On Monday, February 26 at 11:15 AM, the Cataloging Section met for its annual meeting in the Madison room at the Midtown Hilton. Attendance was high, with at least 40 members in the room.
The meeting had a full agenda, beginning with the introduction of Emily Walz, Librarian in the Art & Architecture Collection at the New York Public Library, as the section’s new moderator. Adam Robinson, Cataloging and Metadata Services Librarian at the Phildelphia Museum of Art, was introduced as the new Vice Moderator/Moderator Elect.
Andrea Puccio from the Clark Art Library announced an opening for a paid 1-2 year fellowship position in her library. Maria Oldal from the Morgan Library made an announcement about a session taking place later in the conference about ARTFRAME.
Numerous section members gave reports and updates from various committees: Karen Stafford briefed the group on the ALA Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access, John Maier reported on the MARC Advisory Committee, Sherman Clarke gave an update on the activities of the ALA Subject Analysis Committee and the LCGFT (Library of Congress Genre Form Terms) Art Project, Bronwen Bitetti had report from ARLIS/NA’s own Cataloging Advisory Committee, and Marie-Chantal L’Ecuyer-Coelho presented on ARTFRAME.
After updates, Kelly Swikard, Resource Description Librarian at the Decker Library at the Maryland Institute College of Art, gave two mini-presentations: The Ties that Bind Books: Adding Creator Characteristics and Binding Fields to Artist Book Records and Cataloging in RDA for Art Exhibition Publications: A Practical Handout. The handouts will be posted on Catablog soon.
Discussion was then opened up to the group. Moderator Emily Walz gave an update about the Section’s blog, Catablog (catablogweb.wordpress.com). The blog was launched in late 2017, thanks to the efforts of outgoing moderator Chantal Sulkow. There was discussion about what the group would like to get out of the blog, and how to unify content the Section might find interesting or useful from multiple sources. The group was responsive to the idea of collaborating with other cataloging and metadata groups both within and outside of ARLIS/NA for generating content for the blog and developing future conference sessions. The group generated many ideas for future conference sessions they would like to see.
Thank you to everyone who attended this year’s meeting! It was a great group!
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