Agenda
(latest update: May 1, 2001)
| Day 1 | CONSER Orientation (West Dining Room, Madison Building, 6th floor) |
| 8:30-9:00 | Coffee and refreshments |
| 9:00-9:20 | Welcome and introductions |
| 9:20-10:30 | Panel discussion: How CONSER works: Pt. 1: In our libraries Panelists: Sue Fuller, Ruth Haas, David Van Hoy, Kevin McShane, Kristin Lindlan |
| 10:30-10:50 | Break |
| 10:50-12:00 | Panel discussion: How CONSER works: Pt. 2: LC and OCLC Panelists: Lucy Barron, Robert Bremer, Judy Kuhagen, Simone Jones, John Levy, Les Hawkins, Tom Yee |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch |
| Gather after lunch outside the West Dining Room where guides will lead you to break out sessions. | |
| Breakout sessions repeated three times in the afternoon. See a description of discussion topics. | |
| Each group will have a discussion leader and note taker. Discussion leaders will be preassigned. Notes are to be taken only for ideas to be shared with others, action items, etc. A session can be skipped in order to work one-on-one with another individual. | |
| 1:00-1:50 | Session 1
A. Problems from home (LM 508) |
| 2:00-2:50 |
Session 2 A. Problems from home (LM 508) |
| 3:00-3:45 | Break with SRD catalogers (LM 511) |
| 3:45-4:30 | Session 3
A. Problems from home (LM 508) |
| 4:30-5:00 | Wrap-up (Serial Record Division, LM 511) |
| General discussion on what we've learned; usefulness of the sessions, things we want to share with everyone. | |
| DAY 2 | CONSER and BIBCO (Mumford Room, Madison Building 6th floor) |
| 9:00 | Welcome and introductions (Alford, Cristán, Hirons) |
| 9:15-10:00 |
A. Warm-up discussion: Metadata, your library, and the PCC (Doc.
A1) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Automation updates and discussion (Calhoun) Automated classification (Doc. A2 ) Batchloading (Doc. A3 ) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Utilities updating and reporting from the PCC wish list (Doc. A4) (Bremer, Whitacre, Glazier) |
| 11:30-12:00 | B. Multiple manifestations: final report of the task force, discussion, and next steps (Doc. B1 ) |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00-1:30 | C. Update on AACR2 revision and MARBI proposals (Doc.C1) (Hirons) |
| 1:30-3:00 | Implementing Integrating Resources: interim report of the task force, discussion, recommendations (Bross and Wright) (Docs., C2, C3) |
| 3:00-3:20 | Break |
| 3:20-3:45 |
D. Standards
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| 3:45-4:15 | E. Training update and discussion (Hixson; for background see: Training Task Group reports available on SCT home page) |
| 4:15-4:30 | Wrap up |
| 5:00 | Leave for cruise; boarding 6:30-7:15 |
| DAY 3 | CONSER Meeting (West Dining Room) |
| 8:45-9:15 | Coffee |
| 9:15-10:30 | F. Discussion of MARBI proposals for multiple 260 fields and bibliographic level code "i", AACR revision, and documentation (Docs. F1 ) |
| 10:30-10:50 | G. USNP and CONSER (Harriman, Hirons) |
| 10:50-11:10 | Break |
| 11:10-12:00 | H. Publication Pattern Initiative: discussion of goals and accomplishments, demos of techniques for adding patterns (Doc. H1 ) |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00-1:45 | I. Serials and your OPACIs it time to rethink exceptions to MARC required by LC: (e.g., mandatory use of the 310 and 580 (with multiple 7XX fields) |
| 1:45-2:45 | J. E-serial issues
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| 2:45-3:00 | Break |
| 3:00-3:30 | K. CONSER visioning ideas: next steps, action items?
(Doc. K1)Should CONSER broaden its scope, for example to include non-English language, non-MARC, non-AACR2 records, or to include non-cataloging activities (e.g., indexing journals not covered by standard indexes)? |
| 3:30-3:45 | Wrapup |
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[Further discussion on issues can take place in Serial Record Division; or participants may want to group for happy hour!] |
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