OLAC Conference Scholarship

OLAC will award two Conference Scholarships that will provide funds for a member of Online Audiovisual Catalogers to attend the OLAC/MOUG 2010 Conference in Macon, Ga., October 15-17, 2010.

Eligibility:
Any personal member of OLAC who has never attended an OLAC Conference is eligible for the OLAC Conference Scholarship.

Award Description:
The award amount will cover reasonable estimated costs for registration, lodging, travel, and meals up to $1,000.

Conditions/Requirements:
The recipient must confirm in writing that he or she will attend.  The recipient must attend the full conference, including the business meeting where the award will be announced, and the recipient must write a brief report for the OLAC Board indicating what he or she gained and found to be most helpful in his or her work. The scholarship will be awarded after the conference in the form of a reimbursement for expenses.

Applicants must include a completed application form (below), a current resume, and a cover letter describing why the applicant wishes to attend the Conference, how the receipt/non-receipt of the scholarship will influence his or her ability to attend the conference, and potential applications to his or her present and future job responsibilities.

Application Deadline
The application and supporting materials must be received no later than Friday July 2, 2010.  The award will be announced no later than July 15, 2010.

E-mail your application (form below) and supporting materials to: Bobby Bothmann

The 2010 OLAC Conference Scholarship committee is Katie Eller (2008 recipient, St. Louis County Library), Debbie Benrubi (OLAC Outreach Coordinator, Univ. of San Francisco) and Bobby Bothmann (OLAC Past President, Minn. State Univ., Mankato).

2010 OLAC CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION FORM (Please enter your information and print the form or type/print neatly)

Name: (First MI Last)
Mailing Address:
Country:
Daytime telephone:
Email address:
Place of employment:
Position title:
Personal member of Online Audiovisual Catalogers since:
Brief description of job responsibilities/related nonprint involvement/experience:

Submitted by:
Robert Bothmann
OLAC Past President, OLAC Conference Scholarship Committee member

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OLAC 2010 - Call for Poster submissions

Poster sessions at OLAC 2010 are scheduled for Saturday, October 16, 8:00-9:30 a.m.

Floor easels and foam boards (20 x 30 inches and 30 x 40 inches) will be available.  Small tables for literature can be supplied if requested.

To apply, submit the following information:

    * A brief (maximum 200 words) description of your topic;
    * Names and affiliations of participants;
    * Mailing address, email address, and phone number of the primary contact person.

Applications may be submitted by email or postal mail, and they must be received by July 1. Participants will be notified by August 1.

Submitted by:
Julie Huskey
2010 OLAC Conference Planning Committee Chair

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NMP announces new NMP Coordinator

The NACO-Music Project (NMP) Advisory Committee and the Music OCLC Users Group are pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Scharff (Washington University in St. Louis) to the position of NMP Coordinator.

Mark has a long history with NMP, having been an independent contributor since 1991 and a reviewer of other participants since 1994.  He has also served on the NMP Advisory Committee both as a regular member and as Chair.  His interest in music cataloging and authority control has led him into service on several Music Library Association committees and American Library Association interest groups over the past two decades.  Recently, as the MLA liaison to ALA's Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA), he has provided extensive verbal and written responses to RDA drafts and LC proposals about RDA.  Most of these responses were adopted as ALA positions.  He is currently a beta tester for the RDA Toolkit software.  His extensive involvement in NMP and in the broader cataloging community makes him well-placed to take on this new challenge, and we are very happy to welcome Mark in his role as NMP Coordinator.

Submitted by:
Ann Churukian
Chair, NMP Advisory Committee

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Library of Congress documentation for the RDA Test

The Library of Congress is sharing its files of policy decisions, training materials, etc., developed for its participation in the US RDA Test.  Other libraries, whether participating in the RDA Test or not, are welcome to use and modify these files for their local situations.

Note that these files represent decisions just for the RDA Test.  If the Library of Congress decides to implement RDA, some of the decisions may be changed as the result of feedback from the Test.

The files are posted at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdatest.html

Questions about the content of RDA and LC's documents for the US RDA Test should be sent to LChelp4rda@loc.gov

Submitted by:
Judith A. Kuhagen
Senior Descriptive Cataloging Policy Specialist Policy and Standards Division Library of Congress

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Cartography genre/form headings at LC

In early 2007 the Library of Congress began a project to create genre/form headings, which describe what a work is rather than what it is about. To date, over 500 headings for moving images (films, television programs, and video recordings) and sound recordings have been approved.
 
Two years later, in 2009, the Policy and Standards (PSD) and Geography and Maps divisions of the Library of Congress began work on the next genre/form project to go into production: cartographic materials. PSD will be approving new cartographic genre/form headings (MARC 21 tag 155) and revised form subdivisions ($v) in stages over the late spring and summer of 2010, and plans to implement the new system no earlier than August 1, 2010. Be advised that LC will not implement any aspect of the cartographic genre/form headings until all of the elements are in place.

A tentative timeline for the approval of the cartographic genre/form headings, the revisions to the form subdivisions, and LC’s subsequent implementation of them is available on PSD’s web site at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/cartographic3.pdf.  

Additional information on the genre/form projects at the Library of Congress can be found on PSD’s genre/form web page, http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genreformgeneral.html.  The page includes a timeline, an extensive FAQ, reports, discussion papers, and announcements.  Questions and comments on the projects may be addressed to Janis L. Young, LC’s genre/form coordinator, at jayo@loc.gov.

Submitted by:
Janis L. Young
Policy and Standards Division
Library of Congress