NETSL Annual Spring Conference Program 2010 April 15 College of The Holy Cross
The New England Technical Services Librarians are holding their annual spring conference called Crosswalks to the Future: Library Metadata on the Move on Thursday, April 15, 2010 at the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts 9:30am-3:30pm
Morning Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Barbara B. Tillett, Chief, Policy and Standards Division, Library of Congress
“Building Blocks for the Future: Making Controlled Vocabularies Available for the Semantic Web”
Afternoon Keynote Speaker:
Jon Orwant, Engineering Manager for Google Books, Google Magazines, and Google Patents
“Creating a Trillion-Field Catalog: Metadata in Google Books”
Breakout Sessions:
Managing Objects and Data: from Call Numbers to Namespaces
Mapping Bibliographic Metadata
Tradition, Transition, and Transformation: A Look at Next Generation Library Systems
Metadata 101
Go fish! How to catch and clean MARC records using Z39.50 and MarcEdit
Another full service bibliographic utility for cataloging: why this matters
Cost:
NETSL/NELA Member $50.00
Nonmember $75.00
Currently unemployed/Student $25.00
Registration includes lunch. Deadline in Friday April 2, 2010
For more info:
http://www.nelib.org/netsl/conference/2010/index.htm
Posted by Rich
