[Eril-l] ALCTS webinar: WebDewey Number Building Tips and Tricks

[ALCTS-CE Announce]

*Apologies in advance for multiple postings.*

ALCTS webinar: WebDewey Number Building Tips and Tricks

Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2016

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.



Description:

WebDewey has some exciting and useful features for users of the DDC.
Attendees will learn how to use WebDewey to most efficiently build numbers
when needed using the Number Building Feature. They will also learn how to
create User Terms and to create and use institutional and individual
Comments to share local practices in classification.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of the webinar, attendees will understand how to build Dewey
numbers according to the editorial rules and save them for use across the
institution. They will also be able to create meaningful User Terms for
individual and institutional use. Finally, they will learn how to create
and use user-generated Comments to preserve and share local practice
decisions in classification.

Who should attend?  Library personnel who use WebDewey for classification

Presenters:

Libbie Crawford is currently the Product Manager for the Dewey Decimal
Classification (DDC) system and was one of the designers of WebDewey. She
has worked for 15+ years with the DDC at OCLC and was previously at SOLINET
and has worked in both academic and public libraries. She has been an
adjunct instructor for the University of Alabama and holds an MLIS from the
same institution. She currently resides in Dublin, Ohio.

Caroline Saccucci is the Program Manager and Section Head of the Cataloging
in Publication (CIP) and Dewey Section at the Library of Congress. Prior to
this, she was a CIP Program Specialist and cataloger in the U.S. General
Division. Caroline is active in ALCTS, including serving as the Dewey
Liaison to the CaMMS Subject Analysis Committee. She is the LC
representative to the DDC Editorial Policy Committee. Her MLS is from
Simmons College.


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Registration Fees:  ALCTS Member $43 ; Non-member $59 ; Group rate
(members/non-members) $99/$129 ; International $43

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to
the following website:

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/032316

ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording
shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration at ala.org <about:blank>. For
all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie
Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or alctsce at ala.org.

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.
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