NASIG

The annual conference for the North American Serials Interest Group is scheduled for Portland, Oregon, June 26-29. Some sessions of interest to catalogers include:

• Cataloging for the Non Cataloger
• Cataloging Survival for non Catalogers, or you thought you would never need to catalog again
• Serial Aggregations, Multiple Versions and the Virtual Union Catalog: the combined Digital Library, SUNY and ExLibris experiences
• Case Studies in Serials Cataloging, or: What am I Supposed to do With This?
• From Catalogers to Ontologists: Changing Roles and Opportunities for Technical Services Librarians
• Electronic Resource Management and the MARC Record: The Road Less Traveled
• Using the Library's OPAC to dynamically generate web pages for e-journals

Much more on acquisition, management, preservation and other aspects of serials.