Description

In this 90-minute Metadata Managers Focus Group round-robin, staff from special libraries, including art libraries, independent research libraries, special collections, and rare books, will gather to discuss and exchange information about their cataloging and metadata management activities. This year, Metadata Managers have talked broadly about staffing, succession planning, new kinds of identity management, and emerging trends around AI. This meeting will be an opportunity to reflect on what these trends mean within the context of libraries with specialized operations and/or smaller footprints.

Facilitator

• Chloe Misorski, Cataloging Librarian, Cleveland Museum of Art
• Richard Urban, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research Library Partnership

Who should attend

Cataloging and metadata staff working in special libraries or special collections departments. We are eager to hear about current challenges and transitions to next-generation metadata formats.

Participants must be current members of the Metadata Managers Focus Group or may be nominated by their RLP institutional partner representative. Most participants will demonstrate leadership around metadata in their organizations (even if they don’t have supervisory responsibilities).

If you are interested in participating from an RLP institution, please:

• get in touch with Richard Urban or
  
• Subscribe to the Metadata Managers Focus Group Interest List.

Dates and times

• October 1, 2024 – 4:00-5:30 p.m. EDT / 9:00-10:30 pm BST / 1:00-2:30 pm PDT /6:00-7:30 am (October 2) AEST
•  October 9, 2024 – 9:00-10:30 a.m. EDT / 2:00-3:30 p.m. BST / 6:00-7:30 a.m. PDT / 11:00p.m. - 12:30 a.m. (Oct. 10) AEDT

Outputs

• A post-event summary will be published on Hanging Together, the OCLC Research blog.
  
  
• See all the posts from previous Metadata Managers Focus Group meetings.