Keynote Speakers
Opening address - Jennifer Bowen
Developing RDA (Resource Description and Access): Envisioning a cataloging standard for a digital future
As a new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world, RDA: Resource Description and Access will provide:
- a flexible framework for describing digital (and all other) resources
- data that is readily adaptable to newly emerging database structures
- data that is compatible with existing records in online library catalogs.
Is it possible to develop a new cataloging standard that can serve the needs of emerging metadata communities as well as those of more traditional library cataloging? Could such a standard be accepted internationally but also adaptable to the needs of a single institution?
The OLAC Keynote Address will describe international efforts underway to develop RDA, the relationship of RDA to other standards (including AACR2), and how library cataloging will be affected when RDA is published in 2008.
Jennifer Bowen is Head of Cataloging at the University of Rochester and Head of Technical Services at the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music. She currently serves as the ALA Representative to the Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (AACR), which is developing a new content standard for resource description to replace AACR2, entitled RDA: Resource Description and Access. Jennifer is a Past Chair of the ALA/ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section, and was recently Chair of the Joint Steering Committee's Format Variation Working Group. She has also served on the Policy Committee of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging and as Chair of the Music Library Association's Bibliographic Control Committee. Jennifer is a frequent speaker on the future of descriptive cataloging standards as well as on the FRBR data model. Her article, "FRBR: Coming soon to YOUR Library?", published in Library Resources and Technical Services 49 no. 3 (2005), is the winner of the 2005 ALCTS "Best of LRTS" Award.
Closing address - Dr. John Howard
From Technical Services to Knowledge Management Services: Confronting Knowledge Organization in a Post-Disciplinary World
Dr. Howard will speak about the changing nature of knowledge and the knowledge marketplace and its impact on the future of knowledge organization systems and services in libraries.
Dr. John B Howard is Associate Dean of Libraries at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. John is responsible for library services that are delivered centrally to all four ASU campuses, including digital library services and all library technology functions, the metadata and technical processing areas, and the University Archives and Special Collections. He is deeply engaged in development of a new suite of digital library services that target not only ASU’s core population of more than 70,000 faculty and students, he is also developing services to meet the needs of an increasingly large and amorphous population of continuing ed students (expected to reach 100,000) and many industrial and government partnerships.
John came to ASU in 2005 after 25 years at Harvard University, where positions held included: Sound Recordings Cataloger; Keeper of the Isham Memorial Library; Richard F. French Librarian of the Loeb Music Library; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music; Librarian for Information Technology in the Harvard College Library; and Associate Director for Informatics and Technology Research at Harvard Medical School.
