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***Call for proposals – deadline Monday, October 28, 2013***
The ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging & Classification Research Interest Group is seeking proposals for presentations at its 2014 ALA Mid-Winter meeting in Philadelphia, PA. The meeting will be on Sunday, January 26, 2014, from 10:30 am–11:30 am. The theme of the meeting will be “Cataloging in mixed metadata environment”. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• Research on user contributed metadata (such as folksonomies, tagging, keyword contributions)
• Research, surveys or studies on discovery layer catalogs
• Research on cataloging using multiple schema, formats, and standards
• Research on best practices in non-book cataloging for a new generation catalog
· Research on alternatives to the MARC format
• Research on cataloging of non-traditional materials in RDA environment
Full presentations should be about 15 minutes long. Audience questions and discussion will be encouraged after the presentations. Brief 5 to 10 minute summaries of less extensive projects or research in progress will also be considered.
Email proposals by Monday, October 28 to Nastia Guimaraes (aguimara@nd.edu).
Please include:
• Presentation title
• A brief (1 page or less) summary of the focus of the proposed presentation
• Stage of project completion by January 2014
• Amount of time needed to make the presentation
• Names and positions of presenter(s)
• Email address(es) of presenter(s)
We look forward to hearing from you!
CCRIG Chair 2013/14
Nastia Guimaraes
Head, Batch Processing, Data Support, and Metadata Services
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
CCRIG Vice-Chair 2013/14
Enerel Dambiinyam
Assistant Professor and Cataloging Librarian
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN
CCRIG Vice-Chair 2013/14
Rachel Jaffe
Metadata and Catalog Librarian
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY