Webinar: Cataloging: Where are we now? Where are we going?

Wow, I feel like I hit pay dirt. Here's a link to the College of DuPage Press webinar that I really wanted to see:

Cataloging: Where are we now: Where are we going?

Broadcast date: Friday, February 19, 2010

Presenters: Renee Register and Karen Coyle

Librarians are justly proud of their accomplishments in organizing the world’s published information through the use of standard subject headings and the ubiquitous, demanding MARC record. But, with the explosion of more information stored electronically, are our old standards still relevant today? Has keyword trumped the subject heading? Librarians also see their roles changing as more information description and metadata production are handled by other professionals. Will online tagging or vendor descriptions diminish the need for librarians? Questions are rife on what exactly are the thrust of RDA and the new AACR2?

Renee Register, Senior Product Manager at OCLC and Karen Coyle, noted consultant and leader in the area of digital libraries will review current cataloging practices and discuss the future of metadata, the MARC record, the Resource Description and Access standard, and the librarian's place in online information organization and access.

This teleconference is 90 minutes in length--Noon to 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

h/t Library Information Technology Blog

Comments

[Bryan]

I was hoping someone would post a link to this. Thanks.

[Christine Schwartz]

Hi Bryan,

You're welcome. I watched it last night. It was excellent. Both Renee Register and Karen Coyle were able to articulate so well our current cataloging milieu and where we need to go.

Thinking of watching it again and will definitely order Karen's new Library Technology Reports.

[Bryan Campbell]

Christine,

I see many positive developments here. Perhaps now we can seriously contemplate a retrospective correction of the damage caused by the the rule of three. I mean, if the publishers have the data, then OCLC can take the names, for example, and add them to existing records as enrichments.