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• (04/24/2003) Committee on Cataloging to present a technical session on metadata at the Annual Conference, New York, June 9, 2003  (Location updated)  (New!)
  
• (04/24/2003) Committee business meeting at the Annual Conference, New York, June 9, 2003(Location updated) (New!)
• (04/24/2003)  Technical Standards Committee to present a technical session on Standards Updates and the Special Librarian (please mark your calendar!) (New!)
• (04/20/2003) ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access publishes new article on The Future of AACR (New!)
• (04/20/2003)  Reports from ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (New!)
  

Metadata Standards: what's new & how will they impact your work
Monday, Jun 09, 2003 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM  Location: Marriott,  Room: Salon B & C

Sponsors: Technical Standards Committee, Committee on Cataloging, Division of Information Technology

Level: Intermediate

As information technologies evolve, metadata standards have become widely accepted in organizing information resources of both print and non-print. The most noticeable standards activities include Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standards (METS) and METS’ extension schema Metadata Objec Description Schema (MODS). METS schema is designed to encode descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata for objects within a digital library using the XML schema language. MODS is an extension of METS in the form of XML schema for descriptive metadata that uses MARC definitions, so is compatible with existing library bibliographic data. By using the new XML technologies, METS and its extension schemas are bridging AACR2 and MARC with the new technology to make it easier and more effective for the cataloging and management of informationresources. Do you want to know how these standards will impact your work? Come to this session to find out more!


Speakers:
Overview of metadata standards: Marcia L. Zeng, Kent State University
METS: Jerome McDonough, New York University
MODS: Rebecca Guenther, Library of Congress 

Sponsor: Inmagic, Inc.

SLA Committee on Cataloging Business Meeting
Monday, June 9, 2003, 3:30PM - 5:30PM  Location:  Location: Marriott,  O'Neill

Committee on Cataloging annual business meeting.

Audiences: Open to all SLA members
Moderator(s):
Jian Qin , School of Information Studies, Syracuse University

Standards Updates and the Special Librarian
Tuesday, June 10, 2003 3:30PM - 5:00PM  Location: Hilton,  Hudson Suite

Difficulty Level: Basic
Audience: All attendees

This popular annual session covers the activities in standards and what activities are in progress that will affect special librarianship in the workplace. Speakers will provide an update on the activities in NISO, the NISO's international counterpart, and W3C, as well as newly proposed and
in-progress standards. In particular, this year the standards to be introduced or progress to be reported in the session include DOI (Digital Object Identifier), ONIX (Online Information exchange), Z39.29, the Standard for Bibliographic References, U.S. National Z39.50 Profile for Library
Applications, Web-enabled Z39.50, OpenURL, and standards for Networked Reference Services.

Moderator: Marcia L. Zeng, Kent State University
Speakers:
Pat Harris, Executive Director, National Informations Standards Organization
Margie Hlava, President, Access Innovations, INC
David Sidman, CEO, CONTENT DIRECTIONS, INC.