traditional Cataloging & Classification 

    Topics include (but not limited to): research on 

    • Classification, categorization and clustering in facilitating resource organization, description and retrieval; 
    • Classification schemes, adapting or developing classification systems for describing and classifying digital documents in the library and the web; 
    • Application of bibliographic classification principles in working with digital collections and metadata in institutional and digital repositories; 
    • Ethical issues in subject analysis and biases in classification schemes, thesauri and other knowledge organization systems; 
    • Thesauri in modern information retrieval and automatic text classification; 
    • Collaboration with graduate students, faculty and researchers in digital humanities, science and other fields on data curation related projects on campus and beyond; 
    • Transforming library bibliographic data from MARC to BIBFRAME, RDA and the Library Reference Model, and other innovative cataloging and metadata projects; 
    • Communications between technical services, digital initiatives and public services; 
    • Semantic web and LOD technologies in working with library data, and cataloger's responsibilities in the linked data environment. 

    Please email proposals to the Co-Chairs by Friday, April 26, 2019. In your proposal, please include the following:

    • 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)

    We look forward to hearing from you!
     
    CCRIG Co-Chairs, 2018-2019
    Sai Deng  sai.deng@ucf.edu
    Becky Skeen  becky.skeen@usu.edu

    CCRIG Co-Vice Chairs, 2018-2019
    Amy B. Bailey  abbailey@indiana.edu
    Jianying Shou  jianying.shou@duke.edu