Are you a "jack-of-all-trades" librarian who wants to spend less time ordering books and more time on the reference desk?

Is your busy technical services department looking for ways to automate everyday processes such as editing batches of MARC records from vendors? Do you want to process new items faster to get them into your patrons' hands sooner? Do you simply find yourself wondering, "Is there an easier way to do this?" about any of your library’s technical services work?

Library staff members spend a lot of time making sure patrons can access their resources, both physical and electronic, and finding ways to improve these workflows is important.

Join us February 13th to explore ways to make everyone's life easier when it comes to ordering, processing, cataloging, and weeding our libraries' resources.

Smart Cataloging: Beginning the Move from Batch Processing to Automated Classification

As libraries seek out new ways to support discovery and reuse of collections and library data, the creation and curation of high-quality metadata is becoming even more vital. Attend the 10:00 a.m. keynote session with Terry Reese who advises that in order to be successful, "libraries in general will need to seek to leverage the wide array of open data sources to improve not only traditional workflows but to also begin leveraging more intelligent services or algorithms for the purposes of automated classification and no-touch cataloging services."

Registration Fees

 Amigos Member | FREE

Library School Student | $45

Non-Member | Individual - $149 | Group - $269

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