Hello Mountain West ARLISians!

IAIA in Santa Fe is hiring! Applications are accepted through Aug. 14 for their Public and Technical Services Librarian position: https://recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Jobs/Details/1800414. You can find answers to general questions on their HR site: https://iaia.edu/about/employment/.

Hello Mountain West Chapter!

One of the projects of the executive committee has been to overhaul our chapter bylaws and we’re ready to distribute them for comment! Here is a link to the draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ynbCaLGwCmK4WGj-f3nLMJKwdUxTz0U785fNnePnAQ/edit?usp=sharing. All changes are marked in track changes for ease. If y…[Read more]

ALA Core Metadata and Collections Section

Subject Analysis Committee

Report from June 2023 meetings

The June 2023 SAC meetings were held virtually on 14-16 June 2023. Relevant documents are posted on the SAC Public Space on ALA Connect.https://connect.ala.org/core/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=f0f2a3bc-328d-47ac-a0db-8cc40d7fef1f

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Dear Colleagues,

Save the date! The Academic Library Division will be hosting an open forum on Tuesday, August 8th at 2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT. The hour-long open forum will be a discussion centered around the transition from summer to the academic year. Forum topics will include the kinds of work many of us do over the summer, such as collection…[Read more]

I’m looking for technical services librarians who have a background in Medieval Studies to join a hybrid roundtable discussion at next year’s International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 9-11, 2024). If you held a technical services role (considered broadly) at any point in your career, and you studied any aspect of the…[Read more]

Hi all!

Is there any interest in reviving the Postcards from the Edge series of workshops at ARLIS 2024? For those who don’t remember it, PftE was a hands-on workshop series where we covered “art-adjacent” fields like theatre, film studies, media & TV, etc. (In other words: fields academic art librarians frequently cover, often with little formal…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

During my presentation in Mexico City I mentioned that Marnie Powers-Torrey and I would be hiring a NEH-funded Visual Books Project Assistant to work on metadata and controlled vocabularies for artists’ books and fine press books. The job posting is now live: https://employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-city-ut/visual-books-projects-assistan…[Read more]

Hello Mountain West ARLISians!

Chapter leadership is excited to announce a new slate of programming. Based on feedback at the annual meeting and our survey from about a month ago, starting in August we’ll be hosting a get together at 4:00 MT/3:00 PT on the third Tuesday of the month. We’re planning for each meeting to be “hosted” by someone…[Read more]

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From: Frank, Paul <pfrank@loc.gov>
Date: Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 7:48 AM
Subject: [PCCLIST] NACO Online Training Workshop: September 2023
To: <PCCLIST@listserv.loc.gov>

Hi everyone,

ok, the cat is out of the bag (and will be well taken care of).

Back in 2012, when online training options became more a…[Read more]

Hi folks, I asked this in Troublesome Catalogers and Magical Metadata Fairies so apologies for cross-posting but I figured folks here would likely be able to help me with this.

I’m updating some documentation that I inherited and there’s something I’ve been confused about.

“The AACR2r rule is that when a book contains reproductions of an…[Read more]

The LCSH Monthly Tentative List for July (2307) is now out for comment.
https://classweb.org/tentative-subjects/2307.html

Let me know if you want to have comments passed on through ARLIS/NA or if
you have questions about a proposed heading.

The Subject Analysis Committee met virtually this past week. The reports
from the various organizations…[Read more]

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From: Dorie Kurtz <dkurtz@loc.gov>
Date: Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 4:16 PM
Subject: [SACOLIST] Summary of Decisions, Editorial Meeting Number 03,
March 17, 2023
To: <SACOLIST@listserv.loc.gov>

[ABA managers: Please forward to your staff.]

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
ACQUISITIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC ACCESS D…[Read more]