LITA/ALCTS-CCS Authority Control Interest Group

DATE:   June 27, 1999 (Sun.)
TIME:   2:00 - 4:30pm
PLACE:  Westin Canal Place, Ballroom

On behalf of the Authority Control in the Online Environment Interest
Group (ACIG), you are invited to attend our program titled "Who 'Owns'
Authority Control?", on Sun.  June 27, 1999 from 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM at
the Ballroom in the Westin Canal Place, New Orleans. 
  
Five speakers will fill the program, whose goal is to explore the 
impact of authority control for all library catalog users.  This program 
will investigate authority control related issues from various user
perspectives and needs.  Speakers will discuss issues related to the
incorporation of various types of bibliographic records into a local
system, as well as aspects relating to indexing, cross-database
searching of reference sources, authority control in a consortia
environment, and a look into the future. 

Speakers:

Martha O'Hara Conway, Catalog Management Librarian, Yale University Library

Barbara McFadden Allen, Director, CIC Center for Library Initiatives and
Assistant Director of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation

Bonnie MacEwan, Assistant Dean for Collections, Penn State University 

Sonya Oliver, OCLC, Senior Marketing Specialist, Reference and Resource
Sharing

Linda Barnhart, Head, Catalog Dept., University of California, San Diego