May 14-15, 2013
Hosted by Jennifer Erica Sweda and Sylva D. Hall-Ellis
Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It's free and
open to everyone!
Registration information is at the end of the message.
Each day, discussion begins and ends at:
Pacific: 7am - 3pm
Mountain: 8am - 4pm
Central: 9am - 5pm
Eastern: 10am - 6pm
*Description*
Catalogers and technical services departments are now
fully immersed in training for Resource Description and Access. While some
libraries may have resources to bring in external trainers, many organizations
are taking on the training challenge in-house. Do you have the necessary
training skills and creative techniques to overcome challenges related to your
organization's training and preparation for RDA? Come and share your
experiences and swap ideas with others managing or participating in their
organization's RDA training efforts.
The e-forum will cover the training needs for those
performing original *and *copy cataloging, as well as those who handle and
create records outside of cataloging departments. Topics will include: deciding
which staff positions need what level of RDA training, creating/customizing training
materials and documentation, identifying in-house trainers, balancing strain on
personnel (both in terms of time and expertise), and evaluating results.
We intend for this to be a productive dialog involving
catalogers at all levels, technical services librarians, and managers, to help
us learn how to teach ourselves and our staff how to create and incorporate the
increasing number of RDA records that populate national and local databases.
*Jennifer Erica Sweda, *MS, LIS (UIUC); MLA (UPenn), has
been Social Sciences Cataloging Librarian for the University of Pennsylvania
Libraries (Philadelphia, Pa.), for almost 20 years. She contributes
bibliographic
(BIBCO) and name/subject authority (NACO/SACO) records
through LC's Program for Cooperative Cataloging, and is a trainer for LC's
Basic Subject Cataloging Using Library of Congress Subject Headings workshop.
She has presented research at the American Library Association and Association
for Information Science and Technology conferences, and has contributed an
article to Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front (ed. K.R. Roberto). Her
professional interests have grown to include teaching and training (both inside
and outside of libraries) and she is currently coordinating Penn Libraries' RDA
training efforts.
*Dr. Sylvia D. Hall-Ellis*, MLS (North Texas), PhD
(Pittsburgh) has been teaching cataloging for more than 15 years. A member of
professional organizations and listed in several editions of regional and
national bibliographic volumes, she is active in ALCTS and served as a voting
member of CC:DA for four years. Her research focus is competencies and
technical skills for catalogers. She has published numerous technical reports,
articles, and five monographs and has conducted major field-based research
studies. She has more than 40 years of experience working in libraries as an
administrator, development officer and project manager. Dr. Hall-Ellis is the
Senior Grants Administrator for the Morgridge College of Education at the
University of Denver.
*What is an e-forum?*
An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians
to discuss matters of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum
discussion list. The e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv:
register your email address with the list, and then you will receive messages
and communicate with other participants through an email discussion. Most
e-forums last two to three days. Registration is necessary to participate, but
it's free. See a list of upcoming e-forums at: http://bit.ly/upcomingeforum.
*To register:*
Instructions for registration are available at: http://bit.ly/eforuminfo.
Once you have registered for one e-forum, you do not need
to register again, unless you choose to leave the email list. Participation is
free and open to anyone.
