ALCTS
offers exciting Midwinter symposium for San Diego
Chicago
– Dynamite topics and great speakers come together in San Diego for an
outstanding symposia from the Association for Library Collections &
Technical Services. On Thursday, you’ll hear about RDA, its impact on
libraries and how it might affect the future catalog. Join your colleagues for
this exciting and timely symposium from ALCTS on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 just
before the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego.
The
Administrator, RDA and the Future Catalog: Issues, Viewpoints, Alternatives
Thursday,
January 6, 2011
8:30am-5:00pm
RDA
is on the horizon. How will you implement it? What are the issues you need to
pay attention to? Staffing? Budget? The catalog itself? Will RDA influence the
future catalog? What might the future catalog be? This one day symposium
examines the issues surrounding implementation of RDA and the future catalog.
If you’re a director, assistant director or department head or anyone
interested in the impact of RDA, you don’t want to miss this discussion.
Speakers
include Tim Strawn, Director, Information Resources & Archives, California
Polytechnic State University -San Luis Obispo; Olivia Madison, Dean of the
Library, Iowa State University; Linda Barnhart, Head of Metadata Services,
University of California – San Diego;
Molly
Tamarkin, Associate University Librarian for Information Technology, Duke
University;
Tim
Bucknall, Assistant Dean for Electronic Resources and Information Technology,
University of North Carolina – Greensboro; and Chris Cole, Associate
Director for Technical Services, National Agricultural Library
To
attend, registration is $219 for ALCTS members, $269 for ALA members, $319 for
non-members, and $99 for students and retired members. Registration
information for the ALCTS Midwinter symposia can be found on the ALA Midwinter
Meeting page.
http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/midwinter/meetings/index.cfm#alcts
Please
note that you do not have to register for ALA Midwinter in order to attend the
symposium.
For
more information consult the events page on the ALCTS web site at www.ala.org/alcts or contact Julie Reese,
ALCTS Events Manager, at jreese@ala.org.
Posted
on behalf of ALCTS.