The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has named Kelley McGrath, cataloging & metadata services librarian (audio-visual) at Ball State University, Muncie, Ind., the winner of the 2010 Esther J. Piercy Award. The award will be presented on Sunday, June 27, at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the 2010 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.  The full press release is available on the ALA web site.

On behalf of the Nancy B. Olson Award committee, it is my pleasure to announce that Julie Renee Moore, catalog librarian at the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno, is the 2010 recipient of the Nancy B. Olson Award presented by the OnLine Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc.

Thanks to Scott M. Dutkiewicz the LCSH Moving Image Genre-Form Headings, list has been updated through February 5, 2010 (List 5) it is available here as a PDF document or on Classification Web.

The Executive Board agreed at the meeting yesterday, to form a new Website Steering Committee to improve linking ability and to update information on the web-pages.  We are asking for two or three volunteers to work with the current President on this.  Next year the OLAC Past-president will take over these responsibilities so that there is both access to the executive board when needed and continuity on the Committee.  I am hoping that one person will volunteer for two years and one/two people will volunteer for a one year term.  If you would like to volunteer for this o