National Library of Australia

Describing resources in a web services world

National Library of Australia, Canberra
Thursday 21st October 2010

Program

Time Presentation
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:35 Introduction
Ebe Kartus, Chairperson ACOC
9:35-10:30

Keynote address
David Lindahl - Co-Executive Director, eXtensible Catalog Organization

10:30-11:00 Morning tea
11:00-11:30 Cataloguing in a discovery layer world – ‘one box to rule them all’
Karen Stone - Manager, Database Services / Resource Discovery (SLQ)
11:30-12:00

Making the most of your metadata, and cataloguing in a web services world
Monika Szunejko - Manager, Access (SLWA)

12:00-12:30 From container to context: how cataloguers can drive a fundamental and necessary change in resource description
Kent Fitch - Programmer (NLA)
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00 Resource Description and Access - implementation update
Deirdre Kiorgaard - Director, Serials Collection Management & Standards Branch (NLA)
2:00-3:00

Lightning sessions – 20 minutes talks about new things being done in cataloguing
Irma Birchall, CALYX information essentials, Koha and Kete Implementations and Services
Sharron Zuodar, Infrastructure & Metadata Services Coordinator, University of South Australia Library
Brad Cummings, Manager, Music Acquisitions and Cataloguing Unit and Australian ISMN Agency, National Library of Australia

3:00-3:30 Afternoon tea
3:30-4:00

Standards update
Catherine Argus - Manager, Bibliographic Standards & Training (NLA)
Anne Robertson - Australian representative, Editorial Policy Committee of the Dewey Decimal Classification

4:00-4:30 RDA Q&A session
ACOC members
4:30 Seminar closes