National Library of Australia

Promise for the future, or legacy of the past? : cataloguing in a changing world

Auditorium 1, Level 2, State Library of Queensland
Friday 7th September 2007

Program

Time Presentation
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:35 Welcome and opening
Ebe Kartus, Chairperson ACOC
9:35-10:35 On competition for cataloguers
Karen Calhoun, Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services
(Chair: Ebe Kartus)
10:35-11:00 Morning tea
11:00-11:45 The future of cataloguing education and training: input from surveys of the profession
Gillian Hallam, Associate Professor, School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology and Stuart Ferguson, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University (ACOC)
(Chair: Ann Huthwaite)
11:45-12:15

Resource Description and Access (RDA)
Deirdre Kiorgaard (ACOC)
(Chair: Ann Huthwaite)

12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00 Directors' views on the future of cataloguing : a survey
Jenny Warren, Monash University
(Chair: Anne Robertson)
2:00-2:30 The plight of the library catalogue - where to now?
Dianna McClellan, Metadata Services, La Trobe University
(Chair: Anne Robertson)
2:30-3:00 Boldly going where no cataloguer has gone before
Karen Stone, Manager, Database Services, State Library of Queensland
(Chair: Anne Robertson)
3:00-3:30 Afternoon tea
3:30-4:00

Subject cataloguing : faster, better, cheaper
Alison Dellit and Wan Wong, National Library of Australia
(Chair: Rob Walls)

4:00-4:30 Tags, Tagging, Social_tagging, the good and bad of "user assigned keywords"
Anne Beaumont, Senior Research & Development Analyst, Office of eStrategy,
State Library of Victoria
(Chair: Rob Walls)
4:30 Seminar closes