[Metadatalibrarians] ALA Midwinter: Call for Speakers -- ALCTS Networked Resources & Metadata Interest Group

[Joanna Burgess]

The ALCTS NRMIG Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group  
welcomes your proposal for informal presentations at its meeting at  
the ALA Midwinter Conference in Philadelphia, Sunday, January 13,  
2008, from 8:00-10:00 am. Presentations and discussion topics should  
focus on current practices, tools, or research affecting networked  
resources and metadata.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
best practices; metadata schemes, content standards, and controlled  
vocabularies; crosswalking and interoperability; metadata harvesting;  
search engines; metadata display and user interfaces; technical and  
preservation metadata; visual resources metadata; institutional  
repository metadata.

Presentations should be roughly 15-25 minutes in length. After each  
presentation, there will be an opportunity for general discussion. To  
submit a proposal, please email one of us a brief description of your  
proposed topic. Alternately, please consider posting suggestions for  
additional topics to the list, or emailing your suggestion directly to  
one of us.

Thank you,

Erin Stalberg, NRMIG Secretary
erin_stalberg at ncsu.edu

Joanna Burgess, NRMIG Volunteer
burgessj at reed.edu

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Joanna Burgess
Digital Assets Librarian
Reed College Library
503-517-7629