Peer Council 2018 Programs

Thank you to all who attended, presented at, and supported Peer Council 2018! You can find the program materials below and we hope to see you next year!

The Peer Council 2018 schedule for Monday, June 4th at the Madison Public Library, Central Branch is below. WiLS sends extra special thanks to our presenters, the Peer Council planning team, our hosts at Madison Public Library, and our meeting sponsor, Innovative Interfaces, Inc., for helping to make Peer Council an engaging and affordable opportunity for library technical services staff across the state!

9:30 – 10:00 Registration and Coffee sponsored by Innovative Interfaces, Inc.

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome

10:15 – 11:15 Decolonizing Cataloguing and Classification

Kalani Adolpho, Diversity Resident Librarian, UW-Madison College Library

Libraries and archives are colonial impositions in many parts of the world, including lands that are now part of the United States Empire. As colonial impositions, libraries are complicit in the perpetuation of colonialism and Western hegemony through classification systems and controlled vocabularies. Through Library of Congress Subject Headings, Indigenous, queer, and gender non-conforming people are historicized, homogenized, and misnamed, and violence perpetuated against us is erased and/or referenced euphemistically.

This session will define, name impact, and provide examples of colonialism in cataloguing and classification, as well as share information on alternative headings and organization systems developed by Indigenous peoples and nations. Additionally, there will be ample time for questions and discussion after the presentation.

Decolonizing Libraries: Resources & Further Reading

11:30 – 12:30 Right or Not? Why Accurate Rights Statements Matter

Molly Huber, Outreach Coordinator, Minnesota Digital Library & Minitex

Rights statements provide important information about the rights status of an object, and are the primary way for users to know what they can do with what they find online. The Digital Public Library of America has charged all of its hubs with implementing standardized rights statements across their collections, and the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) has enthusiastically embraced the challenge. In the past year, we formed a team to study the twelve standardized rights statements at rightsstatements.org and to develop training materials to share with our more than 180 contributors on how to accurately apply them. Join presenter Molly Huber as she shares information about the rights statements initiative, what she learned from the pilot implementation project MDL just completed, and what the next steps might be.

12:30 – 2:00 Lunch (included with registration)

Tacos, tacos, tacos!

2:00 – 3:00 MarcEdit Tools and Workflows

Katie Dunn, Electronic Resources Librarian, University of Wisconsin Law Library

Drawing on a conversation started last year at Peer Council, Katie will share more about MarcEdit, a free tool for editing and conversion of MARC data. She will present an overview of MarcEdit tools and workflows with an emphasis on functionality requested by attendees.

3:00 – 3:15 Thank You and Adjourn

3:15 Tech Services Talk at Casetta Kitchen and Counter

Unstructured snacking and chatting time with your colleagues at a cute little restaurant walkable from the meeting location.