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

News and Announcements
Barbara Vaughan, Column Editor

Nancy B. Olson Award Announcement
It is with pleasure that we, the OLAC Awards Committee, announce that we have selected Paige Andrew to receive the 2009 Nancy B. Olson Award. The Committee received many worthy nominations this year, and we wished that we could have given each of them an award. However, when we combined Paige’s considerable achievements in furthering the goals of standardization of map cataloging, including MARC coding and tagging and promoting the understanding of map cataloging and data exchange by professionals unfamiliar with these materials and process, the choice was evident.

The award will be presented to Paige at the OLAC membership meeting in July during the ALA Annual Conference:
For making substantial contributions to audiovisual and map cataloging For his various publications on map cataloging For presenting quality cataloging workshops at OLAC Conferences and other local, state, regional, and national conferences For his work in and for OLAC and various national and regional organizations and committees For his willingness to share his knowledge with other librarians

Congratulations Paige!

Submitted by: The 2009 Nancy B. Olson Awards Committee
Vicki Toy-Smith, Committee Chair

Announcement of OLAC New Officers
2009-2011

Vice President/President Elect:
Sevim McCutcheon
Monographic Cataloger, Assistant Professor
Kent State University

Sevim (rhymes with ‘swim’) McCutcheon has worked as an original cataloger or head of Technical Services in public, state, and academic libraries, as well as in the contract cataloging environment.  She began her professional career with five years of cataloging at OCLC TechPro, combined with moonlighting as a reference assistant in the AV department of Upper Arlington Public Library.  After two years as the head of Technical Services at Tuscarawas County Public Library, she joined a branch of the State Library of Ohio which serves a public library consortium, the SEO (Serving Every Ohioan) Library Center.  There she was responsible for original cataloging in all formats and training copy catalogers in the consortium’s nearly seventy member libraries throughout the state.  Since 2006, Sevim has worked for Kent State University, Ohio, as a monographs cataloger and assistant professor. Despite her official title as monographs cataloger, she has had the opportunity to keep her AV and non-book cataloging skills in practice while positions of Music and Media cataloger and Serials cataloger were vacant.  She promotes the OLAC organization to the university’s Library and Information Science cataloging classes.  Active in a number of Ohio library organizations, her most recent professional activity was chairing the OLAC-MOUG 2008 Conference in Cleveland, Ohio.  Her favorite material to catalog is sound recordings of classical Turkish music.
 
Treasurer/Membership Coordinator:
Nathan B. Putnam
Special Formats Catalog Librarian
George Mason University

Background Information

Since January 2007, Nathan has been the Special Formats Catalog Librarian at George Mason University where he catalogs video recordings, audio CD's, computer software, electronic databases and books, electronic theses, maps, and microforms.  He has participated on library committees and was the Secretary for the Librarians' Council at GMU.  Before working at GMU (and while working towards an MLIS), he worked at Michigan State University where for over 4 years his job duties ranged from database maintenance to interlibrary loan to copy cataloging PDFs and print items with supplementary materials. In addition to cataloging, he is a lifelong student with a diverse background in music, library science, and computers.  Nathan has also taught music and library science graduate students music research and bibliography.

Statement of Interest

As a relatively new professional, I have looked to OLAC to gain a better understanding of A/V cataloging and would like to offer some of my time to help the organization.  At my current position, I have been a member of several committees and have had to write reports of current processes and outcomes of the committee's work.  I enjoy interacting with other people and expect to get to know many more of OLAC's members through the membership coordinator component.  I also enjoy financial record keeping (I think this ties into the detailed-oriented mindset of catalogers and musicians).

Submitted by:
Steven Miller
Chair, OLAC Elections Committee

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