[Eril-l] ALCTS e-Forum: Adapting Cataloging Workflows to a Batch Processing Environment

[ALCTS-CE Announce]

*Cross posted to multiple lists.*

ALCTS e-Forum: Adapting Cataloging Workflows to a Batch Processing
Environment

November 14-15, 2017

Moderated by Ethan Fenichel, Ariel Turner, and Susan Wynne

Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!

Registration information is at the end of the message.

Each day, discussion begins and ends at:

Pacific: 7 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Mountain: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Central: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Eastern: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Libraries increasingly rely on vendor-supplied records to improve
efficiency and reduce duplication of effort. The quality of records may
vary widely, and libraries may also need to make changes for local systems
or workflows. Batch processing can be an efficient strategy to correct or
enhance sets of records, but the power of batch processing tools also comes
with many challenges and complexities. In this e-Forum, we will discuss the
technical and organizational opportunities associated with managing vendor
records, including issues of quality, techniques and tools for batch
processing and loading, and workflows and best practices for vendor record
sets.

Moderators

Ethan Fenichel is the E-Resources Access Management Librarian at the
Florida Atlantic University. His responsibilities include developing and
overseeing workflows for ingesting MARC records in batch. Ethan handles
automation but with safety gloves. Find him on Twitter at @ethandf

Ariel Turner is the Interim Director of Technical Services at Kennesaw
State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. She has previously worked as the
Discovery Librarian and the Automation and Batch Cataloging Librarian, also
at Kennesaw State.

Susan Wynne recently became the Catalog Management Librarian (unofficial
title: Catalog Wrangler) at the University of Iowa. Previously, she worked
at Georgia State University and the University of Wyoming. Susan is chair
of the CaMMS Executive Committee for 2017-2018. Find her on Twitter at
@wynne_susan

What Is an e-Forum?

An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss matters
of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion list. The
e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register your email
address with the list, and then you will receive messages and communicate
with other participants through an email discussion. Most e-forums last two
to three days. Registration is necessary to participate, but it's free.

For information about upcoming e-forums, please visit
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum

How to Register

You must register your email address to subscribe to or access an
electronic discussion list on ALA's Mailing List Service. Once you have
registered for one e-forum, you do not need to register again, unless you
choose to leave the list. Find instructions for subscribing and
unsubscribing online. (
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum/sympa)

If you have any problems, please contact alcts-eforum-request at ala.org.

*Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.*
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