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Room capacity has been reached and registration for the Spring 2012 NOTSL meeting has closed. If you would like to be placed on the waiting list, please email the NOTSL Treasurer.

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Thank you for your (overwhelming!) interest in RDA is Coming: How Ready are You?

NOTSL (Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians) is pleased to present a program focusing on preparation for RDA implementation. The Library of Congress, and other national and international libraries, will fully implement Resource Description and Access (RDA) as the replacement for AACR2 on March 31, 2013. The Library of Congress has issued a long range training plan for 2012, which outlines the steps it will be taking to train and prepare their staff for this change. While a select group of libraries participated, either formally or informally, in the RDA test in Fall 2010, many libraries have done very little to prepare their staff and adjust their workflows for incorporating RDA. The goal of this NOTSL workshop is to make libraries aware of the current national plans for RDA implementation and to help them begin their own preparation process. Our speakers will focus on topics such as the current status of preparation for RDA at the national library level, the issues surrounding staff training and workflow planning for RDA implementation, and will offer an in-detail examination of the impact of RDA on cataloging audio-visual materials.

Complete program information is available online here.

NOTSL will hold its spring meeting on Friday, April 27, 2012.  Our topic is: “RDA is coming.  How ready are you?”

Our keynote speaker will be Chris Oliver, Coordinator of Cataloguing and Authorities, McGill University, former Chair of the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing, current Copy Editor for RDA, appointed by ALA Publications and charged with revising RDA wording to make it understandable.   Chris is also the author of “Introducing RDA: a guide to the basics.”

We are also very pleased to be able to present Peter Lisius, Music and Media Catalog Librarian, Kent State University Libraries. Peter will discuss RDA for cataloging music and A-V materials.

Our third speaker is Erin Stalberg, Director of Discovery and Access at Mt. Holyoke College, former Head of Metadata and Cataloging at North Carolina State University.  Erin will focus on managing change, and training for RDA.

Registration will available on Wednesday, March 14th.

Tammy Troup
$500 Jane Myers Scholarship
Tammy is a Clerical Assistant at Akron Summit County Public Library and plans to use the money to help pay for a Metadata cataloging workshop at KSU in the spring of 2012.

Shadi Shakeri
$500 Jane Myers Scholarship
Shadi is an international student at KSU and would like to use the money to pursue a career in cataloging.

Melissa Hill
$500 NOTSL Scholarship
Melissa is working at The Ohio State University as a volunteer and would like to use the award to take a KSU cataloging and classification course in the spring of 2012.

Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians (NOTSL) will hold its Spring Meeting on Friday, April 27, 2012. The meeting will center on the topic of the current status of RDA, its revision, and implementation. The keynote speaker will be Chris Oliver, Coordinator of Cataloguing and Authorities, at McGill University Library. Ms. Oliver is the current Chair of the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing and has been a member of the Committee since 1997. She served as a member of the Joint Steering Committee’s Format Variation Working Group and as Chair of the RDA Outreach Group. Ms Oliver is the author of: Introducing RDA: a Guide to the Basics, published by ALA Editions in 2010. In November 2011, Ms Oliver was appointed by the Co-Publishers of RDA as Copy Editor to improve the readability of parts of RDA.

The meeting location and additional speakers have yet to be confirmed. Registration will be available in early March 2012. Please watch your mailbox for further information.

Registrations will be accepted through December 2nd.

Complete program information is available online here and the registration form is available online here.

Registrations are now being accepted for the NOTSL Fall 2011 meeting, Coming to Terms with Genre/Form Access.

How can we make it easier for library users to find materials such as music, movies, video recordings, cartographic materials, and fiction? Resource discovery and access for library users is the primary objective of the “cataloging process”. When new opportunities emerge for libraries to improve discovery and access for their patrons, libraries should respond and take advantage.

Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians (NOTSL) is pleased to present a program on Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms. Speakers include Janis L. Young (Cataloging Policy Specialist, Policy and Standards Division, Library of Congress), Karen Anderson (Authority Control Librarian at Backstage Library Works), and Paige G. Andrew (Associate Librarian at the Pennsylvania State University Libraries).

Complete program information is available online here and the registration form is available online here.