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ALCTS webinar: Using FAST for Faster Workflows and Discovery

Sponsored by the Faceted Subject Access Interest Group

Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2016

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.

Description: This webinar demonstrates how the FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) vocabulary can be implemented across a range of library functions and services -- both at the back and the front of the house. Two projects serve as case studies for understanding how libraries can harness the FAST vocabulary and related tools to streamline metadata work and improve user experiences. The webinar provides audience members with ideas and talking points for applying FAST at their institutions.

Specific learning outcomes include:

-- New strategies for streamlining metadata workflows and improving metadata quality by empowering catalogers to concentrate on subject analysis techniques rather than tools.

-- Understanding of guided search interfaces and their importance to exploratory research

-- Empowerment to dig into the assignFAST gadget's code and customize it for local application

Who should attend?

Managers and members of library cataloging and metadata, and user experience and Web development departments

Presenters:

Joelen Pastva is the Metadata Librarian at the Galter Health Sciences Library at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. She currently serves on the ALCTS Standards Committee, ILA Best Practices Committee, and Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) Technical Services Committee. She previously worked as the Metadata/Catalog Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests include ontology development and improving library user experiences through metadata.

Allison Jai O'Dell is Metadata Librarian at the University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries. She serves on the editorial teams of the ARLIS/NA Artists' Books Thesaurus and the RBMS Controlled Vocabularies. Her research, creative, and instructional activities focus on linked data technologies and front-end Web development for libraries and archives.

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Registration Fees:  ALCTS Member $43 ; Non-member $59 ; Group rate (members/non-members) $99/$129 ; International $43   

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to the following website:

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/092816

ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or alctsce@ala.org.

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.