Making Metadata: Turning Theory into Product

If you want to learn about the realities of creating metadata, this hands-on workshop will help move you from theory to practice. From selecting the appropriate standards to implementing a quality control process, there are many stages of successful metadata creation. This workshop will include exercises and explorations to help you create quality metadata.

Audience: This workshop is for catalogers, librarians, and library staff who have been exposed to the concepts of metadata and want to learn about the day-to-day aspects of producing metadata.

Instructors: Morag Boyd and Melanie Schlosser, The Ohio State University

Date/Time: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM

Location: OHIONET, 1500 West Lane Avenue, Columbus, OH 43221. PH: 614-486-2966

Cost: $75 for CO-ASIS&T members and OHIONET members, $95 for non-members.
Student rate $35. Beverages and snacks will be provided. Lunch is on your own, with several local
eateries nearby.

Seating is limited to 14 for this hands-on workshop. Please RSVP to Morag Boyd at boyd.402@osu.edu and indicate whether you are paying by check, credit card or cash. You may pay in advance with credit card by going to this secure URL:
https://www.asis.org/Chapters/coasis/cohioregform11182008.html

If paying by check, make payable to “CO-ASIS&T” and mail to:
Morag Boyd
The Ohio State University Libraries
610 Ackerman Rd., Rm 5825
Columbus, OH 43202-4500

Reservation deadline is Friday, November 14, 2008. All reservations must be paid for unless cancelled by that date.

About the Instructors
Morag Boyd is Special Collections Metadata Librarian at The Ohio State University Libraries. Her areas of expertise include description of rare books, archives, and museum collections. Morag was previously Bibliographic Services Division Head at Illinois State University, where she also served as co-chair of the Digital Resources Management Team.

Melanie Schlosser is a metadata librarian in the Scholarly Resources Integration Department at The Ohio State University Libraries. Melanie came to OSUL from Indiana University’s Digital Library Program, where she focused on electronic text projects and description of complex digital collections. She also has expertise in digital library standards and practices, and experience in developing workflows for complex projects.

Come to hear and practice the basic processes that Alane Wilson has developed to create the OCLC Environmental Scan. Use the specific steps presented to better describe and understand the environment that your users experience. Learn to identify and approach the sources of fear and anxiety that often drive the planning process in organizations that want to establish a new direction. 

This workshop is designed to facilitate action at the local level. Plan on attending and develop new insights into how to guide your organization. Lunch will be provided during a casual discussion period.
 
Alane Wilson, presenter and facilitator for this workshop, graduated from the University of British Columbia’s School of Library and Information Studies in Vancouver in 1986, and joined the staff of the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) Libraries the same year as a reference librarian. In 1995, she was hired by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Rasmuson Library as Head of Reference and Instructional Services. In 1997, Alane joined OCLC as a sales representative. In March 2003, after working in marketing and sales, she resigned from OCLC, but Jay Jordan (OCLC CEO) recruited her in June 2003 to work on the OCLC Environmental Scan. Alane rejoined OCLC fulltime in May 2004. In addition to co-authoring and editing the Scan, she has published articles, spoken to many groups, and is one of three OCLC contributors to the “It’s All Good” blog.
 
WHEN:  Friday, October 14, 2005 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
WHERE: OCLC, 6565 Frantz Rd., Dublin Ohio in the Smith Building Board Room.
Cost Including Lunch: $45 for members, $55 for non-members and
$30 for students.
 
Note the deadline for reservations and payment has changed:
it is now Monday, October 10th, 2005.
 
CO-ASIS&T will not be able to issue refunds for any cancellations received after October 10th or for no-shows the day of the workshop.
 
FOR RESERVATIONS please contact Ginny Browne at browneg@oclc.org or 614-761-5217.
ONLINE RESERVATION with credit card payment on our website
PAYMENT BY CHECK should be made payable to “CO-ASIS&T” and sent to:
Ginny Browne
OCLC
Mail Code 421
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin, OH 43017
Directions to the Smith Building at OCLC can be found at
http://www.oclc.org/about/headquarters/maps/campus.htm

 “Managing and Working in the Collaborative Environment: Techniques & Technology to Make Collaborations Easier”

Collaboration isn’t just a great idea, many organizations now find it both a cultural and fiscal necessity.  However, it takes more than good intentions to make sure that collaboration succeeds.  Dr. Stansbury’s workshop features strategies and techniques that increase success in the collaborative environment.  Materials will be presented in a variety of ways, including hands-on exercises, plus both high-tech and low-tech tools to increase effectiveness in the collaborative environment.  Highlights of the morning’s agenda include:

The Nature of Collaborative Work: 

• Characteristics of Collaborative Work, Types of Tasks
• Group Member Skills & Competencies, Decision-Making Processes

Tools for Collaboration:

• Interpersonal, Institutional
• Checklists & Guidelines
• Software: Groove, ProjectPlace, Microsoft Project and open source

Dr. Stansbury, Assistant Professor in Kent State University’s School of Library and Information Science, recently collaborated on “Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide”
 
DETAILS & AGENDA
Date:  Friday April 30, 2004 from 8:30 a.m. until 12:00 Noon
Where:  Smith Auditorium at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio
Time:   8:30 AM TO 9:00 AM – Continental Breakfast & Registration. Meet fellow participants and enjoy fresh coffee, an assortment of muffins, donuts, bagels, coffee cake, scones & juice.

Cost: 

• Members of ASIS&T and SLA  $35.00
• Non-members $45.00
  A $5 discount is applied if payment is received by April 15th

Checks should be made payable to: CO-ASIS&T and sent to the attention of Ginny Browne,
Knowledge Management Librarian, OCLC
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin, OH 43017
ph: +1-614-761-5217
fax: +1-614-718-7460
browneg@oclc.org

This program is co-sponsored by the Central Ohio Chapter of the American Society for Information Science & Technology and the Central Ohio Chapter of the Special Libraries Association.

OCLC Location & Map available at: http://www.oclc.org/about/headquarters/maps/default.htm