Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section Midwinter 2010 Forum

From: Qiang Jin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 14:40:47 -0600

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ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section Midwinter 2010 Forum
To kick-off the year of Cataloging Research (2010), the CCS Forum will be devoted to presentations and discussion about cataloging research as well as examples of current research. The CCS Forum will take place on Friday, January 15, 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm at the Boston Convention Center, Room 104A/B. Qiang Jin, Chair of the Cataloging and Classification Section, will serve as moderator.
Speakers:

Michèle V. Cloonan, Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at Simmons College will discuss Simmons’ up-and-coming Ph.D.s and how important the program is to foster an understanding of the need for cataloging research.
 
Sandy Roe, Editor, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, and Bibliographic Services Librarian at Illinois State University will discuss the importance of cataloging research and how CCQ supports cataloging research. 

Martha Yee, Cataloging Supervisor, UCLA Film & Television Archive, will discuss the RDF model to build in ways for encoding the relationships between topics and their subdivisions that conveys more information than the MARC subfield codes v, x, y, and z provide. 

Tina Gross, Catalog Librarian at St. Cloud State University, Daniel Joudrey, Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College and Arlene Taylor, Professor Emerita, Library and Information Science Program, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburg will present “The Effect of Controlled Vocabulary on Keyword Searching.” Their research explores the need for LCSH and other controlled vocabularies to enhance keyword searching and retrieval in today's catalogs.

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Qiang Jin
Senior Coordinating Cataloger
Associate Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
220 Library
1408 W Gregory
Urbana, IL 61801
217-244-2010
[email-masked]