Roslyn Keller
Larisa Smyk
Doug Roberts (WLU)
Alison Hitchens (administrative contact)
Additional members on mailing list: Paula Barton (UG)
Lorraine Bernard (WLU) (2011)
Liz Wehner (2008-2009)
Al Smith (2008-2010)
offered jointly with the ISD Training Committee
“RDA – isn’t that Recommended Daily Allowance?” Actually it is Resource, Description and Access, the new cataloguing rules being implemented by Library and Archives Canada, the Library of Congress, and other national libraries. “Cataloguing rules! Those are just for cataloguers, aren’t they?” Not really – changes to the cataloguing rules will affect how you search, find, understand, and navigate the library catalogue! Come and learn about how changes in the rules will affect you and your users and learn about the potential that RDA holds for improving discovery and access.
Karen Coyle and Thomas Baker
Libraries have been creating metadata for resources for well over a century.
The good news is that library metadata is rules-based and that the library cataloging community has built up a wealth of knowledge about publications, their qualities, and the users who seek them. The bad news is that library practices were fixed long before computers would be used to store and retrieve the data. Library cataloging practice continues to have elements of the era of printed catalogs and alphabetized cards, and needs to modernize to take advantage of new information technologies. This metadata, however, exists today in tens of thousands of databases and there is a large sigh heard around the world whenever a librarian considers the need to make this massive change.
As with all large problems, this one becomes more tractable when broken into smaller pieces. Karen Coyle will present her "five stars of library data,"
an analysis of the changes needed and some steps that libraries can begin to take immediately. She will also discuss the "open world" view of the linked data movement and how this view can increase the visibility of libraries in the global information space. This webinar will give an introduction to the types of changes that are needed as well as the value that can be realized in library services. Attendees will learn of some preparatory steps have already been taken, which should confirm that libraries have indeed begun the journey "From Here to There."
Join publisher Troy Linker and the ALA Digital Reference staff for a webinar, entitled RDA Toolkit checkpoint: where we are and where we're heading. The discussion will include the results of the U.S. National RDA Test and its impact on RDA and RDA Toolkit, as well as the following:
1. A demonstration of the recent updates and enhancements to RDA Toolkit, including the book-style table of contents and index.
2. A demonstration of new services that allow users and vendors to create their own links to RDA Toolkit content, including the a look at linking systems already in place with the Library of Congress's Cataloger's Desktop and OCLC's Connexion.
3. An explanation of resources for RDA Training and information about free 30-day trials and the special introductory double-user offer.
4. An open question and answer sessionThis webinar will explore the benefits of RDA. It will begin by looking at how RDA evolved from AACR2, and will discuss how RDA's new direction is advantageous for both users and cataloguers. Do RDA's objectives and principles have an impact on the user? How do RDA's instructions make a difference for the cataloguer? Will resource descriptions be more precise? Can RDA data support improved navigation? Will RDA allow us to get cataloguing data out of library silos? The webinar will be an opportunity to look at these questions and consider the practical effect of RDA guidelines and instructions on resource description and resource discovery.
This webinar will cover the basics of FRBR, including its development and contents. Participants will leave the webinar with an understanding of the entity-relationship model on which FRBR is based, the FRBR entities and relationships, and the FRBR user tasks. The webinar will then address, through an exploration of RDA itself, how FRBR lies at the foundation of RDA's structure, and what implications that might have on future database structures for our catalog descriptions.
This webinar builds on the lively e-forum discussion Using Web 2.0 Tools to Enhance Technical Services Work held in May 2010. The presentation will familiarize participants with blogs, wikis, tagging, RSS feeds, instant messaging, and Google applications, and demonstrate how they can be used to facilitate communication and streamline workflows in technical services. The presentation will also explain how to overcome some of the pitfalls in adopting new technologies, including technolust, and examine techniques for encouraging employees to adopt new technologies
Thomas Brenndorfer, Technical Services Librarian with Guelph Public Library is going to give us a presentation about FRBR, RDA, and how the upcoming changes might affect cataloguers’ everyday work. Thomas Brenndorfer specializes in FRBR/RDA/FRAD. He gives presentations at conferences and at various institutions, participates in mailing lists, contributes to blogs, and writes book review.
Librarians, ILS vendors, and commercial cataloging service providers -- as well as a wide variety of related service providers -- all know that the proverbial, heavily acronym-spice "bibliographic control alphabet soup" involves the intelligent and well informed use of many ingredients. Chief in these are constantly evolving standards, combined with more than a sprinkling of creativity and insight. Three expert metadata chefs will analyze and discuss specific alphabetic ingredients already in use or soon to be implemented in the bib control kitchen
The Training Committee for the Cataloguing Department coordinates training activity for staff within the department. The Committee may invite others to participate as appropriate, recognizing that staff from other departments and the associated colleges may also benefit from training sessions developed for cataloguing staff. The Training Committee is not responsible for coordinating the training of new cataloguers.
The Committee currently reports to Alison Hitchens, Cataloguing & Metadata Librarian.
Ensures that those responsible for acquiring new cataloguing tools advise the Committee of any need for training.
Solicits and receives training requests and handles each request as appropriate.
Determines who is best suited to provide training for the request and works with that person or persons to establish a time and place for the training. Books the necessary room and equipment.
Considers what groups of staff each session is targeted at and issues notifications/invitations accordingly.
As opportunities arise, considers the possibility of developing and offering sessions in collaboration with cataloguing staff at the University of Guelph and at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Solicits feedback on training sessions through the use of evaluation forms.
Maintains an awareness of training and development programmes offered elsewhere, for example, the Catalogers’ Learning Workshop (http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/) and the Education Institute (http://www.thepartnership.ca/partnership/bins/calendar_page.asp).
Maintains a web page which includes, at minimum, the terms of reference and current committee membership.
A minimum of two people from the Cataloguing Department . Membership will rotate every two years, preferably one member on and one member off to maintain continuity.
This committee does not have a budget. All financial requests should be submitted to the administrative contact: Alison Hitchens, Cataloguing & Metadata Librarian.
Alison Hitchens, Cataloguing and Metadata Librarian | x35980 |
Susan Lancsak, Cataloguing and Metadata Librarian | x36858 |
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