2008 Annual Meeting Information
Workshops, Programs, Meetings

(Updated 7/12/2008)

Page Index

Acquisitions Standing Committee Meeting and Acquisitions Roundtable
Ad Hoc Committee on Professional Development
Amazing Technical Services: the Director's Cut (Workshop)
Business Meeting and Awards
Cataloging & Classification Roundtable
Cataloging & Classification Standing Committee Meeting
Chesapeake Project: One Model for Digital Preservation (TS-SIS Program)
Classification and Subject Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group Meeting
Demystifying Batch-Load Analysis: What You Need to Know About Vendor-Supplied Bibliographic Records (OBS-SIS Program)
Descriptive Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group Meeting
Education Committee Meeting
Encore, Enterprise, Primo and WorldCat Local: Explore the Evolving Discovery Tools for Your Catalog (Program A-5; OBS-SIS)
Energize Personnel in the Library: Managing Difficult and Change-Resistant Staff Members (TS-SIS Program)
Executive Board Meeting, 2007/2008 (outgoing)
Executive Board Meeting, 2008/2009 (incoming)
Explore the Effective Use of Cataloger's Desktop and Classification Web (Program J-2)
Explore the Effective Use of Classification Web (Program K-2) (merged with Program J-2)
Exploring Relevancy Ranking Systems in Search Engines on the Web and in our OPACs: What They Are--How They Work (Program E-5)
Future of Subject Access in the 21st Century (Program G-3)
Heads of Cataloging in Large Libraries Roundtable
Hot Topic Program: Technical Services and the Three R's: Reinventing, Restructuring, and Renewing (TS-SIS)
Immerse Yourself: Swim, Don't Sink--Introduction to Law Cataloging (Workshop)
Joint Research Grant Committee Meeting (OBS-SIS and TS-SIS)
Management Issues Roundtable SEE Technical Services Management Issues Roundtable
Membership Committee Meeting
New Catalogers Roundtable
OCLC/RLIN Committee Update (OBS-SIS)
OCLC/RLIN Roundtable (OBS-SIS)
Preservation and Binding Committee Roundtable
Preservation Standing Committee Meeting
Rare Book Cataloging Roundtable
Role of Print Repositories in an Electronic Age (TS-SIS Program)
Research Roundtable (OBS-SIS and TS-SIS)
Serials Standing Committee Meeting
SIRSI/Dynix Law Users Roundtable (OBS-SIS)
Special Committee on Record Sharing (OBS-SIS)
Task Force on Standards for Vendor-Supplied Bibliographic Records Meeting
Technical Services and the Three R's: Reinventing, Restructuring, and Renewing (TS-SIS Hot Topic Program)
Technical Services Management Issues Roundtable
Thinking Outside the Box: How Developing Electronic Serial Standards Can Add Fiber to Your Library's Diet (Program H-2)
TS/OBS/RIPS/CS-SIS Joint Reception
TSLL Board Meeting
Voyager Law Users Roundtable (OBS-SIS)
Website Advisory Roundtable
Yikes! What's in this Box? Managing Archive Collections (Workshop)

Meeting/Program Locations:

OCC = Oregon Convention Center

Acquisitions Standing Committee Meeting and Acquisitions Roundtable

Monday, July 14, 2008 — 7:00-8:30 a.m.
OCC, Room B115

For those who would like to attend the Acquisitions Committee and/or Roundtable meetings – this year, during the 2008 annual conference, we're going to try something new. In order to help reduce the number of meeting conflicts, the Acquisitions Committee will hold its meeting, followed immediately by the Acquisitions Roundtable in the same room. An agenda for both meetings will be available at a later date, but if there are topics you would like to see addressed, please contact Ajaye Bloomstone, Acquisitions Standing Committee Chair at LLAJAYE [at] LSU.EDU

Ajaye Bloomstone, Chair, Louisiana State University

Ad Hoc Committee on Professional Development

Saturday, July 12, 2008 — 4:30-5:30 p.m.
OCC, Room A101

Amazing Technical Services: the Director's Cut (Workshop)

Saturday, July 12, 2008 — 12:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. (Registration and boxed lunch beginning 11:45 a.m.)
OCC, Rooms C120-122

This workshop will update library administrators on 21st century technical services tools and solutions to a wide array of library issues including assessment, acquisitions, and information access functions. Information will be provided and delivered in a variety of models in a fast-moving, interactive format. The workshop also will permit time and a space for library administrators to focus on these new and enhanced solutions through dialog, demonstrations, and discussion with time to reflect on their place and impact for individual libraries missions and needs.
Separate registration fee required.

Billie Jo Kaufman, Co-coordinator and Speaker, American University, Washington College of Law, Pence Law Library
Carol Avery Nicholson, Co-coordinator and Moderator, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law Library
Keynote Speaker: James Michalko, OCLC Online Computer Library Center
Aspirin for Administrative Headaches: Judith Wright, University of Chicago; Patricia Sayre-McCoy, University of Chicago; Stephen P. Weiter, New York State Appellate Division
Twelve Tools in Twelve Minutes: Janice Synder Anderson, Georgetown University
Collection Development Tools: Margaret K. Maes, University of St. Thomas; Douglas Lind, Southern Illinois University; Stephen P. Weiter, New York State Appellate Division
Energize, Explore, Evolve — Getting It Done in Technical Services (small group breakout sessions)
Session Reports & Wrap-up
Skits will be presented by: Rhea Ballard-Thrower, Howard University; Billie Jo Kaufman, American University; Douglas Lind, Southern Illinois University; Brian D. Striman, University of Nebraska

Business Meeting and Awards

Sunday, July 13, 2008 — 5:30-6:30 p.m.
OCC, Room F149

Alan Keely, TS-SIS Chair, Wake Forest University
- Get the Business Meeting Agenda

Cataloging & Classification Roundtable

Monday, July 14, 2008 — 5:30-6:30 p.m.
OCC, Room B113

Jean M. Pajerek, Chair, Cornell University Law Library
Agenda:
- Continued discussion about the "Future of Subject Access in the 21st Century" (see Program G-3 below); Barbara Tillett and Lois Mai Chan will join the discussion).

Cataloging & Classification Standing Committee Meeting

Monday, July 14, 2008 — 7:00-8:30 a.m.
OCC, Room F149

Jean M. Pajerek, Chair, Cornell University Law Library
Agenda:
- Announcements (5 minutes)
- Representatives' reports
  - ALA ALCTS CCS Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) + Task Force on Inherently Legal Subject Headings — Yael Mandelstam (15 minutes)
  - Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information (MARBI) — George Prager (15 minutes)
  - Cataloging and Classification Section: Description and Access (CC:DA) — Kathy Winzer (15 minutes)
- Working group and Task group reports
  - Task Group on Standards for Vendor-supplied Bibliographic Records — Angela Jones (10 minutes)
  - Classification and Subject Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group — Chris Tarr (10 minutes)
  - Descriptive Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group — Ann Sitkin (5 minutes)
- LC Update — Jolande Goldberg (15 minutes)

The Chesapeake Project: One Model for Digital Preservation (TS-SIS Program)

Sunday, July 13, 2008 — 4:15-5:15 p.m.
OCC, Room B114

The Chesapeake Project is a two-year pilot program that is a collaborative venture of the Georgetown Law Library, the Maryland State Law Library and the Virginia State Law Library . Established at the beginning of 2007 with OCLC's Digital Archive, its goal is to preserve and ensure permanent access to legal information currently available on the World Wide Web. The intention is to establish the beginnings of a regional digital archive collection of legal materials as well as a sound set of standards, policies, and best practices that have the potential to serve as a model for the future realization of a nationwide digital preservation program. Representatives from each library will report on progress to date and give individual perspectives.

Sarah Rhodes, Facilitator, Georgetown University Law Library
Steve Anderson, Maryland State Law Library
Gail Warren, Virginia State Law Library
Download program handout (929 KB PDF)

Classification and Subject Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group Meeting

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 — 7:30-8:45 a.m.
OCC, Room A109

Demystifying Batch-Load Analysis: What You Need to Know About Vendor-Supplied Bibliographic Records (OBS-SIS Program)

Monday, July 14, 2008 — 4:00-5:15 p.m.
OCC, Room E146

The availability of vendor-supplied bibliographic records for batch-loading into our local catalogs presents new challenges: How should my library evaluate the quality of vendor-supplied MARC records before acquiring them? What role can the TS-SIS Task Group on Vendor-Supplied Bibliographic Records play in this process? This program will introduce ways to use readily available tools to analyze batches of MARC records. It will help libraries that have purchased access to packages such as MOML, LLMC, BNA, CIS, WLX, etc. and are considering how to provide access to them through their catalogs. Co-sponsored by TS-SIS.

Ellen McGrath, Coordinator, University at Buffalo
Kevin Butterfield, Moderator, College of William and Mary
Yael Mandelstam, Fordham University
Download Batch-Load Analysis program handout (1.8 MB PDF)

Descriptive Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group Meeting

Monday, July 14, 2008 — 12:00-1:15 p.m.
OCC, Room D138

Education Committee Meeting for 2009 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Monday, July 14, 2008 — 12:00-1:15 p.m.
OCC, Room A109

Karen B. Douglas, Chair, Duke University School of Law Library

Encore, Enterprise, Primo and WorldCat Local: Explore the Evolving Discovery Tools for Your Catalog (Program A-5)

Sunday, July 13, 2008 — 1:30-2:45 p.m.
OCC, Portland Ballroom 254

Each panelist discusses: How one search box leverages their library service and changes the role of their OPAC, and what they like about their system and what needs to be improved to make the system even better.

Keiko Okuhara, Coordinator and Moderator, University of Hawaii Law Library
Mary Jane Kelsey, Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library (Innovative Interfaces Encore)
Debra Moore, Cerritos College (SirsiDynix Enterprise Portal Solution (EPS))
Julie Loder, Vanderbilt University (Ex Libris Primo)
Richard M. Jost, University of Washington Gallagher Law Library (OCLC Worldcat Local)

Energize Personnel in the Library: Managing Difficult and Change-Resistant Staff Members (TS-SIS Program)

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 — 2:45-4:00 p.m.
OCC, Room F149

This program is designed to address difficult staff members and library teams that are resistant to change. Topics discussed will include: how to recognize a problem with staff and/or co-workers and the various ways to resolve the problem; the effects that personnel problems (both positive and negative) can have on library workflow and services; motivation techniques for staff and colleagues; how to attract and retain good library personnel; and the "how, when and why" of employee dismissal. The speakers will address from personal experience how Library Science programs can better prepare library students for real-world management positions after graduation.

Executive Board Meeting, 2007/2008 (outgoing)

Saturday, July 12, 2008 — 5:30-7:00 p.m.
OCC, Room A101

Alan Keely, 2007/2008 TS-SIS Chair, Wake Forest University

Executive Board Meeting, 2008/2009 (incoming)

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 — 4:15-5:15 p.m.
OCC, Room C126

Linda Tesar, 2008/2009 TS-SIS Chair, Alyne Queener Massey Law Library

Explore the Effective Use of Cataloger's Desktop and Classification Web (Program J-2)

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 — 2:45-4:00 p.m.
OCC Portland Ballroom 255

Do you use Cataloger's Desktop or Classification Web? Are you interested in learning tips and tricks to use either product more effectively? Are you interested in learning more about the features these products offer? Bruce Johnson will provide tips for effectively using Cataloger's Desktop, as well as provide a preview of how it will evolve in the future. Cheryl Cook will provide tips for the most effective use of Classification Web, as well as highlight significant new features due for release in 2008 and 2009. Co-sponsored with OBS-SIS. (This program was originally scheduled as two separate programs, J2 and K2 in the annual meeting program book.)

Bruce Johnson, Cataloger's Desktop Development Team Leader and Librarian and Cataloger, Library of Congress
» Download handouts
Cheryl Cook, Classification Web Product Manager and Library Services Specialist, Library of Congress
Karen Selden, Coordinator, University of Colorado Law School, William A. Wise Law Library

Explore the Effective Use of Classification Web (Program K-2)

(merged with Program J-2)

Exploring Relevancy Ranking Systems in Search Engines on the Web and in our OPACs: What They Are--How They Work (Program E-5)

Monday, July 14, 2008 — 9:45-10:30 a.m.
OCC, Portland Ballroom 254

Co-sponsored with CS-SIS and OBS-SIS.

The Future of Subject Access in the 21st Century (Program G-3)

Monday, July 14, 2008 — 4:00-5:15 p.m.
OCC, Portland Ballroom 252

When released in early 2006, Karen Calhoun's report The Changing Nature of the Catalog generated a firestorm of controversy with its comments about the large and growing number of students and scholars who routinely bypass library catalogs in favor of other discovery tools. Among other recommendations, the report urged in part that the Library of Congress (LC) dismantle its long-used Subject Headings (LCSH), the largest and most comprehensive controlled vocabulary in the world. While LC has subsequently stated its intention to retain these popular subject headings, it will be announcing new applications for LCSH and classification throughout the coming year. Dr. Barbara Tillett, Chief of the LC Cataloging Policy and Support Office, will describe the transformations to subject access that LC has implemented, and those that it is contemplating in the near future. Dr. Lois Chan will explore theoretical and practical alternatives to LCSH, and describe the effects those alternative systems have on the user's ability to locate library resources.

Heads of Cataloging in Large Libraries Roundtable

Sunday, July 13, 2008 — 12:00-1:15 p.m.
OCC, Room B117

Hot Topic Program (TS-SIS): Technical Services and the Three R's: Reinventing, Restructuring, and Renewing

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 — 10:45-11:45 a.m.
OCC, Room F149

Every department goes through change, and technical services is no different. Recent news about an increasing amount of technical services departmental restructuring in academic libraries has been piquing interest across the country. While some libraries have created more hierarchy in their management structure, others have opted for a flat organization. Their choices and changes in library practice have left many librarians wondering about the future of their jobs and how restructuring changes the role of the technical services librarian. During this panel discussion, our panelists will go into detail about what motivates departmental restructuring in real life situations. They will share advice on how to know when to restructure as well as how to help staff through the transition. There will also be plenty of time for questions.

Barbara Garavaglia, Assistant Director, University of Michigan Law Library
Paul Lomio, Director, Robert Crown Law Library, Stanford University
Edward T. Hart, Acquisitions and Serials Librarian, University of Florida Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center

Immerse Yourself: Swim, Don't Sink--Introduction to Law Cataloging (Workshop)

Friday, July 11 and Saturday, July 12, 2008 — 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
OCC, Room C124

A two-day workshop designed to introduce the newer law cataloger to the often complicated world of cataloging legal literature. Sessions will be taught by experts in legal cataloging, and will cover description of legal materials (beginning and advanced), legal subject headings, Library of Congress classification of legal materials, cataloging legal serials (beginning and advanced) and integrating resources. The workshop will culminate in a free-wheeling panel discussion by our experts on the Future of Bibliographic Control.
Separate registration fee required.

Friday: Sessions on Introduction to the cataloging of legal materials, Legal subject headings, Classification of legal materials and Introduction to legal serials cataloging.
Saturday: Sessions on Advanced description of legal materials, Legal serials cataloging continued, Cataloging of legal integrating resources, and Panel discussion on the Future of Bibliographic Control.

Richard Amelung, Professor of Legal Research and Associate Director of Saint Louis University Law Library, member of the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control;
Melody Lembke, Director, Collection Management Services, Los Angeles County Law Library;
Kathleen Padgen, Senior Law Cataloger, Law Library of Congress;
Jean Pajerek, Head of Technical Services and Information Management, Cornell University Law Library
Marie Whited, Cataloging Law Liaison, Law Library of Congress

Joint Research Grant Committee Meeting (OBS-SIS and TS-SIS)

Saturday, July 12, 2008 — 5:15-6:15 p.m.
OCC, Room B119

Membership Committee Meeting

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 — 7:30-8:45 a.m.
OCC, VIP Suite (D)

New Catalogers Roundtable

Sunday, July 13, 2008 — 12:00-1:15 p.m.
OCC, Room C122

The New Law Catalogers Roundtable for those new to the profession, and is designed as an open forum to discuss the issues, challenges, and intricacies of being a cataloger in a law library setting. All aspects of cataloging are fair game for discussion. If you just want to verify you're approaching an issue correctly, if you're looking for alternative ways of doing things, or just looking for the whys and the wherefores of legal cataloging, any question is welcome! "Veteran" catalogers are encouraged to attend as well!

Dan Blackaby, Facilitator, Western State University College of Law
Agenda:
- A review/evaluation of the W-1 workshop: Swim, Don't Sink: Immerse Yourself in Law Cataloging. This is your opportunity to speak on what you feel were the highlights, lowlights, and things that can be improved about the workshops, plus to attempt to clarify what went on during Friday and Saturday!
- Discussion of the new LAW CATALOGERS RESOURCE DATABASE, a suggested project for the TS-SIS in which a central repository/forum will be constructed to help clarify and elucidate the various issues of law library cataloging.
- General discussion of issues facing new catalogers — The floor will be open for questions about any law cataloging topic, from cataloging integrating resources to how you count titles for the ABA's AQ to what impact RDA will have on law library cataloging.

OCLC/RLIN Committee Update (OBS-SIS)

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 — 9:30-10:30 a.m.
OCC, Room D140

Glenn Patton, Director of OCLC WorldCat Quality Management Division
Topics:
- General OCLC/RLIN updates.
- Institutional Records (IRs)
  Focuses on: batch load, how OCLC uploads locally edited bib records and replaces existing institutional records in the OCLC master file.
- OCLC's Digital Archive product.
- Updates on Worldcat Local.
- Questions and answers.
Ming Lu and Keiko Okuhara, OBS-SIS OCLC/RLIN Committee Co-chairs

OCLC/RLIN Roundtable (OBS-SIS)

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 — 10:45-11:45 a.m.
OCC, Room A107

Phyllis Post, Head of Technical Services, Capital University Law Library
Topics:
- Report on the OCLC Council meetings in October 2007 and February 2008.
Ming Lu and Keiko Okuhara, OBS-SIS OCLC/RLIN Committee Co-chairs

Preservation Standing Committee Meeting and Preservation and Binding Roundtable

Monday, July 14, 2008 — 10:45-11:45 a.m.
OCC, Room D137

Janice Anderson, Chair, Georgetown University Law Library
Roundtable Agenda:
- Mary Grenci, Interim Head of Metadata & Digital Library Services at the University of Oregon Libraries, will speak at the Preservation Roundtable on the details of putting law journals into institutional repositories. In particular, she will address what Technical Services librarians, especially catalogers, can do to make this go smoothly, with the dual goal of providing open access and preserving institutional output. In May, the Harvard Law School faculty unanimously voted to make each faculty member's scholarly articles available online for free, making Harvard the first law school to commit to open access. The University of Oregon routinely archives two of their law journals in their repository. Come to the Roundtable and hear the voice of experience talk about integrating journals into repositories.
  - View presentation slides

Rare Book Cataloging Roundtable

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 — 12:00-1:30 p.m.
OCC, Room D133

Sarah Yates, Coordinator, University of Minnesota Law Library
Agenda:
- The formation of the Rare Materials Descriptive Cataloging Task Group. The Task Group will assist the Bibliographic Standards Committee (BSC) of ALA's Rare Books and Manuscripts Section in the compilation of two handbooks of cataloging examples to accompany Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) (2007) and Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Serials) (forthcoming). These compilations of examples are still in the planning stages but will likely be similar in format to Examples to Accompany Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books (1999). Specific tasks of the Task Group will be determined in consultation with the BSC and will likely include:
  - Identifying special characteristics, other than subject matter, that are common among rare legal books and serials and perhaps less common among rare materials in general;
  - Finding examples of specific books and serials with these special legal characteristics to illustrate descriptive cataloging rules in DCRM(B) and DCRM(S);
  - Cataloging these examples according to DCRM(B) or DCRM(S) rules;
  - Providing facsimile copies of relevant pages from these books and serials (usually the title page and sometimes additional sources of information) to the BSC; and
  - Providing copies of the catalog records to the BSC.
  The Task Group will make a first round of submissions to BSC in December 2008 for discussion at ALA's midwinter meeting and a second round of submissions in June 2009 for discussion at ALA's annual meeting.
  
  If you would like more information about the Rare Materials Descriptive Cataloging Task Group, especially if you will be unable to attend the Roundtable, please contact Sarah Yates at yates006 [at] umn.edu.
- Discussion of the state of rare and special collections cataloging operations in law libraries.
  Who is doing rare book cataloging? How much of catalogers' time is spent on rare and special collections? What other responsibilities do rare book catalogers have? Who has the ultimate responsibility for rare book cataloging?
- Other agenda items.
  Have you been working on an interesting project that you’d be willing to share with the group? Do you have questions for the group? Contact Sarah Yates at yates006 [at] umn.edu to be added to the agenda.
- Open discussion.
  Time permitting, we'll open up the floor for whatever topics attendees would like to discuss.

Research Roundtable (OBS-SIS and TS-SIS)

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 — 7:00-8:45 a.m.
OCC, Room D135

The Role of Print Repositories in an Electronic Age (TS-SIS Program)

Sunday, July 13, 2008 — 3:00-4:00 p.m.
OCC, Room B114

The Legal Information Preservation Alliance was established to address the potential disaster that would follow from discontinued availability of online resources, for whatever reason. Since the 2005 San Antonio meeting, the Print Archival Network concept has been evolving as the result of deeper consideration by stakeholders and input from the community in general. This program will explore crucial issues such as: Must the print repositories be intended for non-retrieval, or would deposit into a retrievable but demonstrably extremely low-use open storage area serve the same purpose? What is the current status and planned expansion of the LIPA collaboration with the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC)? Guidelines for institutional participation will also be discussed.

Carmen Brigandi, Coordinator, California Western School of Law

Kent McKeever, Columbia Law School Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Jerry Dupont, Law Library Microform Consortium
Download program handout (478 KB PDF)

Serials Standing Committee Meeting

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 — 7:30-8:45 a.m.
OCC, Room D133

Carol Avery Nicholson, Chair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kathrine R. Everett Law Library
Agenda:
- Project Counter Subcommittee
- LLJ Centennial Article project
- Exchange of Duplicates program
- Changes to the ABA Questionnaire
- 2009 Program Proposals
- Project ideas for 2008-09

SIRSI/Dynix Law Users Roundtable (OBS-SIS)

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 — 12:00-1:30 p.m.
OCC, Room E144

Special Committee on Record Sharing (OBS-SIS)