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I won't be there.  But if you all are going to talk about "metadata", please
use plain English.  A good example of using very convoluted and dense
English can be found in the current issue of Cataloging and Classification
Quarterly.  If you cannot say it in 25 words or less, guys and gals, go back
to the drawing board.



Gene Fieg
Cataloger
Claremont School of Theology
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-----Original Message-----
From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Antony Robert David Franks
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 8:07 AM
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Subject: ALA: PCC Participants' Meeting

Save the date!

The PCC Participants' Meeting at ALA--Midwinter will be Sunday, 20 January
2006, 4:00--6:00 pm in the Gonzales Convention Center, 217B

Our program speaker, Karen Calhoun, AUL for Technical Services at Cornell
University Library, will speak on the future of catalogers, cataloging,
metadata, and metadata specialists.  Catalog librarians have the potential
to leverage their expertise to make enormous contributions to their
communities and to next-generation information discovery and delivery
systems, provided they focus on the needs that catalog librarians meet,
rather than the methods they use.

Library catalogers have justifiably taken pride in their role as the
creators of tools that connect their communities to the information they
need, thus contributing significantly to the saving of time and the progress
of science.  Yet in the increasingly interconnected world of the Web,
readers behave more and more self-sufficiently, choosing simple but powerful
search services like Google and moving well beyond library catalogs in their
pursuit of information. How can catalogers continue to contribute to saving
readers' time and advancing the state of knowledge in this kind of world?

See you in San Antonio.

Anthony R.D. Franks
Team Leader, Cooperative Cataloging Team
Library of Congress
202-707-2822 (voice)
202-252-2082 (fax)