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Academic Library Section
CURRENT NEWS
The 2002 ULA Conference, May 1-3
South Towne Exposition Center
Sandy, UT
Wednesday, May 1, 9am to 12:00pm
Authority Control for MARC, Metadata, and Beyond
This session provides basic information on authority control: what it is, why it is important, how it can be applied to all types of databases and formats, its costs, outsourcing, how to interpret and use an authority record, how to research and construct headings, and how to justify authority control to doubtful administrators.
Speaker: Rachel L. Wadham, Name Authorities Librarian/NACO Coordinator, Brigham Young University
Audience: Catalogers of any size or type of library
Sponsors: Technical Services Round Table; Academic Library Section
Wednesday, May 1, 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Authority Control: You Could be One of Us; Cooperative Cataloging Programs
This session focuses on cooperative cataloging programs offered by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) including NACO, SACO, BIBCO, and CONSER. This session describes their programs, their guidelines, associated costs, etc. and provides introductory training and preliminary steps toward NACO/SACO certification for prospective members.
Speaker: Rachel L. Wadham, Name Authorities Librarian/NACO Coordinator, Brigham Young University
Audience: Catalogers of any size or type of library
Sponsors: Technical Services Round Table; Academic Library Section
Thursday, May 2, 11am to Noon
New-Frontier Trail Guides: Faculty-Librarian Collaborations on Information Literacy
Information literacy is essential for successful expeditions into the ever-expanding knowledge frontier. Faculty and librarians can guide each other, and the learners they serve, past wastelands to fertile soil and reliable wells to sustain inquiry and cultivate deeper understanding. Participants will discuss successes and challenges in facilitating faculty-librarian collaboration.
Speaker: Dr. Thomas H. Cunningham, Associate Professor of Library Media, Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence, Coordinator of Library Instruction & Training, Southern Utah University; Scott Lanning, Professor of Library Media, Southern Utah University
Audience: Academic Librarians
Sponsor: Academic Library Section
Track: Personal & Professional Development
Thursday, May 2, from 1:15pm to 2:15pm
Instructional Video for the Web: Or, So You Want to Make Digital Video?
This program covers an overview of digital video. Digital video is an exciting technology that has many appropriate applications. The presenter will discuss a variety of issues, including: when is video an appropriate medium; intended audience; delivery methods; and digital video formats. The production process will be explained, and tools for production will be outlined. Various formats will be demonstrated and examples of instructional video in use at the Eccles Health Sciences Library will be shown.
Speaker: Nancy Lombardo, Systems Librarian, Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Audience: Academic, Public Librarians
Sponsor: Academic Library Section
Tracks: Serving Adults & Select Populations; Technology; Collections & Reference
Thursday, May 2, from 4pm to 5pm
The ARL Scholar's Portal: What? Why? and When?
The Scholars Portal - a work in progress - has been described as a discovery tool, which would provide scholars with rapid access, through cross-platform searching, to relevant print, multimedia, and digitized information. Sarah Michalak, Director of the Marriott Library, University of Utah and member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Scholars Portal Working Group, is the speaker. She will describe the genesis of the concept, provide a working description, and discuss plans for the future.
Speaker: Sarah Michalak, Director, Marriott Library, University of Utah
Audience: Academic Librarians; Public Librarians who serve students, faculty, and academic staff
Sponsors: ACRL Round Table; Academic Library Section; Reference and Adult Services Round Table
Tracks: Serving Adults & Select Populations; Technology; Collections & Reference
Friday, May 3, from 2:45pm to 3:45pm
Authority Control in a Nutshell (Part One)
This two-hour session is a condensed, simplified version of the preconference on Authority Control that will cover the history, philosophy, and theory of authority control, why it is important, how it can be applied to all types of databases and metadata, general costs, outsourcing, how to interpret an authority record, how to research and construct headings, how to justify authority control to doubtful administrators, and a short introduction to cooperative cataloging programs.
Speaker: Rachel L. Wadham, Name Authorities Librarian/NACO Coordinator, Brigham Young University
Audience: All Librarians
Sponsors: Technical Services Round Table; Academic Library Section
Tracks: Technology & Trends; Other (Cataloging/Technical Services)
Friday, May 3, from 3:45pm to 4:45pm
Authority Control in a Nutshell (Part Two)
This two-hour session is a condensed, simplified version of the preconference on Authority Control that will cover the history, philosophy, and theory of authority control, why it is important, how it can be applied to all types of databases and metadata, general costs, outsourcing, how to interpret an authority record, how to research and construct headings, how to justify authority control to doubtful administrators, and a short introduction to cooperative cataloging programs.
Speaker: Rachel L. Wadham, Name Authorities Librarian/NACO Coordinator, Brigham Young University
Audience: All Librarians
Sponsors: Technical Services Round Table; Academic Library Section
Tracks: Technology & Trends; Other (Cataloging/Technical Services)
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