Forwarded on behalf of the CRCC Chair – Please join us for a
lively program!
-Jennifer
Jennifer B. Young
Serials Catalog Librarian
Northwestern University Library
847.491.8978
ALCTS CRCC Member
Apologies for duplication as this goes out (late! apologies
for that, too)
to multiple lists.
The
ALCTS CRS Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee (CRCC)
invites
all catalogers & serialists to a
Forum
at ALA Annual in Washington, DC on Monday, June 28, in
Washington
Convention Center (WCC) Room 145A, from 1:30-3:30pm
There
will be brief updates from representatives of the ISSN Center,
the
Library of Congress and CONSER Program, and CC:DA,
followed
by a special program on the Testing of RDA records for serial resources.,
Featured
guests will include
Tina
Shrader, a representative from the National Agricultural Library
on
the Task Group coordinating the official testing;
Renette
Davis (University of Chicago), to share thoughts on
preparing
staff for testing RDA;
and
Robert Bremer of OCLC, to field questions on
the
impact of RDA-compliant records on OCLC WorldCat.
CRCC
Chair-designate (2010/2011) Jennifer Young (Northwestern)
will
lead a brainstorming Q & A session on how interested catalogers
and
institutions might participate in RDA testing of serial records
and
provide feedback to one another and to the official test partners.
Christopher H. Walker
Serials Cataloging Librarian
126 Paterno Library
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802-1812
(814) 865-4212
Co-Chair, ALCTS CRS Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee