Pass it on -- "Future of Bibliographic Control"

This came in the mail this morning, so I'm passing this along from my inbox to you all, of possible professional interest to those in the Cataloging/Metadata side of things.

... in other news, I should hopefully know by the end of this upcoming week
if I am moving out of state (new job) or staying here.
Will keep ya'll posted either way.

Enjoy!

--JJR, aka The Aggie Librarian.

PS: My friend PT in Clear Lake describes herself as a "reluctant cataloger"; I like that. For all my attempts to get library jobs, I must admit I've gotten more phone and face-to-face interviews from the cataloging jobs I've applied for. I've gotten a few reference position phone interviews but NONE have gone to the next level of face-to-face interviewing among other finalists. It's a hard club to break into, but once you do, it seems you get first dibs on all the good cataloger jobs out there. Anyhow...check out the professional info below.

-----Original Message-----
From: Radical Cataloging [mailto:RADCAT@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf Of
mlindner@UIUC.EDU
Sent: Sun, May 13, 2007 12:20 PM
To: RADCAT@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: 2nd meeting of the LoC Working Group on the Future of
Bibliographic Control

Please excuse the cross-posting: I have sent this to AUTOCAT, RADCAT,
EduCAT, NGC4LIB, and the Metadata Librarians lists. Please feel free to
forward it wherever you feel it may be of use; that is, I give you explicit
permission to do so.

On Wednesday, May 9th, several colleagues from UIUC and I attended the 2nd
meeting of the LoC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control at
ALA in Chicago.

I have transcribed my notes, and those of Kathryn La Barre, in a series of
blog posts on my blog in the hopes of getting as much of this information
out into the public sphere as possible. Comments are certainly welcome.

A teaser and links to Diane Hillmann's posts at the LITA Blog:
http://tinyurl.com/2udc6t

Part 1: Welcome(s):
http://tinyurl.com/36moen

Part 2: David Bade
http://tinyurl.com/2jzuup

Part 3: Diane Hillmann
http://tinyurl.com/2q345k

Part 4: Jane Greenberg
http://tinyurl.com/2shc2v

Part 5: Jennifer Bowen
http://tinyurl.com/32am7g

Part 6: Public testimony and wrap-up
http://tinyurl.com/3dqwlt

There is still time to provide written testimony to this Working Group and I
highly encourage you to do so. Those of you outside of academic
libraries/LIS schools are highly encouraged to do so, as there seems to be
little explicit representation by these communities in this process.

Written testimony instructions can be found here:
http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/meetings/submit-testimony.html

Mark

Mark R. Lindner
Certificate of Advanced Study candidate
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign

Graduate Assistant, Serials Cataloging, Content Access Management
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
1408 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801

Graduate Assistant, Illinois Fire Service Institute Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11 Gerty Drive
Champaign, IL 61820

mlindner@uiuc.edu