Peer Council Meeting—May 18, 2010
The WiLS Peer Council Meeting featured speaker Karen Coyle, a Digital Libraries consultant of Berkeley, California. She follows, writes, and speaks on a wide range policy areas, including intellectual property, privacy, and public access to information. As a consultant she works primarily on metadata development and technology planning (read her article Cataloging Horizons in American Libraries Magazine).
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Schedule
| 8:30 | Registration with coffee and pastries |
| 9:15 | Housekeeping and Welcome |
| 9:30 | Keynote: Catalogs in the 21st Century Karen Coyle, ConsultantLibrary cataloging has a long and stellar history, and no other community has developed the degree of bibliographic control that libraries have. Yet information seekers today spend a decreasing amount time with the library catalog and more time on the Web as the network becomes their virtual workplace. We must find way to integrate the library’s services with the networked resources that serve the public. To do this requires moving from text-based desc-riptions to machine-actionable metadata, and from separate databases to data that can interact with the online information universe. Coyle will describe this metadata future, and will report on the efforts already underway to transform library catalogs in the 21st century. |
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Break |
| 11:15 | An In-depth Conversation with Karen Coyle |
| 11:15 | Library and Web Resources for the Genealogist and Local Historian Lori Bessler, Reference. Librarian and Outreach Coordinator, Wisconsin Historical SocietyGenealogy and local history is on the rise. This lecture will provide information about records and other materials used for research in family and local history. It is a mixture of online and library/archives materials and will go into detail on what resources genealogists and local historians are trying to locate. |
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Lunch on your own |
| 1:30 | Wisconsin Digital Archive(Digital Archive) Abbigail Swanton from Wisconsin Reference and LoanWDA’s primary goal is to provide permanent electronic access to web content located on Wisconsin state agency websites Digital ArchiveUniversity of Wisconsin Digital Collections Leah Ujda from UW-Madison Digital CollectionsIn collaboration with libraries and archives across Wisconsin, UWDCC creates and provides access to digital resources that uniquely document the University and the state.( State of Wisconsin and/or University of Wisconsin collections ) Wisconsin Heritage Online (Wisconsin Heritage online) WHO aims to expand access to Wisconsin’s cultural heritage resources by assisting cultural heritage institutions to digitize content. |
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End of Day |