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Wesley Centre, Sydney 25 July 2003
Clayton Bolitho
Biographical Information
Clayton Bolitho has worked as the cataloguing librarian at La Trobe University, Bendigo, for the last twelve years after graduating from Ballarat University in 1991. Apart from cataloguing, Clayton has a keen interest in website development and HTML, being an active member of the library web team. Clayton is also heavily involved with the AARLIN Project and was a valuable contributor to the AARLIN Pilot Project in 2001-2002.
Abstract of Presentation
The ClayGate project began in 1997 largely as a personal experiment to develop a way of providing access to internet resources using the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Since then it has grown considerably in size and has become a significant gateway to internet resources for staff and students of La Trobe University, generating approximately 300 to 400 hits per day. This paper describes the project, its aims, and what can be achieved with only minimal resources.
Leonie Bourke
Biographical Information
Leonie Bourke is currently SCIS Database Manager, Curriculum Corporation. SCIS is the Schools Catalogue Information Service, which provides a centralised database of bibliographic and authority records for Australian, New Zealand and international schools. Until 1996 Leonie worked with CAVAL Limited as Cataloguing Services Coordinator, with responsibility for training, contract cataloguing services and the Victorian ABN Users' Group. Leonie has been a member of the ABN Standards Committee, a designated training agent for ABN, Ozline and Kinetica and has participated in various cataloguing and database maintenance projects, including serials, music and special collections cataloguing projects.
Abstract of Presentation
The Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT) is a collaborative venture involving Curriculum Corporation, The Le@rning Federation and education.au limited. The aim is to develop a thesaurus of subject terms to describe online curriculum content in the Australasian K-12 education sector. The presentation will focus on the standards underpinning the thesaurus and the modular building block approach chosen for its development. The question of why it was decided to develop a new thesaurus rather than adapt the existing SCIS subject headings will be discussed. The collaborative framework in which ScOT is being developed will also be briefly outlined.
Allison Kingscote
Biographical Information
Allison Kingscote is a librarian in the Mitchell Library in Sydney. Within the State Library of New South Wales she has gained experience in the Mitchell Reading Room, government monographs and Infoquik indexing. She currently coordinates the APT part-time and also works in the Original Materials Branch cataloging pictures materials and digitised images.
Abstract of Presentation
The Australian Pictorial Thesaurus is a free, web-based, specialist subject thesaurus for indexing Australian documentary heritage images and objects. The APT was launched in January 2001 and is now approximately two years old. This paper will be an introduction to the APT, explaining its background, operational management structure and day-to-day operations. Future directions will be considered and some closing comments will be made in the context of the conference theme.
Barbara Lewincamp
Biographical Information
Barbara Lewincamp is the Library Director at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra. She has worked in the Tasmanian Education Department and in a number of special libraries in Canberra.
Abstract of Presentation
In 1998, AIATSIS purchased an integrated collection management system. Part of the systems implementation was the data conversion and migration of more than 7 separate databases across a range of item types including photographs, manuscripts, sound recordings, films and microforms. All these databases were mapped into US MARC format, and migrated to the new system. This paper will describe the process of developing authority files for the wide range of subject codes, geographic codes, gazetteer grid references, free text key words, language names, and language group names.
Joan Mitchell
Biographical Information
Joan S. Mitchell is editor in chief of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system. Ms. Mitchell has been closely affiliated with the DDC since 1985, when she became a member of the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee. Ms. Mitchell chaired the committee from 1992 until her appointment as Dewey editor in 1993. Ms. Mitchell has been a member and/or chair of various committees working in the fields of cataloging and classification in the American Library Association. She recently completed work as the chair of the IFLA Working Group on the UNIMARC Classification Format. She also serves on the editorial board of Knowledge Organization, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of International Society for Knowledge Organization. Prior to joining OCLC, Ms. Mitchell was director of educational technology at Carnegie Mellon University and an adjunct professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. She has also held various positions in technical and public services in academic and special libraries. Ms. Mitchell has written and spoken extensively in the area of knowledge organization. She has a B.A. cum laude in economics from Newton College and an M.L.S. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Abstract of Presentation
DDC 22, the new edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification system, will be published in print and electronic versions in July 2003. This edition, perhaps more than any before, has been shaped by the needs and recommendations of DDC users around the world. DDC 22 includes substantial updates to several disciplines and many new numbers and topics across the system. The new edition also features some fundamental structural changes that have been introduced with the goals of promoting classifier efficiency and improving the DDC for a variety of uses in the web environment. The role of the print edition is in transition with respect to the role of its electronic counterpart, WebDewey. The DDC itself is in transition in response to current and emerging needs for an up-to-date knowledge organization tool that represents concepts in a language-independent system. Australian librarians have an important role in shaping the future of the DDC.
Judith Pearce
Biographical Information
Judith Pearce is Director, Web Services at the National Library of Australia. She manages the Library's web site and has been instrumental in the development of a number of the Library's web-based services.
Abstract of Presentation
Catalogues help users to find information but first they have to find the catalogue! At the National Library of Australia users consistently direct queries for books and journal articles to our Site Search. Shortly we will be implementing a new version of the web site that will actively exploit this behaviour to draw users into the catalogue and expose them to other key information resources. This paper will look at how the new "OneSearch" works, the extent to which it has simplified access to the catalogue and what problems still remain to be solved.
Anne Robertson
Biographical Information
During a career as a Librarian spanning over 25 years, Anne has worked in most areas of librarianship, but primarily in cataloguing. She has had considerable experience with all aspects of cataloguing, and has been involved with, and managed major automated catalogue conversion projects at the State Library of Queensland. Anne has a particular interest in classification, and has worked with at least 4 editions of Dewey, plus the literature numbers from Edition 14, and has run workshops on various parts of the Classification from time to time. She has worked as Senior Cataloger, Principal Librarian, Cataloguing, Manager, Cataloguing, then with the amalgamation of Cataloguing with Acquisitions as Manager, Technical services at the State Library of Queensland. She now works independently as a training and project management consultant.. Anne is the Australian Representative on the Dewey Decimal Editorial Policy Committee, originally selected to replace Giles Martin, now working as an Assistant Editor for OCLC.
Abstract of Presentation
The official function of the Editorial Policy Committee is " to provide advice in determining the direction and policy of the Dewey Decimal Classification", and it does, but there is another, lighter side to developing Dewey, so come along and find out How to Torment Assistant Editors, Why I had a Severe attack of Mathematics Anxiety , The Mystery of the Lost Gavel, Discussing Dewey with a Spook at Midnight, Ending up in the Emergency Room, Where do you classify Pantomime?, Losing my Notes, in Los Angeles, Why the EPC matters, and how you too can Make a Difference.


