Thanks to Patricia Moloney (LAI CMG Secretary) and the rest of the Library Association of Ireland’s Cataloguing and Metadata Group Committee for the opportunity to rerun this training, and to all their hard work in advertising and making it another sell-our event.
Looking forward to meeting more new colleagues from Ireland and beyond tomorrow!
Last week I was interviewed by Shelina for her DeCluttrMe Podcast, which is one of the features of her hugely popular IGTV channel.
Shelina has been running a series on estate management, and so we talked mostly about creating inventories for insurance purposes and for wills. We also tackled the evergreen subjects of ‘What is cataloguing?’ and why it matters.
If you’re interested, you can watch the episode here: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CTB_x1IgT5b
Sarah Howley, Nicola Austin and I have a brief post on the APDO Blog summarising the books the APDO Book Club has been reading this year.
Many thanks to those of you who signed up for the waiting list for Getting Started in Rare Books Cataloguing in July. The Library Association Ireland Cataloguing and Metadata Group has decided to offer a repeat on 3 September.
Full details on the LAI CMG’s new blog: https://laicmg.wordpress.com/2021/07/05/431/
Thanks to everyone who attended today’s event, and especially to the Library Association Ireland’s Cataloguing and Metadata Group for their brilliant hosting, and for the invitation to deliver the workshop in the first place.
I really hope we have the chance to repeat this one, as we used some of my favourite examples, and I met some lovely colleagues.
Lovely to hear from The Library Association of Ireland’s Cataloguing and Metadata Group that our workshop on 2 July is fully booked.
There is a waiting list, though, and we may stage a repeat event if there is enough demand.
Really delighted to have been asked to deliver a one-day online workshop for The Library Association of Ireland’s Cataloguing and Metadata Group on Getting Started in Rare Books Cataloguing.
Course description:
At the end of this one-day bespoke workshop participants will leave having catalogued three rare books and with knowledge of where to seek further information.
This course has been certified by the LAI Continuing Professional Development Committee. Certificates of attendance will be issued to attendees.
This online workshop will take place over Zoom. Participants will have to be able to switch between Zoom and other applications, especially to read PDF documents; for this reason joining by tablet (such as iPad) is not recommended.
Please note that the majority of the places are reserved for current members of the Library Association of Ireland (LAI) at a discounted price. (Membership will be verified). In addition, a small number of places will be available to current LIS students/unwaged at a nominal price. See tickets for further details.
The three books we will catalogue represent three common periods held by many special collections:
Model answers will be provided in:
A month before the training, you will receive four PDFs:
You don’t have to read anything in advance, but for those who do like to read ahead, these will be useful resources.
It was lovely to see our course for Awen Libraries in Cilip’s magazine, Information Professional this month. Harriet Hopkins and her team at Bridgend received a grant from Cilip Cymru from its Kathleen Cooks Fund and commissioned a bespoke online course from Beginning Cataloguing this summer.
The National Acquisitions Group’s Quickstart Cataloguing for Local Studies is now fully booked.
Members will be able to watch the recording afterwards. And NAG membership for public libraries is currently free.
It’s only two weeks until NAG’s QuickStart Cataloguing session designed specifically for Local Studies library staff.
Full details and booking via the National Acquisitions Group’s programme events page.
