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2CUL-related activities at the ALA Annual meeting in Chicago last month included a presentation by Bob Wolven at the ALCTS Heads of Cataloging Interest Group. In his talk, Bob gave an administrator's view of the challenges we face in assessing cataloging from a cross-institutional perspective – specifically, in the context of 2CUL. He stressed how the decisions we make regarding cataloging and other technical services operations will often reflect how we weigh common, but competing, underlying values. Bob's presentation is available on the TSI wiki from the 2CUL Articles & Presentations page https://confluence.cornell.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=192447651 – -- see the most recent entry in the chronologically arranged list. In a different kind of meeting, several of the TSI steering committee and working group members who attended ALA got together for a "2CUL TSI Happy Hour" in Chicago's historic Palmer House lobby bar. Former Director of LTS Cataloging & Metadata Services at Cornell, Glen Wiley, joined us to catch up on 2CUL news (and gossip). Glen now holds a similar position (without the 2CUL component) at the University of Miami Libraries.
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