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Purpose: Discusses the theory and applications related to subject terminology intended for faceted application, including FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology), AAT (Art and Architecture Thesaurus), LCGFT (Library of Congress Genre/From terms), and others. Serves as a forum for users and others interested in the faceted approach to subject access to compare notes and discuss further developments and implementation of subject faceting for digital projects and related topics.

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Program Announcement - ALA MidWinter 2019 - FSAIG Meeting

  • 1.  Program Announcement - ALA MidWinter 2019 - FSAIG Meeting

    Posted Jan 07, 2019 10:41 AM

    ***Apologies for cross-posting***

     

    Please join the ALCTS Faceted Subject Access Interest Group (FSAIG) at the ALA 2019 Midwinter Meeting.

     

    Date and time: Saturday, January 26, 2019 from 4-5 p.m.

    Location: Washington State Convention Center, TCC-Tahoma 2

     

    Program: Judy Jeng, co-chair, of the FAST Policy and Outreach Committee (FPOC) will start our meeting with a FAST & FPOC update. Following the update, roundtable discussions will occur focusing on the following topics:

     

    1. Faceted vocabularies, do they matter to serials? (lead by Sophie Dong and Les Hawkins)
    2. Implementing faceted vocabularies in digital repositories (lead by Sai Deng)
    3. Evaluating the use of faceted subject terminology in a cataloging environment that lacks a discovery layer (lead by Joshua Hutchinson)
    4. Practical and scalable approaches to implement new facets in discovery systems
    5. Genre form terms in cataloging (lead by Nicole Smeltekop and Angela Yon)
    6. Everything about FAST (lead by Judy Jeng)

     

    For more information about FSAIG, visit our page on the ALCTS website (http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/camms/grps/ats-ccsigfsa) or our ALA Connect space (https://connect.ala.org/alcts/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=9488abee-3f69-4ba1-8956-871a2f087c6b)

     

     

    We look forward to seeing you in Seattle!

    Lynn & Lucas

     

    FSAIG Co-Chair, 2017-2019

    Lynn E. Gates

    lgates@uccs.edu

     

    FSAIG Co-Chair, 2018-2020

    Lucas Mak

    makw@msu.edu



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    Lynn Gates
    Director of Cataloging & Metadata
    Kraemer Family Library
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