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CLA and OCLC Canada announce Resource Sharing Award winners; View presentations from OCLC Canada's Symposium, The New World of Metadata

OCLC Canada’s Symposium, The New World of Metadata, was held at CLA in Montreal on May 29, 2009. The CLA/OCLC Canada Resource Sharing Award was presented to Cape Breton Regional Library and Cape Breton University Library.

  • OCLC Canada’s Symposium at CLA: The New World of Metadata

    OCLC Canada’s Symposium
    Joel Summerlin, Associated PressDaniel Boivin, OCLC Canada
    Eugene Roman, Open Text Corp.ReceptionReception2Reception3

    We engaged a generous crowd of more than 60 people to discuss many critical issues impacting libraries today. We tackled some fascinating topics, including how every industry, in our new environment of global information services, has become deeply concerned with metadata.

    Speakers included Ted Fons, Director, WorldCat Global Metadata Network, OCLC, Joel Summerlin,Deputy Director, Information Standards, Associated Press, and Eugene Roman, CIO at Open Text Corporation

    View the presentations.

  • Cape Breton Regional Library and Cape Breton University Library awarded the 2009 CLA/OCLC Resource Sharing Award

    CLA/OCLC Resource Sharing Award
    Resource Sharing Award

    OCLC Canada and the CLA Resource Sharing Interest Group have awarded the 2009 CLA/OCLC Award for Resource Sharing Achievement to the Cape Breton Regional Library and Cape Breton University Library Resource Sharing Initiatives.

    The Cape Breton Regional Library and the Cape Breton University Library have a long-standing history of cooperation and resource sharing that can be dated back to 1999. During the period of time, regular and special programs were cooperatively designed, planned and carried out in areas such as learning and teaching, collections, professional development and database creation. They partnered to bring together, update and maintain the Gaelic language records into one online bilingual catalogue and made it available through Web access.

    The CLA/OCLC Canada Award for Resource Sharing Achievement is an annual award consisting of $1,000. The award and plaque were presented at the OCLC Canada reception at the annual CLA conference on May 29. This award recognizes their successful, innovative and extensive resource sharing initiatives in a public and academic library environment.

    For more information about the OCLC Canada Symposium or the CLA/OCLC Resource Sharing Award, please call OCLC Canada at 1-888-658-6583, e-mail canada@oclc.org, or visit CLA’s Web site.