The Core Competencies and Education for a Career in Cataloging Interest Group seeks proposals for its meeting during the Core Interest Group Week, March 3-7, 2025. The group facilitates active conversation among librarians, library educators and information professionals about the current state of education and employment in cataloging and explores the relationship of cataloging practitioners and employers with library educators.
The Core Competencies and Education for a Career in Cataloging IG session will take place on Friday, March 7th at 12 PM CT/1:00 PM ET.
We welcome proposals for 15 min presentation that discuss any aspects of cataloging education and training, including, but not limited to the following topics:
- The state of formal cataloging education in LIS programs
- On the job cataloging training
- Designing and conducting on the job cataloging training for new RDA, BIBFRAME, linked data and other emerging cataloging standards and technologies
- Teaching and learning computer programing and other tools for batch cataloging and database cleanup
- The use of the Core Competencies for Cataloging and Metadata Professional Librarians in library education
We look forward to providing an engaging session with 3 short presentations (15 minutes maximum) offered in tight succession + a brief Q&A session to follow.
Please fill out the submission form at https://forms.gle/1mVyDQRnpu4YJrrVA
The deadline for proposal submissions is Friday, January 31, 2025. The notification about the decisions will be sent out by Friday, February 7, 2025.
We look forward to hearing from you!
ALA Core membership is not required to present or attend.
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Sofia Slutskaya
Head, Resource Description
Emory University Library
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