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Big Heads Minutes - ALA Annual (June 22, 2007)
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Reports and Minutes from the January 2007 Big Heads Meeting

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Note: The ALA annual 2007 meeting of ALCTS Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries (Big Heads) will be held on June 22 (9:30am-12:30 pm) at the Library of Congress in the following location:

Montpelier Room
6th floor
James Madison Memorial Building
101 Independence Avenue, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20540

If traveling by subway, exit at the Capitol South Station (orange/blue line) and cross over First & C Streets, S.E. to the James Madison Memorial Building. Enter the building at the rear and take the yellow core elevators to the 6th floor. The Montpelier Room is adjacent to the Library's main cafeteria. Library of Congress will be hosting a luncheon during the meeting in an adjoining room to the Montpelier Room.

Reports for ALA Annual, Washington, DC: Jun 2007

• Columbia University -- Word | PDF [30KB / 2 pages]
• Cornell University - Word | PDF [30KB / 2 pages]
• Duke University -- Word | PDF [19KB / 2 pages]
• Indiana University - Word | PDF [55KB / 3 pages]
• Library of Congress - Word | PDF [39KB / 5 pages]
• National Agricultural Library - Word | PDF [42KB / 4 pages]
• National Library of Medicine - Word | PDF [42KB / 5 pages]
• New York Public Library -- Word | PDF [27KB / 1 page]
• New York University -- Word | PDF [18KB / 1 page]
• Ohio State University - Word | PDF [24KB / 2 pages]
• Penn State University -- Word | PDF [34KB / 3 pages]
• Princeton University - Word | PDF [16KB / 2 pages]
• Stanford University - Word | PDF [31KB / 2 pages]
• University of British Columbia - Word | PDF [18KB / 1 page]
• University of California at Berkeley -- Word | PDF [19KB / 2 pages]
• University of Chicago -- Word | PDF [25KB / 3 pages]
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Word | PDF
  [18KB / 1 page]
• University of Michigan - Word | PDF [14KB / 2 pages]
• University of Minnesota - Word | PDF [29KB / 3 pages]
• University of North Carolina - Word | PDF [24KB / 4 pages]
• University of Pennsylvania - Word | PDF [28KB / 2 pages]
• University of Texas - Word | PDF [15KB / 1 page]
• University of Virginia -- Word | PDF [15KB / 2 pages]
• University of Washington - Word | PDF [15KB / 1 page]
• University of Wisconsin at Madison -- Word | PDF [15KB / 2 pages]
• Yale University - Word | PDF [35KB / 3 pages]

ALCTS Heads of Technical Services of Large Research Libraries Discussion Group
Annual Meeting Agenda
Library of Congress, Montpelier Room
June 22, 2007
9:30 - 12:30
PDF [11 KB/1 page]

1. Welcome, introductions, announcements
(K. Farrell, 5-10 minutes)

2. Nomination and election of chair-elect.
(10 minutes)

3. Cataloging and metadata initiatives updates:
(90  minutes)

a) Future of Bibliographic Control: update on progress (Bob Wolven and Chris Cole)

b) Report from the recent meeting at the British Library on RDA and FRBR (John Attig, ALA representative to the Joint Steering Committee)

c) Richcat initiative: update on the current state of the project (Robert Kieft)

d) Automating Metadata Generation: update on progress (Michael Norman)         

Break 20 minutes

4. De-coupling user interface from the back end systems: what this trend means for the work we do. (John Riemer and Bob Wolven )
(30 Minutes)
 
5.  Integrating e-resource workflow into Technical Services routines (Group)

6. Wrap up and plans for next meeting
(Katharine Farrell, 10 minutes)