Peer Council 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street in Madison.
The WiLS Peer Council Meeting featured speaker Karen Coyle, a Digital Libraries consultant of Berkeley, California. She follows, writes, and speaks on a wide range policy areas, including intellectual property, privacy, and public access to information. As a consultant she works primarily on metadata development and technology planning (read her article Cataloging Horizons in American Libraries Magazine).
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Schedule
8:30 Registration with coffee and pastries
9:15 Housekeeping and Welcome
9:30 Keynote: Catalogs in the 21st Century
Karen Coyle, Consultant
Library cataloging has a long and stellar history, and no other community has developed the degree of bibliographic control that libraries have. Yet information seekers today spend a decreasing amount time with the library catalog and more time on the Web as the network becomes their virtual workplace. We must find way to integrate the library’s services with the networked resources that serve the public. To do this requires moving from text-based desc-riptions to machine-actionable metadata, and from separate databases to data that can interact with the online information universe. Coyle will describe this metadata future, and will report on the efforts already underway to transform library catalogs in the 21st century.
11:00 Break
11:15 An In-depth Conversation with Karen Coyle
11:15 Library and Web Resources for the Genealogist and Local Historian
Lori Bessler, Reference. Librarian and Outreach Coordinator, Wisconsin Historical Society
Genealogy and local history is on the rise. This lecture will provide information about records and other materials used for research in family and local history. It is a mixture of online and library/archives materials and will go into detail on what resources genealogists and local historians are trying to locate.12:15Lunch on your own
1:30 Wisconsin Digital Archive (Digital Archive)
Abbigail Swanton from Wisconsin Reference and Loan
WDA’s primary goal is to provide permanent electronic access to web content located on Wisconsin state agency websites Digital Archive
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Leah Ujda from UW-Madison Digital Collections
In collaboration with libraries and archives across Wisconsin, UWDCC creates and provides access to digital resources that uniquely document the University and the state.( State of Wisconsin and/or University of Wisconsin collections )
Wisconsin Heritage Online (Wisconsin Heritage online)
Emily Pfotenhauer, Wisconsin Heritage Online Outreach Specialist
WHO aims to expand access to Wisconsin’s cultural heritage resources by assisting cultural heritage institutions to digitize content.
3:00 End of Day
Profile
Karen Coyle has over two decades of experience in digital libraries. She has recently worked for the Division of Library Automation at the University of California and the California Digital Library. She is a well-known metadata expert and has served on the MARC standards committee, the NISO OpenURL committee, and has advised in the development of MODS and other metadata efforts.
While active in developing computer systems for libraries, she is outspoken about the effects, both negative and positive, electronic information is having on the social role of libraries. She has published numerous articles on practical and policy questions relating to the “new information order.” She has been instrumental in developing an awareness of the relationship between technology and privacy, both in libraries and in the general public. She is leading the Office for Information Technology Policy’s task force on ebooks, which fosters library participation in arenas where both policy and technology are being developed that may determine the future of reading. Karen testified before the Copyright Office hearings on the role of technological controls and the doctrine of First Sale.
Karen is a long-time activist with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, for whom she designed their best-seller t-shirt that reads: Question Technology. Learn more about Karen on her webpage and her blog.
What is Peer Council?
Peer Council is an assembly of technical services librarians in Wisconsin. The WiLS Peer Council meetings are an opportunity to learn new things, share information with peers, and interact with a heterogeneous group with shared common interests.