RLG Members' Forum, August 2006

'More, Better, Faster, Cheaper'

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Keynote
Mark Dimunation (Chief of Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress)
"Most of us in this room hold substantial arrearages of research materials that are inaccessible, because they lack some level of cataloging description. Most of us, including this speaker, still work with a bibliographic catalog that is only partially converted to digital form."

'Visual resources cataloging'
Katherine Haskins (Project Director, Integrated Digital Image Resources, Yale University Library)

'Web archiving'
Ann Wheeler (Reference and Instruction Librarian, McCabe Library, Swarthmore College)

Describing and sharing digital images in a museum setting
—Kenneth Hamma (Executive Director for Digital Policy, J. Paul Getty Trust)
—Erin Coburn, (Manager, Collections Information, J. Paul Getty Museum)

'The Art Museum Community Cataloguing Project'
Daniel Starr (Manager of Bibliographic Operations, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

'PennTags'
Michael Winkler (Director of Information Technologies & Digital Development, University of Pennsylvania Library)

The future of MARC
—William E. Moen (Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas)
—Sally McCallum (Chief, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress)

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