Call for Proposal: ALA ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group 2020 Virtual Session
The Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group is inviting speakers to present at the ALCTS Virtual Interest Group Week this June. Our session will be held on June 10 at 2:00-3:00 Eastern Time.
We are seeking two presentations that are about 20 minutes long. Audience questions and discussion will follow the presentations.
Theme: How cataloging can support changes and challenges affecting our libraries
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Please email proposals to the Co-Chairs by Tuesday, May 26, 2020. We will make our selections and contact applicants by Friday, May 29. In your proposal, please include the following:
We look forward to hearing from you!
CCRIG Co-Chairs, 2019-2020
Amy Bailey abbailey@indiana.edu
Jianying Shou jianying.shou@duke.edu
CCRIG Co-Vice Chairs, 2019-2020
Yukari Sugiyama yukari.sugiyama@yale.edu
Nerissa Lindsey nlindsey@sdsu.edu
The Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group is inviting speakers to present at the ALCTS Virtual Interest Group Week this June. Our session will be held on June 10 at 2:00-3:00 Eastern Time.
We are seeking two presentations that are about 20 minutes long. Audience questions and discussion will follow the presentations.
Theme: How cataloging can support changes and challenges affecting our libraries
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Cataloging projects in emergency situations like during COVID-19 pandemic
- Work-from-home ideas for catalogers and cataloging staff
- Addressing discovery layer functionality
- Maintaining cataloging efficiency for increasingly diverse collections
- Providing metadata insight for collection assessment
- Promoting the need for cataloging professionals
- Expanding metadata contribution
- Transforming metadata with APIs
- Adapting or developing metadata for digital collections
- Ethical issues in subject analysis and biases in classification schemes, thesauri and other knowledge organization systems
- Thesauri in modern information retrieval and automatic text classification
- Communication and collaboration between technical services, digital initiatives and public services
- Working with library data in the linked data environment
Please email proposals to the Co-Chairs by Tuesday, May 26, 2020. We will make our selections and contact applicants by Friday, May 29. In your proposal, please include the following:
- Presentation title
- Abstract: 150-300 words
- Amount of time needed to make the presentation
- Names and positions of presenter(s)
- Email address(es) of presenter(s)
We look forward to hearing from you!
CCRIG Co-Chairs, 2019-2020
Amy Bailey abbailey@indiana.edu
Jianying Shou jianying.shou@duke.edu
CCRIG Co-Vice Chairs, 2019-2020
Yukari Sugiyama yukari.sugiyama@yale.edu
Nerissa Lindsey nlindsey@sdsu.edu
