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Traveling Through Trends in
Technical Services
Karen Calhoun will explore the trends in library technical
services--unrelenting budget pressure, the complex and changing context
for metadata management, and the sometimes strident debate about the
future of cataloging.This session
will be broadcast as a videoconference in various locations. Please
choose your location on the registration form.
*Register Now*
Full, Associate, Participant members: no charge
Non-members: $50.00
This session is part of the MLNC
Speakers Series. In
the event of over-registration, MLNC reserves the right to limit
the number of attendees from a given institution.
| 7/16/2008 |
Springfield |
Springfield-Greene County Library
The Library Center |
9:00am - 11:30am |
Schedule: 9:00 – 9:30 Coffee and visiting, 9:30 –
11:00 Speaker, 11:00 – 11:30 Questions and discussionAudience:
Staff from MLNC member libraries interested in technical
services trends.
Presenter:
Karen Calhoun, Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata
Services
Karen Calhoun joined OCLC in May 2007 as Vice President,
OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services. Active professionally in research
and as a speaker, Karen was principal investigator for The Changing
Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools, a
Library of Congress-commissioned study on the future of the catalog. The
report, released in March 2006, challenged assumptions about the
traditional library catalog and proposes new directions for the research
library catalog in the digital era.
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