[Eril-l] Best of Core Forum Webinar: Mapping Your Skill Sets: Understanding and Using the Core Competencies for Cataloging & Metadata Professionals

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Best of Core Forum Webinar: Mapping Your Skill Sets: Understanding and
Using the Core Competencies for Cataloging & Metadata Professionals

Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2025

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



Description:

The Core Competencies for Cataloging & Metadata Professional Librarians
provides an important framework to assess professional-level cataloging and
metadata skills, knowledge, and behavior. This presentation will introduce
attendees to the revised (as of 2023) Core Competencies document and
discuss ways it can be utilized for professional growth, mentoring,
employee evaluation, and curriculum assessment. The presenters will provide
instructions and templates for attendees to use to evaluate their own or
employees cataloging and metadata proficiency, as well as examples to help
attendees better visualize the end product.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of the webinar, attendees will be able to:

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   identify the Core Competencies for Cataloging & Metadata Professional
   Librarians
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   discuss the different ways the Core Competencies can be utilized in
   workplace and educational environments.
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   analyze individual competencies in relation to the Core Competencies.

Who should attend?

Metadata and cataloging librarians

Presenters:

Karen Snow is a Professor and the Ph.D. Program Director in the School of
Information Studies at Dominican University in River Forest, IL. She
teaches face-to-face and online in the areas of cataloging, classification,
and metadata, and her main areas of research interest are cataloging
ethics, competencies, and education. In addition to numerous journal
articles and book chapters, Dr. Snow has published three books with Rowman
& Littlefield, A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Classification
(2017), A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Subject Headings (2021),
and A Practical Guide to Dewey Decimal Classification (2024). Dr. Snow
co-authored the Core Competencies for Cataloging and Metadata Professional
Librarians (2017 and 2023 revision) and the Cataloguing Code of Ethics
(2021).

Bobby Bothmann is catalog and metadata librarian at Minnesota State
University, Mankato, where he catalogs diverse analog and digital
resources. He is on the editorial board for Cataloging & Classification
Quarterly and actively serves OLAC in leadership roles, including
archivist. Bobby holds an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
and an MS in Geography and English Technical Communication from MSU
Mankato. He also teaches cataloging and classification as an adjunct
instructor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Registration fees for webinar:  Core Member $57.67; ALA member: $71.10;
Non-member $79.00

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

https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1456

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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