The Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group is inviting speakers to present at the ALCTS Virtual Interest Group Week this June. Our session will be held on June 10 at 2:00-3:00 Eastern Time.
We are seeking two presentations that are about 20 minutes long. Audience questions and discussion will follow the presentations.
Theme: How cataloging can support changes and challenges affecting our libraries
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Cataloging projects in emergency situations like during COVID-19 pandemic
* Work-from-home ideas for catalogers and cataloging staff
* Addressing discovery layer functionality
* Maintaining cataloging efficiency for increasingly diverse collections
* Providing metadata insight for collection assessment
* Promoting the need for cataloging professionals
* Expanding metadata contribution
* Transforming metadata with APIs
* Adapting or developing metadata for digital collections
* 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
* Communication and collaboration between technical services, digital initiatives and public services
* Working with library data in the linked data environment
Please email proposals to the Co-Chairs by Tuesday, May 26, 2020. We will make our selections and contact applicants by Friday, May 29. 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, 2019-2020
Amy Bailey abbailey@indiana.edu
Jianying Shou jianying.shou@duke.edu
CCRIG Co-Vice Chairs, 2019-2020
Yukari Sugiyama yukari.sugiyama@yale.edu
Nerissa Lindsey nlindsey@sdsu.edu
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Yukari Sugiyama
Metadata Librarian
Yale University
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