ALCTS Serials Cataloging Institute (Mitch Turitz) Ann Ercelawn 10 Oct 1995 21:48 UTC
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 14:05:06 -0700 From: Mitch Turitz <turitz@SFSU.EDU> Subject: ALCTS Serials Cataloging in the Age of Format Integration This past weekend, Oct. 6-7 in San Francisco, ALCTS gave its first serials cataloging institute in 10 years (2nd if you include the Atlanta one just a few months ago, which was a part of this). It was a huge success with 125 people attending. It included serials cataloging lectures and practicum for both beginners and advanced catalogers; a public services perspective of using serials records; breakout sessions on: cataloging remote access serials; cataloging legal serials; cataloging CD-ROMs and floppy disks; and common sense cataloging for your local system. While it will not be possible to re-create the entire cataloging institute here, I WILL be posting the FORMAT INTEGRATION AND SERIALS talk that was given by Jean Hirons, of the Library of Congress (there were numerous requests for copies of it right after she gave the talk). I have her permission to reproduce it here and I will do so after she returns from her honeymoon (how's that for dedication - she postponed her honeymoon to do her presentation for ALCTS!). so watch this space! Personally, I would like to thank everyone involved in putting this institute together: Crystal Graham of UCSD; Maureen Landry of the Library of Congress; Kristin Lindlan of the University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Jean Hirons of the Serial Records Division of the Library of Congress; Rhonda Lawrence of the Law Library at UCLA; Regina Reynolds of the National Serials Data Program at the Library of Congress; Our local panelists: Liz Ginno of CSU Hayward; Juliann Rankin of CSU Chico; Brian Schottlaender of UCLA. I would also like to thank Elizabeth Steinhagen of CSU Humboldt and Yvonne McLean of ALCTS/ALA for all the behind-the-scenes stuff which made the institute seem so flawlessly organized. -- Mitch _^_ _^_ ( ___ )-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-( ___ ) | | | | | | Mitch Turitz, Serials Librarian | | | | San Francisco State University Library | | | | Internet: turitz@sfsu.edu | | | | | | ( ___ )-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-==-( ___ ) V V "Outsourcing is a desperate remedy for management failure, not the criticism of catalogers." -- Michael Gorman, "Crisis in Subject Cataloging and Retrieval" June 25, 1995, ALA Conference, Chicago