New York Technical Services Librarians
Dinner Programs

• For more information regarding this program please go to http://libweb5.princeton.edu/e-resources/index.html
  

2005 May 20: Matthew Beacom, Metadata Librarian, Yale University, These Old Rules: Rebuilding AACR for the 21st Century (htm | ppt)

• For more information: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/index.html

2004 November 12: Michael J. Giarlo, Network/Systems Administrator, Scholarly Communication Center, Rutgers University Libraries, Highway Building 101: Paving the way to a statewide digital repository. (htm | ppt)

• For more information: http://www.njdigitalhighway.org/, http://www.fedora.info/, and http://www.fedora.info/wiki/bin/view/Fedora/WebHome

2004 May 7: Kate Harcourt, Asst. Head, Original & Special Materials Cataloging, Columbia University Libraries - Knowing a Hawk from a Handsaw: FRBR Basics, AACR and the OPAC. (htm | powerpoint)

2003 November 7: Thomas Krichel, Assistant professor at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University, Towards an open library of relational metadata: the experience of RePEc (Research Papers in Economics).(htm | powerpoint)

• For more information: http://repec.org,  http://www.openarchives.org/ and http://openlib.org/home/krichel/

2003 May 9: Barbara Taranto Director of Digital Information and System Design, The Digital Library, The New York Public Library & Carrie Bickner, Assistant Director of Digital Information and System Design, The Digital Library, The New York Public Library - "LOCKSS - Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe™: Digital Archiving of Electronic Journals"

• For more information on the LOCKSS™ project: http://lockss.stanford.edu/

2002 November: Eileen M. Henthorne, Executive Director, The Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP), Princeton, NJ - "A Cooperative Shelving Facility for Columbia University, Princeton University and The New York Public Library (htm | powerpoint)"

• The speaker was followed by reactions from technical service librarians including Cynthia Clark (NYPL) and then an open question/answer period.
• For more information, including links to other offsite storage facilities: Princeton University ReCAP Operations by Rick Schulz (htm | powerpoint) - http://recap1.princeton.edu/about/general.html

2002 May: Grace Agnew, Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems, Rutgers
University Libraries - "Metadata: So Many Schemes, So Little Time: Harnessing the Proliferation of Metadata Schemes (htm | powerpoint) "

2001 November: Jean Hirons, CONSER Coordinator, Library of Congress - "Reflections on seriality"

2001 May: Sherry Vellucci, St. John's University - "Authority Control in the New Millennium: Reflections on the Library of Congress Bicentennial Conference & Thoughts on Future Directions"

2000 November: Flo Wilson, Vanderbilt University Library - "Time X Cost = Enlightenment: Understanding the Nature and Impact of Technical Services Costs"

2000 May: Karen Calhoun, Cornell University Libraries - “The Catalog, Next Generation: Access to Full Text Journals in Aggregator Databases "

1999 November: Beth Davis-Brown, National Digital Library Program, Library of Congress - ^"Digital libraries: old concepts, new challenges"

1999 May: Eric Childress, OCLC - "Cooperative cataloging of the web: OCLC's CORC Project"

1998 November: Barbara Tillett, Library of Congress - "Implementing an integrated library system (ILS) at the Library of Congress"

1998 May: Scott Wicks, Cornell University Libraries - "When frogs fly: appropriate and real expectations in the reorganization of technical services"

1997 November: Thomas McIlrath, American Institute of Physics - “Seeking partners while trekking through the electronic wilderness” (publishing electronic journals at AIP)

1997 May: Brian Schottlaender, University of California at Los Angeles - "Once and future cataloging: history and opinion" (AACR2 in light of Toronto conference to be held in October 1997)

1996 December: William Gray Potter, University of Georgia - "Wheels within wheels: the values of library cooperation" (Galileo and other virtual library consortiums)

1996 May: Erik Jul, OCLC - "Cataloging electronic resources: practice and promise"

1995 December: Ann Della Porta, Library of Congress - "The Program for Cooperative Cataloging: changing managers' and catalogers' values"

1995 May: Michael Kaplan, Harvard University Libraries - "The evolving, integrated technical services workstation: two snapshots in time"