
Hi All, Sorry for cross-posting. Please join us on Zoom for weekly one hour presentations, held on Thursday mornings at 11am throughout September 2021 and into October. The talks are on a variety of topics and are open to everyone, whatever your role or level of knowledge. Sessions will last for up to an hour, including presentations of around 40 minutes and time for Q&A and networking. Please see the schedule below, and the attached programme with abstracts for further details. Thursday 9th September 2021, 11am * LIANZA CatSIG AGM Joanne Rowan, CatSIG Chair, Scholarly Content Advisor, University of Auckland Libraries and Learning Services | Te Tumu Herenga * Oceania RDA Committee (ORDAC) and National Library of New Zealand update Anoushka McGuire, Chair, Oceania RDA Committee (ORDAC), Team Leader, Cataloguing Teams 1 & 2, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand Thursday 16th September 2021, 11am * Weaving Te Ao Māori and the cataloguing world to provide better access to resources for Māori Raewyn Paewai (Rangitane) Turama Resources Limited Ngā Upoku Tukutuku was developed by the Māori Subject Headings Project, jointly sponsored by LIANZA, Te Rōpū Whakahau, and the National Library. This talk is an introduction to Ngā Upoko Tukuktu. It is aimed at cataloguers who want to discover how it was created, where to find it, how the thesaurus uses a Māori world view to assign subject headings, and how it benefits users to find items within a framework they relate to. Thursday 23rd September 2021, 11am * Raising the subject - unpacking Library of Congress Subject Headings Catherine Amey, Authority Record Coordinator, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand How can we most usefully describe what a resource is about? This short talk is an introduction to Library of Congress Subject Headings, their application, limitations and potential. The talk will include a brief discussion of subject analysis, how to read LCSH authority records and the use of topical, geographic, time period and form subdivisions to refine subject access. Thursday 30th September 2021, 11am * New names and subjects - contributing New Zealand terms in an international context Catherine Amey Authority Record Coordinator, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand A window into the creation and updating of name and subject authority records through the NACO (Name Authority Cooperative Organisation) and SACO (Subject Authority Cooperative Organisation) programmes. I will explore how the National Library of New Zealand contributes to NACO and SACO, with some discussion around recording Indigenous names and privacy issues for personal names. Thursday 7th October 2021, 11am * How and why the Kōtui Cataloguing Working Group creates training videos Rebecca Keenan, Cataloguer, Dunedin Public Libraries Based on Kōtui consortium member requests for training resources, the Cataloguing Working Group (CWG) is creating short training videos, each focused on a specific topic. These are aimed at cataloguing beginners, staff with minimal cataloguing experience, or those looking to refresh/reaffirm their knowledge. In this presentation, we will provide background information about the CWG, outline our project parameters – including topics covered and processes used – and discuss where to from here. Registerhttps://lianza.wildapricot.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipien... to watch the free events live online via Zoom, or to watch the recording afterwards. Regards Joanne Rowan CatSIG Convenor c/o Metadata Libraries and Learning Services University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland Mail Centre Auckland 1142 New Zealand Phone: 649 3737 599 extn 87725 Fax: 649 3737 401 Email: jf.rowan@auckland.ac.nzmailto:jf.rowan@auckland.ac.nz
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Joanne Rowan