[Eril-l] Core Webinar: Beyond Your Department: Uniting Catalogers

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Core Webinar: Beyond Your Department: Uniting Catalogers

Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2026

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



Description:

By the end of the session, attendees will form a community of technical
services professionals. Fighting against the perceptions of catalogers as
isolated or antisocial can be a challenge, especially when many
institutions only have one librarian assigned to catalog. Further, many of
these catalogers hold multiple roles and may not originally be catalogers,
resulting in a higher frequency of flawed records and inaccessible OPACs.
We can address these problems by creating cataloging communities, which
will improve the quality of their work, thereby improving the usability of
catalogs for patrons.This presentation will provide examples and
opportunities to connect catalogers, informed by the presenters’
initiatives in creating a statewide cataloger community. These
opportunities to build community will be modeled with one-on-one
interactions, cold emailing, listservs, workgroups, roundtables, connecting
with existing resources, etc. The session will create connections among
catalogers, with the larger goals of improving access to library materials
and sharing metadata best practices. The formation of these communities
will encourage more librarians to participate in metadata projects, making
the field a more welcoming place to learn and work. These communities will
also empower librarians to champion technical services roles and positions.

Learning outcomes:

By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:

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   articulate the importance of creating community amongst catalogers and
   metadata specialists.
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   form larger connections with other catalogers and metadata specialists
   within their communities.
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   prioritize collaborative metadata projects and the sharing of best
   practices for improved records.


Who should attend?

Technical service employees, ranging from official catalogers to anyone who
has cataloging responsibilities in their libraries

Presenters:

Amy Banks is a cataloging librarian at the Utah State Library. Amy has a
B.A. in English Education and an M.A. in English from Brigham Young
University. She also has an MSLIS from University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign. Amy started her career in education, teaching secondary
English classes as an English teacher and writing classes as an adjunct
professor. She shifted into librarianship as an Adult Services public
librarian, and now enjoys cataloging for bookmobile and rural libraries
across the state of Utah.

India-Bleu Niehoff is a cataloging librarian at the Utah State Library. A
double-Badger, India has both a BA and her MLIS from UW-Madison.


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Registration fees for webinar: Core Member $57.85; ALA member: $80.10;
Student member $44.50; Non-member $89.00

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

https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1543

Core 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.

For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please
contact Core CE staff at corece at ala.org.

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