David Zeidberg, Avery Director of the Library, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, opened the day’s activities for 117 participants. Roy Tennant, OCLC Research, presented the keynote address on bibliographic metadata infrastructure. Member panelists included: Laura Smart, Metadata Services Manager, Caltech Libraries, Helen Heinrich, Cataloging Coordinator, California State University, Northridge, and Sharon Benamou, Hebraica/Judaica and Music Catalog Librarian, UCLA. Holly Tomren, Head of Monograph, Electronic Resources & Metadata Cataloging, UC Irvine, provided the closing keynote address, encouraging everyone to use reactive (patron-driven) catalog maintenance.

Resources from this event:

• Keynote: A Bibliographic Metadata Infrastructure for the 21st Century [Streaming video, 52 minutes] [PDF, 43 slides]
  Roy Tennant, OCLC Research
• From Outside-in Inventory Management to Inside-out Exposure of Scholarly Communication [Streaming video, 16 minutes] [PDF, 4 slides]
  Laura Smart, Metadata Services Manager, Caltech Libraries
• Putting the Puzzle Together: Technical Services Workflow Redesign [Streaming video, 30 minutes] [PDF, 17 slides]
  Helen Heinrich, Cataloging Coordinator, California State University, Northridge
• Empowering Catalogers to Reduce Backlogs [Streaming video, 13 minutes] [PDF, 6 slides]
  Sharon Benamou, Hebraica/Judaica and Music Catalog Librarian, UCLA
• Closing Keynote: Partners in Efficiency, Opportunities for Success [Streaming video, 23 minutes] [PDF, 21 slides]
  Holly Tomren, Head of Monograph, Electronic Resources & Metadata Cataloging at UC Irvine
• Roundtable Discussion Results [PDF, 2 pages]

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