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WiLS Peer Council Meeting Programs

Peer Council 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. in rooms 325-326 of the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street in Madison.

Peer Council is an assembly of technical services librarians in Wisconsin. The WiLS Peer Council meetings are an opportunity to learn new things, share information with peers, and interact with a diverse group with shared common interests.

This year's meeting features speaker, Eric Childress, from OCLC Research. Eric speaks on subjects related to library research, Library 2.0, the future of cataloging and other metadata-related subjects. See speaker profiles>

Schedule
8:30 Participant sign-in with pastries and beverages

9:00 Housekeeping and Welcome

Eric Childress9:15
OCLC Research: Common Issues, Shared Explorations
Eric Childress, OCLC OCLC Research works with the library community to collaboratively identify problems and opportunities, prototype and test solutions, and share findings through publications, presentations and professional interactions. This presentation will highlight selected activities including the WorldCat Genres project and findings from a recent OCLC study of the library landscape.

10:45 Break

11:00
Cataloging Conversation

12:00 Lunch on your own

Afternoon Programs & Concurrent Workshop
1:00-3:15 Sessions at the Pyle Center

1:00
Wisconsin Words: From Lawyers and Sheepshead to Trippe, Bakery, and Ramps
Julie Plier, Freelance Lexicographer Luanne von Schneidemesser, Dictionary of American Regional English
Julie and Luanne will speak about how the various ethnic and cultural groups which settled Wisconsin have influenced and enriched our language, and how our language continues to develop and change, exemplifying with words and phrases. If you've lived in Wisconsin "from little on" or even if you've been here for only a short time, if you go to church suppers or Friday-night fish fries, play sheepshead, borrow your friend money to buy bakery, drink from a bubbler, know about case weather, or have ever budged in line, you can say you're from Wisconsin.

2:00 Break

2:15
The Harry Potter Impact on Reading
Kathleen Horning, Cooperative Childrens Book Center (CCBC)
Kathleen will speak about about the publishing phenomenon of the Harry Potter series and what made the books such an amazing success, the impact on children's book publishing as a whole, and what we can learn from Harry Potter fans of all ages.

1:00-5:00 Room 231
Hands-On Workshop at Memorial Library RDA: Potentials and Pitfalls (RDA slides and RDA record samples)
Mark K. Ehlert
With the hands-on portion of the U.S. RDA Test having ended with the close of 2010 and a decision on implementation set to be announced early this summer, this interim period provides an opportunity to review the potentials and pitfalls of RDA. The presenter will revisit the background and structure of RDA, then address various cataloging scenarios by walking through the making of an RDA bibliographic record. He will also highlight some of the differences between AACR2 and its proposed successor—and how these may play out in the public catalog.

Profiles:
Eric Childress is a Consulting Project Manager in OCLC Research. He provides project management support for OCLC Research initiatives and participates as a contributing team member on selected research projects. A specialist in metadata standards and systems, he has been active professionally in the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), serving as chair, member, or liaison with various committees and working groups. Eric has authored or co-authored articles and columns for a variety of professional journals including Library Resources & Technical Services, VRA Bulletin, Journal of Internet Cataloging, Code4Lib Journal, and the Proceedings Of The International Conference On Dublin Core And Metadata Applications. His wide-ranging expertise on metadata-related topics is often tapped for invited presentations at international professional conferences and workshops. Prior to OCLC Childress worked in the cataloging departments of the libraries at Elon University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). He holds a B.A. (Geography) and M.L.S. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Mark K. Ehlert is a Coordinator with the Bibliographic and Technical Services unit of Minitex. He has been a cataloger for over 15 years, plying his trade at Alcuin Library (St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota) and the University of Minnesota's Wilson Library. More recently he has been a participant in the Minitex Contract Cataloging Program, formerly as a cataloger, now as a manager. Mark received his master's degree in Library and Information Science in 2007 from Dominican University through the MLIS program at St. Catherine University (St. Paul, Minnesota).

Julia Plier received a BA in French from Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin. She spent seven years working at Scott Foresman editing the Thorndike Barnhart series of student dictionaries. After leaving fulltime employment, she has continued working freelance on a variety of standard, ESL, and subject-related dictionaries for such publishers as A&C Black, Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Grosset & Dunlap, Macmillan, and Oxford University Press. She is also the pronunciation editor for glossaries in the Wisconsin Historical Society's books for young readers. Julie is a board member of Dictionary Society of North America, and a member of the Wisconsin Englishes Project, headquartered at the UW-Madison.

Luanne von Schneidemesser is Senior Editor, Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) at the UW-Madison. She received her BA from Kansas State University, her PhD in German from UW-Madison, writing on the colloquial language (Umgangssprache) of Giessen, Germany. She also studied in Germany and Switzerland. She carried out fieldwork for the Wortatlas der deutschen Umgangssprachen in Germany. She has taught English and German, and has been invited to give lectures in Germany, Switzerland, and Norway. Her publication topics include DARE, American regional English, settlement history, pop and soda, terms used in children's games, Kansas vocabulary, German influences on American English, use of digital resources, and outreach. She is currently President of the American Dialect Society. She was Executive Secretary of the Dictionary Society of North America 1998-2007. In 2009 she was elected a fellow of the DSNA. At UW-Madison, she is part of the Wisconsin Englishes project.

Kathleen Horning is the director of the Cooperative Children's Book Center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) is a unique examination, study and research library of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The CCBC's noncirculating collections include current, retrospective and historical books published for children and young adults. The CCBC supports teaching, learning and research related to children's and young adult literature and provides informational and educational services based on its collections to students and faculty on the UW-Madison campus and librarians, teachers, child care providers, researchers and other adults through the state of Wisconsin (see bio).