Notes from the ALA Brown Bag Lunch – January 27, 2005
Al Kagan
ALA/APA – Allied Professional Association was set up because of ALAs tax status and ability to do certain things because of ALAs lawyers.
ALA is a 501C3; APA is 501C6. That means it can address workplace issues and conduct certification programs. Also work on a salary campaign.
Al brought brochures for both of the candidates –
Blogs
Barbara Ford
ALA Leadership Development program –
There are so many leadership development programs and Barbara was amazed of what they are and aren’t. Talk about draft of 2006-2010 strategic plan.
ALISE – Boundary crossings – ALA accreditation committee is always looking for accreditation.
Alex Burn – President-elect of IFLA – he has made a proposal how to help libraries to have been hit from disaster.
Strategic plan feedback form – anyone can make a comment. It’s on the ALA website.
Tom Teper
Represents CIC on Preservation Committee
Ed O’Neill and Lynn Connaway from OCLC came to talk to them about the collection analysis project. Items held by 1 CIC institution but less than 5 nationwide. Google – Larry Page from Google is a Michigan alum. They are going through Michigan’s collection, scanning all of their print, bound collection, starting with the depository. Nothing that is brittle nor too big, too small, foldouts, maps. Google has paid to renovate a place in Ann Arbor and a staff. Investigated mechanical scanning but can’t do that. They are doing non-robotic scanning. Such a secret thing that none of the other schools knew what was involved. Eventually this will all be online through Google. Not in the public domain, a summary.
Al
The concept of digitization as preservation – comes up with Africana libraries.
This is worth further discussion in our library. ARL statement to recognize digitization as a preservation mechanism. Technical, political, and rhetorical level. Preservation is not a black and white issue.
Latest issue of Microform and Imaging Review has devoted a whole issue to digitization.
Nelly – did anyone report on digitization of particular materials? Michael thought Carnegie Mellon digitized 100,000 books. Why should NEH fund digitization when Google is going to do this? Why not wait until Google is finished and fill in the gaps?
Google initiative is huge and people will have great content access but not artifactual access.
Naun – what is happening with the bibliographic control side of this?
Tom – two year process of negotiation. They will scan the barcode, pull information out of the barcode and create metadata.
Naun
Text Creation meeting –
Digitization means that they’ve already looked at the test, but they come to see the thing.
Tom Kilton – where is this going? Why not UIUC?
Special Google meeting re: Google scholar. Tom T. volunteered to coordinate this.
Two ALA programs –
Colloquium committee –
Michael Gorman is coming
Kathleen:
CNRL News – draft of research competency guidelines for literature in English
Lisa G. : ALCTS will be offering a series of online Fundamentals classes – preservation, collection development, serials, managing tech services, acquisitions intermediate
Kathleen: MLA : Discussion Group – search off with a vendor/librarian team of MLA – how they treat different things. How many index fields? So one database, different platforms. How do the various vendors treat the MLA product.
Jo- Interesting to see if the same vendor would do really well with one database but worse with another.
Institutional Repository – Minnesota – Uthink – largest academic blogging site in US. The library runs the blog site. What about freedom of speech? Library took the position that you can say what you want to say. Double edged sword. Meant for students – “blogging for student communities of interest” Can blog with a name that isn’t yours.
What about blogging about the library? Instead of a survey, have a blog.
6 guidelines in ACRL from Rare Book and Special Manuscript Section – one about how to determine how to transfer materials into special collections and because of what we’re doing re: Oak St.
Gail – Attended a program on transforming Oregonian librarians from catalogers to metadata specialists. Responsible for IR website. Right place, right time, right people.
Qiang – FAS subject headings
Naun – old ideas, new ways.
Next steps:
- Put this out on website
- Suggest Google colloquium
- put reports on website
Tom Kilton – international librarianship; Global Resources Network. At WESS conference in Paris, called for a French and Francophone research project
Doing a feasibility study to be presented to ARL and CRL.
Janice Pilch
Copyright Committee – national copyright advisory network. Still in testing phase. 614 subscribers. Will be THE PLACE to go re: copyright
International Seminar on Fair Use – 50 international invited guests.
Unicode program – soliciting information from Slavic on implementing Unicode for Cyrillic information.
