Bibliographic Services Annual Conference 2007

Subject Access: Out of Control?
Annual Bibliographic Services Conference 2007
November 16, 2007
College of the Holy Cross, Hogan Center, Worcester, MA

Agenda
8:30am - 9:30am	Registration/Refreshments
9:30am - 9:35am	Welcome – Margaret Lourie, NELINET, Inc.
9:35am - 10:30am	Wither Subject Access? Karen Markey, Professor, University of Michigan, School of Information
9:35am - 10:30am	Karen Markey is a professor in the School of Information. Prior to joining Michigan's faculty in 1987, she was a senior research scientist at the OCLC Online Computer Library Center. Markey has received research funding from the Council on Library Resources, Department of Education, Forest Press, Institute for Museum and Library Studies (IMLS), National Science Foundation (NSF), and OCLC. She is the author of four books, more than a dozen major research reports, several dozen journal articles and conference proceedings papers, and has been invited to speak at meetings in North America, Europe, and Australia. Markey has devoted her research and teaching to improving online information systems so that they are more responsive to the people who search them.
10:30am - 10:45am	Break
10:45am - 11:45am	Should we control vocabulary?(PPS) Should we control vocabulary?(PDF) John Mitchell, Senior Program Specialist and SACO Coordinator in the Cooperative Cataloging Team, Library of Congress
10:45am - 11:45am	John N. Mitchell is a Senior Program Specialist at the Library of Congress where he serves as the SACO Coordinator in the Cooperative Cataloging Team, the Secretariat of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging. His career at the Library of Congress includes bibliographer for ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies), cataloging editor for the National Union Catalog, and subject cataloger for the biology and medical teams. During 1991 Mitchell served as Head of Cataloging while employed at the National Institutes of Health Library. He holds a B.S. degree in biology from Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and has done graduate work in the biological sciences and German at Brigham Young University from which he received secondary teacher certification. He has pursued graduate studies at Philipps-Universität, Marburg/Lahn, Germany, and received his M.S.L.S. from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He is fluent in German and Russian, and has linguistic skills in French, Italian, and the Scandinavian languages. He is an active participant in the American Library Association and has held numerous positions in several ALA Divisions, including ALCTS and ACRL, and is currently a voting member of SAC (Subject Analysis Committee) of the Cataloging & Classification Section (CCS) of ALCTS . Mr. Mitchell is also a veteran of the Armed Forces, having served with the U.S. Navy.
11:45am - 12:30pm	Diane Vizine-Goetz, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC
11:45am - 12:30pm	Diane Vizine-Goetz is lead researcher on the Terminology Services research project and is a member of the OCLC team conducting research involving the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model. She joined OCLC in 1983 and has conducted research on the development of classifier-assistance tools and the application and use of the Library of Congress Subject Headings in online systems.
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Buffet Lunch
1:30pm - 2:30pm	"Linguistic Text Mining & Automatic Metadata Generation" Yves Schabes, Co-founder, Principal, President, Teragram Corporation
1:30pm - 2:30pm	Dr. Yves Schabes co-founded Teragram Corporation with Dr. Emmanuel Roche in 1997. Dr. Schabes has spent the past fifteen years working on issues relating to natural language processing and computer science. Dr. Schabes is the author, or editor, of more than fifty international scientific publications, including co-editor, with Emmanuel Roche, of Finite-State Language Processing (1997, MIT Press, Cambridge MA). Dr. Schabes also is an Associate to the Division of Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge MA. Prior to founding Teragram, Dr. Schabes was a Senior Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, MA. He also held a position as a Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Schabes has been a program committee member of many international scientific conferences and journals. Dr. Schabes received a Ph.D in 1990 in Computer Science from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from l'Ecole Supérieure D'Electricité (France) in 1985.
2:30pm - 2:45pm	Break
2:45pm - 3:30pm	In other words… : Using multiple taxonomies Jane Ouderkirk, Managing Director of Knowledge & Information Assets (KIA, Harvard Business School’s Knowledge and Library Services.
2:45pm - 3:30pm	Jane Ouderkirk is the Managing Director of Knowledge & Information Assets (KIA) for Harvard Business School’s Knowledge and Library Services. KIA is responsible for taxonomy and metadata management, content management, and information lifecycle management.
3:30pm	Drinks for the Road

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