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16 COGNOTES JUNE 2015 PREVIEW
Products Hot Off the Press and Special Events at the ALA Store
Located just outside the Exhibits, the ALA Store offers products that meet the widest range of your promotional and continuing education/professional development needs — as well as fun gift items. Make sure to carve out some time in your schedule to stop by and examine the many new and bestselling items available!
ALA Store hours
Friday, June 26 12:00-5:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 27 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sunday, June 28 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Monday, June 29 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
ALA Graphics will feature a number of popular posters, bookmarks, and promotional materials, including the conference debuts of a new Batgirl poster, the GLBT Book Month Poster, and the 2015 Banned Books Week t-shirt. And stop by early to get your pick of conference t-shirts — they sell out fast!
ALA Editions and ALA divisions are excited to offer several new titles hot off the press, such as The Weeding Handbook: A Shelf-by-Shelf Guide, by Rebecca Vnuk; the new third edition of Assessing Service Quality: Satisfying the Expectations of Library Customers, by Peter Hernon, Ellen Altman, and Robert E. Dugan; and The Handbook for Storytellers, by Judy Freeman and Caroline Feller Bauer.
Remember that you can now find titles from ALA Neal-Schuman and Facet Publishing in the ALA Store. You can also get free shipping on all book orders placed in the ALA Store (posters, bookmarks, and other gift-type items are not eligible for this offer).
Stop by the ALA Store to learn more about eLearning products, as well as take part in live demos of RDA Toolkit.
Prices at the ALA Store automatically reflect the ALA Member discount, so there's no need to dig out your member number. And remember that every dollar you spend at the ALA Store helps support library advocacy, awareness, and other key programs and initiatives!
Untangle Your Metadata and Formats with ALCTS
The expert presenters in this year's ALCTS preconferences will tackle aspects of managing metadata and wrangling formats during the Annual Conference in San Francisco.
“Real World Linked Data: What Does It Take to Make It Work?” Beyond technology, what is required to successfully implement linked data? Join us to explore ontology design and data modeling in the real world and learn about the people, processes, metrics, and even the technology needed to succeed. Friday June 26, 8:30 a.m. — 4:00 p.m. Get more details and register at http://tinyurl.com/alcts15-linked.
“Coding for Efficiencies in Cataloging and Metadata: Practical Applications for Library Data.” Concrete examples and hands-on exercises for practical applications of coding with library data. Session topics include XML and XSLT for streamlining and scaling up metadata and cataloging workflows; RDF/XML for serializing MODS-RDF and BIBFRAME; XQuery for extracting, manipulating, and constructing library metadata; and PyMARC for accessing and manipulating MARC records. Bring a computer for coding and questions for group discussion. Thursday June 25, 8:30 a.m. — 4:30 p.m. Get more details and register at http://tinyurl.com/alcts15-code.
“Managing Streaming Digital Content for Academic Libraries.” Bring your challenges with streaming media services and look at them in light of new issues and trends in streaming media acquisition, management and licensing. Selection, collection development, acquisition models, issues in acquisitions and workflow management, delivery systems and platforms, standard licensing models and scenarios for various types of digital media, distribution rights, and emerging digital resources will all be covered. Friday, June 26, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Get more details and register at http://tinyurl.com/alcts15-stream.
“Video Demystified: Cataloging with Best Practical Guides.” Learn to catalog video recordings, in formats such as streaming video, DVD, and Blu-ray, using RDA, MARC21, and OLAC best practices cataloging guides through presentations and hands-on exercises. We will address special materials such as filmed performances of dance, music, and theatre and older video formats. Friday June 26, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Get more details and register at http://tinyurl.com/alcts15-video.
“Cataloging Special Formats for the Child in All of Us.” Get practical information on the descriptive cataloging of children's materials using RDA and MARC21. Hands-on exercises will include tools and documentation that support cataloging with RDA. Video recordings, sound recordings, video games, three-dimensional objects, kits, books with accompanying material in a special format, games, and two-dimensional materials such as pictures and flash cards will all be covered. Thursday, June 25, 8:30 a.m.—5 p.m. Get more details and register at http://tinyurl.com/alcts15-kids.
United for Libraries to Present “Citizens Save Libraries: Rounding Them Up and Showing Them How”
United for Libraries will present “Citizens Save Libraries: Rounding them Up and Showing Them How!” on Friday, June 26 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. at the Hotel Nikko, Mendocino in San Francisco. Add this to your schedule now.
This special workshop will provide in-depth training on how to create an advocacy campaign, and give the basics for helping to train others as well. Library directors, state library development staff, trustees and consultants are invited to attend to learn how to work with local library supporters for specific advocacy campaigns, and/or to enhance existing advocacy skills.
Speakers will include Pat Schuman, past ALA president; Sally Reed, executive director of United for Libraries; Kate Park, executive director of the Friends of the Dallas (Texas) Public Library, and Sara Myers, executive director of the Long Beach (Calif.) Public Library Foundation.
In 2013 and 2014, United for Libraries provided advocacy training to 20 libraries in the U.S. that had troubled budgets, thanks to a $75,000 grant from the Neal-Schuman Foundation. The Friends of the Dallas Public Library and the Long Beach Public Library Foundation both received two days of training, and in turn ran successful campaigns for increased funding. Schuman and Reed will teach attendees how to run their own winning campaigns, and Park and Myers will share their experiences as leaders, including advice, challenges and lessons learned.
This workshop will make use of the Citizens Save Libraries Power Guide for Successful Advocacy (www.ala.org/united/powerguide).
This workshop is co-sponsored with the Office for Library Advocacy and ASCLA.
For more information on purchasing tickets and other United for Libraries events and meetings at the ALA Annual Conference, visit www.ala.org/united/events_conferences/annual.
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