Facts, Stats, and Much More: The Library of Congress ALA Midwinter 2013 Update
Twice each year, as the ALA Annual Conference and the ALA Midwinter Meeting begin, the Library of Congress (LC) publishes an in-depth update about what they’ve been up to since the previous meeting or conference.
The update is loaded with facts, stats, personnel updates, and loads of other information.
Here’s a direct link to: Update for 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting: June-December 2012. The author of the document is Roberta Shaffer, Associate Librarian for Library Services.
What’s included in the report? Here’s a SMALL sample.
- Update from the U.S. Copyright Office
- Technical Upgrades to Electronic Systems
- Section 108 Reform
- International Copyright
- Office Of The Librarian / Congressional Relations Office (CRO)
- Library Appropriations
- Legislative Branch Information Transparency
- Library Service
- Collection Development
- Defining Copyright Best Edition
- eDeposit and eAcquisitions
- New Areas of Acquisition
- New Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
- Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate
- ECIP E-books Pilot
- RDA training
- ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)
- Policy and Standards: Bibliographic Description
- Library of Congress-Program for Cooperative Cataloging Policy Statements
- ALA-LC Romanization Tables
- Experiment to Add 072 Fields to Subject Authority Records
- Library of Congress Acquisitions and Cataloging Production (Statistics For FY 2010, 2011, 2012)
- Collections and Services Directorate
- FRD Country Studies
- FRD POW/MIA Database
- Flickr Commons Pilot Project
- National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)–Chronicling America
- Partnerships and Outreach Programs Directorate (POP)
- National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
- Preservation Directorate
- Image-To-Sound Tools Software Development
- Office Of Strategic Initiatives
- LD’s Linked Data Service (ID/LDS) Project
- LCCN Permalink
- LC Persistent Identifiers
- Managing the Library’s Digital Collections
- Digital Portal Project
- National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
- Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI)
See Also: Past LC Updates From ALA Conferences Back to the 2009 Annual Conference
- Library of Congress Update for the 2012 ALA Annual Conference
- Library of Congress Update for the 2012 ALA Midwinter Meeting
- Library of Congress Update for the 2011 ALA Annual Conference
- Library of Congress Update for the 2011 ALA Midwinter Meeting
- Library of Congress Update for the 2010 ALA Annual Conference
- Library of Congress Update for the 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting
- Library of Congress Update for the 2009 ALA Annual Conference
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.