OLAC Newsletter
Vol. 29 | No. 1| March 2009

The OLAC Newsletter (ISSN: 0739-1153) is a quarterly publication of the Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc. appearing in March, June, September and December. Permission is granted to copy and disseminate information contained herein, provided the source is acknowledged.

In this issue

From the Editor

Treasurer's Report

OLAC Meeting Minutes:

• CAPC
• Executive Board
• Membership

Conference Reports:

• MARBI
• CC:DA
• AMIA

LC Update

MOUG/OLAC Liaison Report

Reports from the 2008 OLAC/MOUG
Conference, Part II:

Workshops:

• Elect. Resources
• Form/Genre Headings
• Integrating Resources
• Metadata for Audiovisual Materials
• Worldcat Local
• RDA Program
• Poster Sessions
  

News and Announcements

Announcement of New Officers

Book Reviews:

• Metadata
• Kidzcat

OLAC Cataloger's Judgment:

• Sounds & Silence
• Edition or contents
• Order of names in 505
• PowerPoint on CD-ROM
• Mysteries of the 007
• Which came 1st 508 or 511
• True colors
• Computer file vs. video
• Auteur theory questioned

News from OCLC

From the President
Robert Bothman

Dear OLAC Members,

Happy 2009 to you all. I hope this Newsletter finds you well in these dreadful economic times. As state budgets face major shortfalls and private industry cuts hundreds of thousands of jobs, I fear it is only a matter of time before OLAC begins to feel repercussions as well. Thankfully OLAC has a strong treasury at the moment, and as you will see from the 2008 OLAC-MOUG Conference report given in the membership meeting minutes, the conference was very successful and surpassed expectations of attendance, providing our organization, MOUG, and NOTSL with additional funds that will hopefully bear us through the next few years. Knowing that out-of-state travel has been limited or banned for many of us, the OLAC Executive Board has already begun some discussions on how to have virtual meetings for groups like CAPC and has begun thinking of ways we might also offer workshops regionally, particularly during non-conference years. If you have ideas, please feel free to share them with the Executive Board.

Normally OLAC holds elections for its elected Executive Board offices. This year our elections are "by acclamation," so you will not be receiving a ballot. I would like to extend congratulations to our new Vice President/President Elect, Nathan B. Putnam, George Mason University. Please also join me in thanking Greta deGroat, Stanford University, for her many years of service as the OLAC Liaison to CC:DA. I would also like to thank Martha Yee, UCLA Film & Television Archive, for filling in as the Liaison to CC:DA for OLAC at the past two ALA meetings. It is with pleasure that I also may introduce our new OLAC Liaison to CC:DA at this
time. Kelley McGrath, Ball State University will step into this role at the conclusion of her tenure as CAPC Chair at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference.

As this Newsletter goes to press, the Executive Board continues to work on the location for the 2010 OLAC Conference. Alas we do not have a decision to announce in this Newsletter, but one will be forthcoming and you will likely see it on the OLAC-L discussion list before the Newsletter arrives.

As mentioned in the From the Editor column, this will be the last year of print newsletters for the OLAC Newsletter. The cost of printing and mailing the newsletters continues to rise and requires an extraordinary amount of your membership dues to support the print version. Beginning in 2010, the OLAC Newsletter will transition to electronic only delivery and access. This will reduce our operating costs, allow us to maintain a dues structure for membership that is perhaps the lowest of any professional library organization, and allow OLAC to use these resources for other activities that promote best practices in special format cataloging.

Finally, OLAC is also looking for a new Newsletter Editor. If you are interested in this position, please contact me or Amy Weiss.

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From the Editor
Amy K. Weiss

As stated in the President's column, this will be the last year that I will be editor of the OLAC Newsletter, and it will also be the last year that the Newsletter appears in print. Web publishing will be less expensive and more flexible than print has been.

Our challenge, then, is to find a new Newsletter Editor. We need someone with some editing experience and Web authoring experience. We need someone who understands the tradition of the Newsletter and its usual offerings while having the vision to look beyond that to new horizons of content and design. Could you be that person? If so, send me a letter of application, a writing sample, and if possible, a link to something you've designed on the Web. My email address is: akweiss@fsu.edu

Erratum: In the December 2008 issue, we misspelled the name of the reporter of "Basic Sound Recordings. The report was written by Nathan B. Putnam. We apologize for this error.

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Treasurer's Report
2 nd Quarter FY09
October 1-December 31, 2008
Kate James, Treasurer

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