Cataloging and RDA Webinars

Catalogers, librarians, and staff; department heads who will be planning RDA implementation; and library directors who need to understand the benefits and importance of implementing RDA should reserve an hour for an ALCTS webinar.

Upcoming Webinars

All last approximately 1 hour beginning at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, 2pm Eastern. Check the page for each session for pricing information and a link to registration.

Topic
Finding Savings in the Collection Budget
Copyright and Contracts: Moving Beyond Text in IRs
Changes from AACR2 to RDA. Part 1
Services Lead to Success: Strategies for Repository Growth
Changes from AACR2 to RDA. Part 2
Selecting an IR Platform: Options, Approaches, and Implications
Effective Subscription Management and Alternatives
RDA Ask-the-Experts Webinar
Preparing for the Worst: Disaster Planning for High Density Storage
Cataloging Icky Things, or, If You Can Catalog a Book, You Can Catalog Anything!
The Black, White, and Gray Areas of Licensing: A Review and Update for Librarians and Publishers
RDA and Serials Catalogers: Will Our Work Really Change?
Steps in a Digital Preservation Workflow
How to Present a Webinar
RDA and Moving Images
Linked Library Data: Tuning Library Metadata for the Semantic Web
Libraries and MARC Holdings: From Works to Items
Culling Your Collection: The Fine Art of Weeding
Making the Most of Your Descriptive Metadata: Planning, Transforming, and Re-using
Cataloging Three-Dimensional Objects and Kits with RDA
Challenge the Status Quo: When the IR comes to Access Services
Preparing Copy Catalogers for RDA
Institutional Repositories: The Promises of Yesterday and of Tomorrow
More Product, Less Process: Why It Matters to Archivists, Librarians, and Researchers
Repository Metadata: Challenges of Interoperability
The Rise and Fall of Reference Collections: Strategies for Managing Change
You Ought to be in Pictures: Bringing Streaming Video to Your Library
Taking Care: Family Textiles
Accidents Happen: Protecting & Saving Family Treasures
Preserving Your Personal Digital Photographs
Protecting Future Access Now
The Consortial-Campus View: Reinventing the IR from All Directions
Preserving Your Personal Digital Memories
Organizing the Evaluation of Electronic Resources
Beyond the Institutional Repository: Campus Research Distribution Strategies
Archival 101: Dealing with Suppliers of Archival Products
Engaging Your Campus in Utilizing Institutional Repositories
Disaster Preparedness and Planning
Mold Prevention and Remediation
Perpetual Beta: Early Literature about Institutional Repositories and What Assessment Can Tell Us Now
Rare Materials and RDA: Exploring the Issues
Cases and Commentaries: Intellectual Property Issues for Librarians
Archival Materials: Using RDA with DACS
Reengineering the Institutional Repository to Engage Users
Cataloging more icky things, or, If you can catalog a book, you can catalog this stuff too!
Disaster Response
Generating Campus Buy-In for Your IR
Demystifying Library Standards
Aiming for a Robust Metadata Infrastructure for the Future
Continuity of Operations after a Disaster
The Art of Scanning
Recommendations from the RDA Test: Where Do We Go From Here?
Book Repair Basics for Libraries
Floating Collections: Building on Your Patrons' Horizons
Introduction to RDA
Open Access: Key Trends
ONIX for Serials
RDA and Cartographic Materials: Mapping a New Route
Using Web 2.0 Applications in Technical Services
The CONSER Standard Record: Where Are We Now?
Buying Library Materials on the Out-of-Print Book Market
Constructing the Future Library: Architectural and Digital Considerations
RDA for Administrators: Managing the Transition in Your Library
Digital Preservation: An Introduction to the Basic Concepts
RDA and Music Basics: Scores
RDA and Music Basics: Sound Recordings
Maximizing Revenue from Selling withdrawn Books and Unwanted Gifts
Yours, Mine, Ours? Copyright Ownership and IRs
Cataloging Law Materials with RDA
RDA: Benefits for Users and Cataloguers
ISSN and You: Using ISSN SuperNumber in the Digital Environment
Bringing Research Data into the Library: Expanding the Horizons of Institutional Repositories
Introduction to Sears Subject Headings I
Promoting Institutional Repositories on and off Campus
Don’t Tilt at Windmills, an Active Learning Approach to Teaching FRBR
You Want Me to Select for What? Getting Started in a New Area
Datasets for Publication: Standards and Issues
Introduction to Sears Subject Headings II
2CUL: Cornell/Columbia Next Gen Tech Services
FRBR as a Foundation for RDA
The Potential of Partnerships: Dissolving Silos for a Successful IR Implementation
Using the Library of Congress Classification H Schedule
Using the Library of Congress Classification P Schedule
The Future of the Integrated Library System?
Demand-Driven Acquisitions, part 1
Demand-Driven Acquisitions, part 2
Holdings Comparisons: Why Are They So Complicated?
Principles of Classification
Universal Access to All Knowledge
The Art of Selecting Digital Content to Preserve
The Role of Long-Term Storage in Digital Curation
Really Mystified: Creating the Sudden Selector's Guide to Chemistry Resources
Writing and Citing: Creating the Sudden Selector's Guide to Biology Resources
RDA in 10 Easy Steps
Recording RDA Elements in MARC 21 Fields in Name Authority Records
RDA Name Authorities—What's New and Different from AACR2
RDA for the Non-Cataloger: What’s in It for You?
Transitioning from Cataloging to Creating Metadata
Archival 101: Dealing with Suppliers of Archival Products
The Preservation of Family Photographs
Personal Digital Archiving
CONSER RDA Core Elements for Serials
Programmatic Changes to the LC/NACO Authority File for RDA
Hosting a Personal Digital Archiving Day Event
Technical Services Librarians Matter at Your Library: Finding a Career in Technical Services
Challenges with Linked Data in Libraries
Mobilizing the Library
Virtual Preconference: Loan Agreements for Exhibits Materials
Virtual Preconference: Shared Collection Development

Registration

To register, complete the online registration form or register by mail for the session(s) you would like to attend.

Fees

Pricing information for webinar sessions is listed on each webinar page. All webinars are recorded and the one-time fee includes unlimited access to the webinar recording. All registered attendees will receive the link to the recorded session, so if you are unable to attend the webinar at the time it is presented, you will have the opportunity to listen to the recording at your convenience.

Sessions in a series may be purchased individually.

New RDA Webinars

More sessions are being planned—please let the RDA Planning and Training Task Force know if you have topics you would like to see addressed. Contact Kate Harcourt or Mary Woodley.   

Previous Webinars

NEW! Check out all of the free RDA webinars on the ALCTS YouTube Channel.

Webinar recordings are available for purchase for 2 weeks after the live event:

Recent webinars are held for 90 days:

These webinar recordings are available at no cost:

Topic
Finding Savings in the Collection Budget
Copyright and Contracts: Moving Beyond Text in IRs
Changes from AACR2 to RDA. Part 1
Services Lead to Success: Strategies for Repository Growth
Changes from AACR2 to RDA. Part 2
Selecting an IR Platform: Options, Approaches, and Implications
Effective Subscription Management and Alternatives
RDA Ask-the-Experts Webinar
Preparing for the Worst: Disaster Planning for High Density Storage
Cataloging Icky Things, or, If You Can Catalog a Book, You Can Catalog Anything!
The Black, White, and Gray Areas of Licensing: A Review and Update for Librarians and Publishers
RDA and Serials Catalogers: Will Our Work Really Change?
Steps in a Digital Preservation Workflow
How to Present a Webinar
RDA and Moving Images
Linked Library Data: Tuning Library Metadata for the Semantic Web
Libraries and MARC Holdings: From Works to Items
Culling Your Collection: The Fine Art of Weeding
Making the Most of Your Descriptive Metadata: Planning, Transforming, and Re-using
Cataloging Three-Dimensional Objects and Kits with RDA
Challenge the Status Quo: When the IR comes to Access Services
Preparing Copy Catalogers for RDA
Institutional Repositories: The Promises of Yesterday and of Tomorrow
More Product, Less Process: Why It Matters to Archivists, Librarians, and Researchers
Repository Metadata: Challenges of Interoperability
The Rise and Fall of Reference Collections: Strategies for Managing Change
You Ought to be in Pictures: Bringing Streaming Video to Your Library
Taking Care: Family Textiles
Accidents Happen: Protecting & Saving Family Treasures
Preserving Your Personal Digital Photographs
Protecting Future Access Now
The Consortial-Campus View: Reinventing the IR from All Directions
Preserving Your Personal Digital Memories
Organizing the Evaluation of Electronic Resources
Beyond the Institutional Repository: Campus Research Distribution Strategies
Archival 101: Dealing with Suppliers of Archival Products
Engaging Your Campus in Utilizing Institutional Repositories
Disaster Preparedness and Planning
Mold Prevention and Remediation
Perpetual Beta: Early Literature about Institutional Repositories and What Assessment Can Tell Us Now
Rare Materials and RDA: Exploring the Issues
Cases and Commentaries: Intellectual Property Issues for Librarians
Archival Materials: Using RDA with DACS
Reengineering the Institutional Repository to Engage Users
Cataloging more icky things, or, If you can catalog a book, you can catalog this stuff too!
Disaster Response
Generating Campus Buy-In for Your IR
Demystifying Library Standards
Aiming for a Robust Metadata Infrastructure for the Future
Continuity of Operations after a Disaster
The Art of Scanning
Recommendations from the RDA Test: Where Do We Go From Here?
Book Repair Basics for Libraries
Floating Collections: Building on Your Patrons' Horizons
Introduction to RDA
Open Access: Key Trends
ONIX for Serials
RDA and Cartographic Materials: Mapping a New Route
Using Web 2.0 Applications in Technical Services
The CONSER Standard Record: Where Are We Now?
Buying Library Materials on the Out-of-Print Book Market
Constructing the Future Library: Architectural and Digital Considerations
RDA for Administrators: Managing the Transition in Your Library
Digital Preservation: An Introduction to the Basic Concepts
RDA and Music Basics: Scores
RDA and Music Basics: Sound Recordings
Maximizing Revenue from Selling withdrawn Books and Unwanted Gifts
Yours, Mine, Ours? Copyright Ownership and IRs
Cataloging Law Materials with RDA
RDA: Benefits for Users and Cataloguers
ISSN and You: Using ISSN SuperNumber in the Digital Environment
Bringing Research Data into the Library: Expanding the Horizons of Institutional Repositories
Introduction to Sears Subject Headings I
Promoting Institutional Repositories on and off Campus
Don’t Tilt at Windmills, an Active Learning Approach to Teaching FRBR
You Want Me to Select for What? Getting Started in a New Area
Datasets for Publication: Standards and Issues
Introduction to Sears Subject Headings II
2CUL: Cornell/Columbia Next Gen Tech Services
FRBR as a Foundation for RDA
The Potential of Partnerships: Dissolving Silos for a Successful IR Implementation
Using the Library of Congress Classification H Schedule
Using the Library of Congress Classification P Schedule
The Future of the Integrated Library System?
Demand-Driven Acquisitions, part 1
Demand-Driven Acquisitions, part 2
Holdings Comparisons: Why Are They So Complicated?
Principles of Classification
Universal Access to All Knowledge
The Art of Selecting Digital Content to Preserve
The Role of Long-Term Storage in Digital Curation
Really Mystified: Creating the Sudden Selector's Guide to Chemistry Resources
Writing and Citing: Creating the Sudden Selector's Guide to Biology Resources
RDA in 10 Easy Steps
Recording RDA Elements in MARC 21 Fields in Name Authority Records
RDA Name Authorities—What's New and Different from AACR2
RDA for the Non-Cataloger: What’s in It for You?
Transitioning from Cataloging to Creating Metadata
Archival 101: Dealing with Suppliers of Archival Products
The Preservation of Family Photographs
Personal Digital Archiving
CONSER RDA Core Elements for Serials
Programmatic Changes to the LC/NACO Authority File for RDA
Hosting a Personal Digital Archiving Day Event
Technical Services Librarians Matter at Your Library: Finding a Career in Technical Services
Challenges with Linked Data in Libraries
Mobilizing the Library
Virtual Preconference: Loan Agreements for Exhibits Materials
Virtual Preconference: Shared Collection Development

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Questions

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration: call 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or jreese@ala.org.