“Standards are like toothbrushes, a good idea but no one wants to use anyone elses”

So quoted Anita Golderba during her presentation at the Cataloguing session at IFLA.
My remaining session notes are posted below. I am extremely late in posting them, but there are so many good ideas and points that were made by the presenters, I wanted to make them available.
Classification and Indexing
Classification and indexing without language borders 
Presenter:
Anila Angjeli, [...]

IFLA 2008: Management and Marketing, Statistics and Evaluations, and Library Theory and Research

Management and Marketing, Statistics and Evaluations, and Library Theory and Research
Managing libraries in a changing environment – legal, technical and organizational aspects
Presenters:
Ricardo Gomez/Chris Coward, University of Washington
Information technologies and how they are used are not limited to libraries. We need to think outside of these boundaries as well.
We need to think in terms of:
Equitable access [...]

IFLA 2008: Session on Bibliographic Control

I’ve finally had a chance to summarize some of the sessions that I attended while at IFLA. The Bibliographic Control session is summarized below.
Biblographic Control
New challenges in bibliographic control in North America
Presenter:
Liz McKeen, LAC
Challenges
Amount of digital materials. Traditional formats are not decreasing in production, but we have more and more digital information to organize and [...]

Karen Calhoun’s: The New World of Metadata

Last week, Karen Calhoun predicted that the future of cataloguers will be so bright, we’ll need shades.  As promised, Karen has now posted her powerpoint presentation from the Industry Symposia session: The New World of Metadata.
I attended this session and strongly recommend checking out the slides.  Karen provides her outlook on the future of cataloguing with thoughtful [...]

Exposing yourself, oops, your ILS through sharing technologies

Stephen Abram was also a presenter for several sessions at IFLA.  He has posted his slides on Stephen’s Lighthouse.   I think his IFLA Resource Sharing Satellite Conference, which took place in Boston, has the most informative slides.  Although simple, they serve as a reminder of what we’re facing and what we can achieve if we open ourselves up to [...]

“Future so bright, we’ll have to wear shades”

This was Karen Calhoun’s prediction for the future of cataloguing today at IFLA 2008.
Calhoun and Jay Jordan (OCLC’s president and CEO) spoke on The New World of Metadata – from OCLC’s point of view and thoughts on the future.
Calhoun’s powerpoint presentation this afternoon will be made available on the web in the near future.  In [...]

IFLA 2008 – The third day

It’s now the end of day 3 for IFLA 2008. One of my favourite things about conferences is the ability to meet people and network. I’ve met some terrific professional gurus, as well as promising young library students who will soon be entering the profession. The students I’m meeting are eager to join the profession [...]

IFLA 2008 – Quebec City

I can’t believe IFLA 2008 is a little over a week away.  This is my first IFLA conference and I’m very excited.  The program looks great and I know I’ll be attending as many sessions as I can fit in to my schedule.  I’d also like to connect with other professionals. 
Let me know if any of you are [...]