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A free conference out west:
Next Generation Library Catalogs
Wednesday afternoon, November 7, 2007, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Ballroom in the UMass Amherst Campus Center
You are invited to join colleagues from Western Massachusetts and nearby areas of New England for an interesting and informative program about "next generation" interfaces for library databases. For full details see http://www.smith.edu/libraries/staff/fivecoll/nextgen.htm
The meeting described below takes place in a public auditorium with lots of space.
On Monday, June 11th, there will be an open presentation for the Harvard library community on a Framework for a Bibliographic Future. Our guest will be Karen Coyle, co-author of the recently published "Resource Description and Access (RDA); Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century," available at http://dlib.org/dlib/january07/coyle/01coyle.html.
The meeting will be held from 3:30 to 5pm, in Science Center Hall D.
Currently a consultant in the area of digital libraries, Coyle worked for over 20 years at the University of California in the California Digital Library and is a recognized expert in metadata and information retrieval. She maintains a blog at kcoyle.blogspot.com, as well as a wiki at http://futurelib.pbwiki.com/. A list of her publications is available on her website, http://www.kcoyle.net/
A calendar for Harvard University Library events may be found at: http://hul.harvard.edu/calendar.html