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The ALCTS
CaMMS
Cataloging
Norms
Interest
Group (CNIG)
seeks speakers
to present
at the ALA
Midwinter Conference to be held
in Atlanta
on
Saturday, January 21st,
2017, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM.
The Cataloging
Norms
Interest
Group
offers
a forum
for the
exploration, communication,
and
exchange of
ideas
and
best
practices
on the
dynamics
of cataloging/metadata
norms
and
workflows
in the
hybrid environment.
Presentation
topics
should
be
of current
interest
to
catalogers, cataloguing
managers
and
administrators,
and
be
approximately
15-20
minutes
in
length. Additional
time
will
be
allowed for
questions
and discussion.
Our MidWinter meeting’s theme is
"Best Practices
for Digital Repositories" and potential
topics may
include (but are not limited to):
· Metadata application in digital repositories;
· Archiving, curating and preserving special and cultural heritage collections;
· Linked data implementation in or related to digital repositories;
· Research data, datasets and digital repositories;
· Implementing guidelines and standards for digital repositories;
· Metadata choices in digital repositories and in the traditional library environment;
· Support open data and open scholarship using digital repositories;
· Assessment of content and impact in digital repositories;
· Use metadata and data to improve digital repository services;
· Issues, challenges and opportunities in cataloging in digital repositories.
Please
email
proposal
abstracts to
co-chairs
Jessalyn Zoom (jiwu@loc.gov)
and Sai Deng (sai.deng@ucf.edu)
by
Friday, November 11th,
2016.
If
you
have questions,
please contact
us. We look
forward
to hearing
from you!
ALCTS
CaMMS
Cataloging
Norms
Interest
Group
Sai Deng and Jessalyn Zoom, Co-Chairs
Elizabeth Bridges
and Debra Skinner, Co-Vice Chairs