Submitted for Ann M. Sandberg-Fox:
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ANNOUNCES BICENTENNIAL CONFERENCE
ON BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Last month, the Library of Congress marked its bicentennial anniversary
as the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and the world’s
largest library. As part of the activities planned to commemorate this
historic event, the Library will host a 2 l/2-day invitational
conference on “Bibliographic Control for The New Millennium: Confronting
the Challenges of Networked Resources and the Web.”
The conference will be held Nov. 15-17, 2000, at the Library of
Congress and is intended to provide a premier forum for authorities in
the cataloging and metadata communities to discuss outstanding issues
involving the bibliographic challenges of providing description and
access to networked resources on the Web. The focus of the conference
is on an open discussion of the issues with primary attention to
proposed solutions and development of action items for the Library of
Congress to pursue in its cataloging leadership role.
Following introductory remarks by Winston Tabb, Beacher J. Wiggins, and
John Byrum, Michael Gorman will deliver the Keynote Address on “From
Card Catalogs to WebPACs: Celebrating Cataloging in the 20th Century”.
Topics and panel discussions will then be presented in five main
sessions, which reflect the problem-solving approach of the conference:
( 1 ) Sarah Thomas, Tom Delsey, Priscilla Caplan will examine the
library catalog in the context of the Web, with commentaries by Brian
Schottlaender, Jennifer Trant, and Robin Wendler; (2) Matthew Beacom,
Lois Mai Chan, William Moen, and Barbara Tillett will assess current
library and metadata standards for bibliographic control and Web access,
with commentaries by Glenn Patton and Diane Vizine-Goetz.; (3) Ann
Huthwaite, Sally McCallum, Carl Logoze, Linda Arret, and Carolyn
Larson will address actions and plans for the future direction of
these standards and of other mechanisms designed to advance description
and access to networked resources, including the descriptive resource
needs of reference providers, with commentaries by Lynne Howarth and
Paul Weiss; (4) Jane Greenberg and Karen Calhoun will examine the
results of particular metadata and workflow experiments and
initiatives; (5) Michael Kaplan with a panel comprising Lynn Connaway,
Jeff Calcagno, and Amira Aaron and Regina Reynolds in a separate paper
will conclude the presentations by exploring potential partnerships
among the library, metadata, and vendor communities that will foster the
development of new or expanded Web-based projects. Thereafter the
conference participants will be divided into break-out groups to
identify recommendations to form an action plan and an overall strategy
which will be discussed and approved by the Conference in its
concluding plenary session.
Invited participation in the conference is necessarily limited by space
considerations and by the nature of the event as a working meeting.
For this reason and to allow for broader participation, papers will be
submitted in advance and, beginning in mid-July, they will be made
available for consultation on the World Wide Web. In addition, an
electronic discussion list will be established at that time to
facilitate discussion of these papers before the conference is
convened. Also to promote more comprehensive involvement by the
community, the conference organizers are planning to videotape the
proceedings and cyber-cast them shortly after presentations are made.
Finally, following the conference, the presentations and commentaries
will be compiled for publication in early 2001.
For further information regarding the program and speakers and for
abstracts of their papers, please visit the conference home page at:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/
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Mary S. Woodley, Ph.D.
Social Sciences Librarian
California State University, Northridge
Northridge CA 91330-8328
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voice (818) 677-2261 fax: (818) 677-4928
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