• Discuss how things went at team leaders meeting

• Discuss implications of Metadata 101 program. Where do we go from here?

• AutoCat thread (high-volume) on new names for catalog department and technical services.

• Discuss Clay Shirky's "Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags." Self-archived at http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html [Per author introduction: "This piece is based on two talks I gave in the spring of 2005 -- one at the O'Reilly ETech conference in March, entitled "Ontology Is Overrated", and one at the IMCExpo in April entitled "Folksonomies & Tags: The rise of user-developed classification." The written version is a heavily edited concatenation of those two talks."] Part of his argument is that the driving force behind LCC (Library of Congress Classification) has been arrangement of books on shelves rather than authentic relations among ideas. In an age of ubiquitous digital information, he believes the system may have outlived its usefulness. His analysis goes pretty deep, and poses some interesting challenges for catalog librarians.

• Discuss Liz Bishoff's "The Collaboration Imperative." PDF full text Bishoff--who is VP of OCLC's Digital Collection and Preservation Services--argues that librarians need to collaborate better with archivists and museum curators. Areas of mutual interest and benefit include ILTS grant-writing, scaling up to more cost-effective project management, collaborative training and best practices, and, perhaps most importantly for our purposes, interoperability through common metadata standards. The current proliferation of standards limits our ability to provide "seamless integrated access" to our users, e.g.: Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is used for finding aids, Dublin Core for digital photos, maps, etc., MARC for e-books, etc., and VRA Core for art resources.

• Look at Acquisitions outflow spreadsheet [1]. Note 30% decline in items routed to Frontlog between FY04 and FY05. Will this free up those who were previously dedicated to frontlog management to work on new initiatives?

• Meeting schedule reminder: VTF meetings on 11/17 and 12/15 cancelled due to conflict with rescheduled CCC meetings.

 

 

 

 

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