The Library of Congress will be offering tours, presentations, exhibits,
and much more during ALA (see http://lcweb.loc.gov/ala for more
information). The Cataloging Directorate will be giving two presentations
during this time. They will be:

BeOnline: A Demonstration
June 28, 11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
BeOnline is the Library of Congress project to make electronic resources
in the fields of business and economics on other World Wide Web sites
accessible via the Library of Congress Web site. David Williamson,
cataloging automation specialist, will demonstrate BeOnline automation
initiatives. Allene Hayes, BeOnline project leader, and Regina Reynolds,
project member, will discuss its use for business and economics collection
development and the issues arising from remote access to external
resources and the cataloging of electronic resources. The Digital Library
Visitors' Center is located in the Atrium adjacent to the front lobby of
the James Madison Memorial Building. (Limited to 55 participants,
Reservations are required: http://lcweb.loc.gov/ala/ala-reg.html)


Digital Table of Contents: A Demonstration
June 28, 12:00-12:30 p.m.
For years libraries nationwide have been eager to make tables of contents
accessible through the public catalog. David Williamson, cataloging
automation specialist, and Robert August, automated operations
coordinator, will demonstrate the Library of Congress project encoding
tables of contents with a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) wrapper, using
scanning and optical character recognition techniques and hotlinking the
856 field in the bibliographic record to the table of contents by a
totally automated process. The Digital Library Visitors' Center is located
in the Atrium adjacent to the front lobby of the James Madison Memorial
Building. (Limited to 55 participants, reservations are required:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/ala/ala-reg.html)


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| David Williamson |
| Cataloging Automation Specialist |
| Cataloging Directorate |
| Library of Congress |
| Washington, D.C. 20540-4300 |
| 202.707.5179 (voice) |
| 202.707.2824 (fax) |
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