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ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee report for November, 2025

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Dec 01, 2025 11:48 AM
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I'm Amanda Sprochi and I'm the LHRT liaison to the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee. This is the November report. Reduction in ALA workforce: ALA's reduction in workforce eliminated the position of the Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom, held by Deborah Caldwell Stone. There will no longer ...

ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee report

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Oct 17, 2025 11:09 AM
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Hi folks: I'm Amanda Sprochi and I'm the LHRT liaison to the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee. We met last week and here is my report. IFC is working on a few things this year: Programming is looking at presentation ideas for 2026 Annual. If you have any IF issues you would like to see addressed ...

RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee seeks topics for RBMS 2026 Conference presentations

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Sep 19, 2025 09:33 AM
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Colleagues, The Bibliographic Standards Committee (BSC) of the ACRL* Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) is committed to increasing programming related to cataloging, metadata, and technical services at RBMS conferences. Currently, we are seeking topics within these three areas to pursue for ...

CFP for "Cool Things We Cataloged" Webinar

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Aug 11, 2025 10:52 AM
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The Bibliographic Standards Committee of the ACRL* Rare Books and Manuscripts Section is seeking presenters for our webinar, "Cool Things We Cataloged". This will be the fifth year that we have hosted a webinar with this topic. We are hosting this webinar in Fall 2025 and Spring 2026. Accepted presenters ...

Webinar announcement: An Introduction to Cataloging Rare Maps

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Apr 21, 2025 12:35 PM
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Webinar announcement: An Introduction to Cataloging Rare Maps The Bibliographic Standards Committee of the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) invites you to the webinar, An Introduction to Cataloging Rare Maps Date: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm Eastern / 2:00 - 3:00 ...

Cool Things We've Cataloged RBMS webinar

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Oct 23, 2024 09:39 AM
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The Bibliographic Standards Committee of the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section invites you to the webinar, Cool Things We Cataloged. Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024 Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern / 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Central / 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Mountain / 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Pacific Register ...

RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee seeks topics for RBMS 2025 Conference presentations

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Sep 26, 2024 10:10 AM
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Colleagues, The Bibliographic Standards Committee (BSC) of the ACRL* Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) is committed to increasing programming related to cataloging, metadata, and technical services at RBMS conferences. Currently, we are seeking topics within these three areas to pursue for the ...

PCC report for the CC:DA Annual Meeting Summer 2024

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Sep 26, 2024 10:03 AM
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CC:DA Summer 2024 RDA Toolkit Update

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Jul 05, 2024 02:53 PM
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Update on the RDA Toolkit from Jamie Hennelly, the RDA Toolkit director, presented at the summer CC:DA Meeting at ALA Annual 2024.

Comments requested: RSC/ReligionsWG/2024/1 DEADLINE: July 5, 2024

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Jun 30, 2024 01:23 AM
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Hi Folks: Short notice, but please comment on the Religions working group proposal RSC/ReligionsWG/2024/1 It is very straightforward and proposes to change the word "church" to "place of worship," and move the instructions for some religious bodies to either a general corporate heading rule or ...

Reminder: CC:DA meeting at ALA tomorrow

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Jun 28, 2024 05:25 PM
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Folks: A reminder that the first CC:DA meeting will be held tomorrow at 1-4 pm at the Marriott Marquis Marina in Salon E. Salon E is in the South Tower on the 2nd floor; follow the pool signs. ALA shuttle no. 2 goes from the Convention center to the Marriott via the Hilton Bayfront and Grand Hyatt. ...

CC:DA Task Force to Review ISBD for Manifestation Report Summer 2024

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Jun 27, 2024 11:41 PM
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RSC Summer 2024 Presentation to CC:DA

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Jun 27, 2024 11:39 PM
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CC:DA Chair Report Summer 2024

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Jun 27, 2024 11:38 PM
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CC:DA Documents Online Repository Task Force Report on Activities, Feb-Jun 2024

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Jun 21, 2024 11:43 AM
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Sister Cities International Program at ALA

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Jun 20, 2024 11:15 AM
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The ALA International Relations Committee (IRC) Africa Subcommittee is sponsoring a program on the Sister Cities International Program at ALA. Link here: https://www.ala.org/.../ala2024_sister_cities_session... The program is about the Sister City International Africa's 500 in 5 initiative, an ambitious ...

Official Agenda for CC:DA Summer Meeting in San Diego

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Jun 07, 2024 10:59 AM
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Hi Folks: Here is the draft agenda for the CC:DA meeting at ALA in San Diego. I am going to try to rig up a do-it-yourself hybrid Zoom meeting, so there will at some point be links for those of you who need to attend online. I can't promise it will work but we will do our best. If you have anything ...

Job for a cataloger at the National Library of Medicine

Posted By Amanda Sprochi Jun 06, 2024 11:04 AM
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Hi folks: I got contacted by LAC who helps with hiring for the National Library of Medicine, and they have a cataloging job open: https://apply.workable.com/library-systemsand-services/j/BCE76F3879/ From what was said, it's a job in the History of Medicine Division, which I used to work at and ...

Call for agenda items for the CC:DA Summer meeting at ALA Annual

Posted By Amanda Sprochi May 28, 2024 09:58 AM
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This is the offical call for agenda items for the Summer CC:DA meeting to be held at the ALA annual meeting in San Diego, California: CC:DA part 1, Saturday, June 29, 1-4 pm at the Marriott Marquis, Marina Salon E CC:DA part 2, Monday, July 1, 9-12 noon at the Marriott Marquis, Marina Salon E Please ...

Ohio State Job Position: Head of Cataloging

Posted By Amanda Sprochi May 23, 2024 01:17 PM
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Hi folks: Morag Boyd from Ohio State contacted me and said they have an open position for a head of cataloging. You can read about the position here: Head of Cataloging Applications are open until June 2. You can contact her if you have any questions. aks ------------------------------ Amanda ...

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