National Library of Australia

Beyond the OPAC : future directions for Web-based catalogues

Perth Convention Exhibition Centre
Monday 18th September 2006

Program

Time Presentation
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:35 Welcome and opening
Ebe Kartus, Chairperson ACOC
9:35-10:30 Beyond the OPAC : future directions for web-based catalogues
Martha Yee, Cataloguing Supervisor, UCLA Film and Television Archive
(Chair: Ebe Kartus)
10:35-11:00 Morning tea
11:00-11:30 The well connected catalogue
Patricia Scott, Denise Tobin and Helen Attar, University of Adelaide
(Chair: Ebe Kartus)
11:30-12:15

Setting a new standard : Resource Description and Access (RDA)
Deirdre Kiorgaard (ACOC)

The potential impact of RDA on OPAC displays
Ann Huthwaite and Philip Hider (ACOC)

12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00 OPACs and the real information marketplace : why providing a mediocre product at a high price no longer works
Lloyd Sokvitne, Senior Manager (Digital Strategies), State Library of Tasmania
(Chair: Philip Hider)
2:00-2:30 Seeding search engines with data from the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD)
Tony Boston, Assistant Director General, Resource Sharing, National Library of Australia
(Chair: Philip Hider)
2:30-3:00 Applying FRBR to library catalogues : a review of existing FRBRization projects
Martha Yee, Cataloguing Supervisor, UCLA Film and Television Archive
(Chair: Philip Hider)
3:00-3:30 Afternoon tea
3:30-5:00

Managing OPACs : approaches to the process of OPAC change and development (panel discussion)
Lisa Billingham, Innopac Systems Librarian, Edith Cowan University Library
Del Shiers, Manager, Collection Services, Murdoch University Library
David Wells, acting Resources and Access Librarian, Curtin University Library
Shane White, Coordinator, Database Standards and Quality Control, and OPAC Coordinator, UWA Library.
(Chair: Rob Walls)

5:00 Seminar closes