OLAC 2002

10th ConferenceSuzanne C. Pilsk

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

OLAC 2002

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Electronic and Media Cataloging for the 21st

Century

May you live in interesting times

Ancient Chinese Saying…

We DO live in interesting times…

And it keeps getting

OLAC 2002

Curiouser and Curiouser…

OLAC 2002

•NACO / AV Funnel Project

•Electronic Journal Workshop

Pre-Conference Workshops

Cecilia GenereuxSCCTP ElectronicSerial Cataloging

SCCTP : ElectronicSerial Cataloging

• Review of what to expect with ejournals

• Aggregator issues

• Hands on examples

• Unexpected/surprises one might see

SCCPT

Pre-Conference Workshops

E. Anne CaldwellNACO-AV Funnel Project

NACO

• Trained 8 new catalogers

• Award Winning!

NACO

Registration

Registration

Attendance

Lucy I. Oducado

Keynote Address

Jean Weihs:

Media Cataloguer’s Long Journey to the Twenty First Century

Jean Weihs

Conference Presentation

Charles F. Thomas:Images: Metadata Sharing Initiative at the U of MN

Chuck Thomas

Detailed overviewof the project -trying to get people and projects together

Workshops

Bobby Ferguson’s Cataloging Realia Beginners and Advanced

Realia

Realia

Realia

Workshops

Rob Freeborn’sCataloging DigitalSound Files: Chapters 6 and 9

Digital Sound

Workshops

Donald Clay Johnson’sCreating annotationsfor non-bookmaterials

Annotations

Future is longer than the past

Workshops

Jane Johnson’s: Cataloging Moving Image Materials

AMIM

Workshops

Mary Lynette Larsgaard’sMap Cataloging

Cartographic Materials

Workshops

Steve Miller’sCataloging ElectronicResources: Chapters9 and 12

Electronic Resources

Workshops

Nancy Olson’s:Cataloging GraphicMaterials

Graphic Materials

Workshops

Jay Weitz’s:VideorecordingsCataloging Workshop

Videorecordings

DO NOT AGONIZE

Cookie Break

Three Hour Cruise

Three Hour Cruise

Poster Sessions

Business Lunch

Afternoon Meetings

OLAC 2002

LibQUAL+

• ARL libraries

• Measured gaps between minimum, desired and perceived service etc.

LibQUAL+LOW RATINGS!

• Access to information• Complete runs of journal titles• “Personal control”• Making electronic resources

accessible from home or office• Modern equipment for accessing

information

LibQUAL+LOW RATINGS!

• Library website enabling me to locate information on my own

• Easy to use access tools that allow me to find things on my own

LibQUAL+Low Ratings!

Library staff when rating

Minimum Desired Perceive

rated themselves

REAL REAL LOW

Doing More than is Needed?

Forcing Material to Fit

We Came To Learn

Work With What We Got

Just when you thinkYou know what you Have in your hand…

It turns out to be somethingdifferent

We have the knowledge

• Some of us don’t realize how much we really already know

• Certain rules we know the importance and the impact

• Other rules we need to begin to think outside the box

We have the knowledge

• Rules and Standards and their importance

• Impact on the patron

• The importance of access

Search Gone Bad!

Over Our Heads… (Almost)

Rule Changes

• The rules really do change

• We really can make an impact on those changes

Lobster’s Quadrille

Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you will you join me in the dance?

Lobster’s Quadrille

OLAC• Can• Should• Has• Will

Let them hear our voice

Them?

Us!

Rule Makers

Rule Makers !