The future of cataloging: a Palinet symposium

I've been invited to be on the response panel for The Future of Cataloging: A Palinet Symposium that will be held at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia on May 29th. The keynote speaker will be Karen Calhoun. I'm really excited about attending this symposium and participating in the conversation in a different context (outside the comfort of the blog). Here's more information:

The Future of Cataloging: A PALINET Symposium
Thursday, May 29, 2008, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

[Update: the link for registration.]

Program Agenda

Keynote Address

• Karen Calhoun, Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services, will present an overview of the current state of cataloging and the future direction of bibliographic control.

Response to Keynote Address Panel Discussion

• Beth Picknally Camden, Goldstein Director of Information Processing, University of Pennsylvania
• Diane Hillman, Research Librarian, Cornell University and Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)/Resource Description and Access (RDA) Task Group
• Christine Schwartz, Metadata Librarian, Princeton Theological Seminary

Hot Topics - featured presentations from cataloging practitioners

• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Current Development and Implementation Plans for Resource Description and Access (RDA)--John Attig, Monograph Cataloging Librarian, Penn State University
• The Significance of the Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control--Nancy Fallgren, University of Maryland Libraries Digital Access/Metadata Librarian, Johns Hopkins University and Consultant to Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
• The Impact of Cataloging Developments on Hidden Collections--Christine Di Bella, Archivist and Project Director, PACSCL Consortial Survey Initiative, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
• The Role of Integrated Library Systems (ILS) and Next Generation Catalogs--John Ockerbloom, IT Senior Project Leader, University of Pennsylvania

Break-out discussion groups with the featured speakers will follow each presentation.

Summary and Closing Remarks

• M. Dina Giambi, President-Elect, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association and Assistant Director for Library Technical Services University of Delaware Library

Comments

[arkham]

Wow. Too bad it's in Philadelphia. I don't think I could arrange to be there this close to the symposium. Karen Calhoun, Diane Hillman and Christine Schwartz? That'd be worth being there for. I hope you'll post an account, or a link to one. The other presentations look interesting, too.

[nan]

While you're there you should check out the mutter museum (http://www.collphyphil.org/mutter.asp). Although probably not right after lunch.

[filminfo]

And people keep telling me to try the Philly cheese steak (probably not right after lunch either). Any idea if there are original cataloging libraries in the area, that wouldn't mind showing the MARC21 work in progress and sharing some tacit knowledge? As we are exploring in the Netherlands the move to MARC and RDA, it would greatly benefit me (and convince me that 24 hours on a plane is not too much for just a 1 day symposium :)).

[arkham]

Ah, MAY 29th. For some reason, I read it as MARCH.

In that case, maybe I can make it there (and I'd love to get a chance to see the Mutter while I'm there...). I'll have to see if I can get approval for t the trip - seeing as it's only 1 day and is going to actually require a flight.