The Library is presenting a series of tours, workshops and other events during the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Most of these events require prior registration (as indicated below) but are free of charge to ALA Conference participants. Public transportation is available from the Washington, DC Convention Center to the Library of Congress.
Note: Special open houses will take place in several of the Library's reading rooms and offices on Friday, June 22 in the afternoon. No registration is required for these events.
THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2007
Preservation Workshop: Research Design and the Scientific Method
Preservation Research and Testing Division of the Preservation Directorate
Madison Building, LM G21 [view
map]
Session 1: 9:00 am - 12:00 noon
Session 2: 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Limited to 20 people per session
Each 3-hour session will cover description and examples of how the steps of the scientific method are applied to solving problems in preservation. Included will be a description of the state of the art analytical instrumentation. Attendees will learn how to propose collaborative preservation research and testing projects with the Library of Congress such as tools needed to address pressing preservation needs of libraries nation-wide. Enter the C street entrance and enter LM G21, first door to your left upon passing through the foyer. Please allow time for security check.
This event has reached capacity, we are no longer accepting reservations.
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2007
Preservation Directorate Tour
Madison Building, LM G21 [view
map]
Session 1: 9:00 - 11:00 am (includes GPO Printing Office a number of
blocks away)
Session 2: 10:00 -11:00 am
Each session limited to 20 people
Join the Preservation Directorate staff for an hour-long tour of the Binding and Collections Care, box making, Conservation, Reformatting, and Research and Testing areas in the Madison Building of the Library of Congress. From the C street entrance of the James Madison Building, enter LM G21, the first door to your left upon passing through the foyer. Please allow time for security check.
This event has reached capacity, we are no longer accepting reservations.
Creating and Updating Chinese Geographic Names
The Library of Congress Cooperative Cataloging Team
Madison Building, LM139 [view
map]
9:30 am - 12:00 noon
Limited to 50 people
Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) specialist Bob Hiatt will give a presentation on the guidelines of creating and updating Chinese geographic names. During the program, there will also be a practicum session by Cooperative Cataloging specialist Jiping Wu and other Chinese language cataloging specialists on real work-site examples. Guidelines on Chinese geographic names have changed over time, especially after the pinyin conversion in 2000. The purpose of this session is to further clarify the guidelines in order to make it easier for librarians working with these materials and for users locating the material.
No Advance Reservation Needed
LC Metasearch
Madison Building, National Digital Library Learning Center, 1st Floor Atrium [view map]
9:30 - 10:30 am
The Library has recently introduced a metasearch that discovers materials in the largest sections of www.loc.gov from one search box, eliminating the need for multiple searches.
In Living Color: Collections from the Library of Congress
Lavonda Broadnax and Sabrina Thomas (Digital Reference Team)
Jefferson Building, LJ 220 (African & Middle Eastern Division) [view map]
10:00 - 11:30 am
Materials from the diverse collections of the Library of Congress chronicle events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape the world and serve as resources for education, scholarly pursuits, and lifelong learning. Specialists from the Library of Congress will present the unique and extensive collections that celebrate the identities of people of color. You will learn the size, variety, and value of these multi-format collections. You will also learn to uncover and navigate a range of digital and analog resources and be encouraged to use little-known materials.
Using Site Maps to Improve Web Site Search
Madison Building, National Digital Library Learning Center, 1st Floor Atrium [view map]
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
This program will discuss how using XML/HTML based site maps can assist with exposing dynamic database driven content to search engines. The focus will include a discussion on the recently adopted open standard and its impact on helping users find relevant content.
Be the Book: Acquisitions to Access
Madison Building Foyer, 1st Floor [view
map]
Session 1: Tour begins at 1:00pm
Session 2: Tour begins at 4:00pm
All ALA participants are invited to our special “Be the Book: Acquisitions to Access” tours at 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm on Friday, June 22. The Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate, with the Collections Access, Loan, and Management Division, will escort you along the path of an item as it’s received for the collections, cataloged, and sent to the stacks for service to our users. This involves lots of walking, starting in the technical processing work areas of the James Madison Memorial Building and finishing in the collections control room and stacks of the Thomas Jefferson Building.
Please meet in the Madison Foyer at 1:00 or 4:00 to start the tour. You’ll finish in the Jefferson Building in time for the reading room open houses at 2:00 (special reading rooms) or 5:00 (the Main Reading Room). No registration is required, but please email Susan Morris at smor@loc.gov if you need special ADA accommodations.
No Advance
Reservation Needed
Searching the Public Records of the U.S. Copyright Office
Madison Building, LM 516-A
1:00 - 2:30 pm (2:00 - 2:30 pm tour)
Get an in-depth introduction to the public records of the U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress, that date back to 1870. As the one office where original claims to copyright are registered, the public records of the Copyright Office are a unique snapshot of American creativity for over 135 years. Searches of the copyright records are ways to establish ownership of particular works and are helpful in determining whether or not certain works currently enjoy copyright protection.
This session will include a demo of the new copyright search searching system in Voyager as well as a tour of the Copyright Office Public Record Reading Room in the Madison Building of the Library of Congress.
Shakespeare Tour
Tour will begin at the “Shakespeare in America” display in the American Treasures exhibition in the Thomas Jefferson Building. [view map]
1:00 pm
Tour is limited to 30 participants
A Shakespeare-themed walking tour of the historic Thomas Jefferson Building will be led by John Y. Cole, director of the Library's Center for the Book, and Martha Hopkins, curator of the Shakespeare display, Interpretive Programs Office. Beginning with an overview of the Library’s Shakespeare display, the tour highlights Shakespearean images and words in the Jefferson Building's corridors and ceilings and in the Main Reading Room. As pointed out in Cole's book On These Walls (Library of Congress, 1995), Shakespeare is the best represented writer in the building's iconography.
SACO: A New Online Course
Madison Building, LM139 [view map]
1:00 - 3:00 pm
Limited to 50 people
A demonstration of a new online course on SACO participation developed as part of a joint PCC/ALCTS training initiative by John Mitchell (Library of Congress Cooperative Cataloging Team).
No Advance Reservation Needed
Program for Cooperative Cataloging: SCCTP Workshop / CONSER Standard Record,
Melissa Beck (Serials Cataloging, UCLA Cataloging & Metadata Center)
Madison Building, LM 654 [view map]
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Limited to 30 participants
The workshop focuses on data elements required in the CONSER standard record. All materials are based on the CONSER standard record documentation and LCRIs developed to cover new practices in dealing with description of serials title, uniform title, designation, etc. The workshop will also cover CONSER’s new practices in coding MARC field 246 for variant titles, fixed fields, etc. The workshop consists of slide presentations with exercises on paper. Trainees will not be using a computer as part of the workshop.
This workshop is intended for catalogers who have been active serials catalogers for more than one year and are familiar with AACR2R, MARC serials tagging, and fundamental approaches to serials cataloging. This course is designed as a supplement to other SCCTP Workshops and for those people wanting to catalog serials following the new CONSER standard.
Sessions include:
- Background and philosophy of the CONSER standard record
- What’s the same and what’s new
- How to catalog under new guidelines
- Working with copy
- Hands on exercises
This event has reached capacity, we are no longer accepting reservations.
Integrating Primary Sources in the K-12 Classroom
Madison Building, National Digital Library Learning Center, 1st Floor
Atrium [view
map]
1:30 - 2:30 pm
The Library’s Educational Outreach Team will discuss how to incorporate online primary-source materials into the classroom.
Guided Tours of the Historic Thomas Jefferson Building
Visitors Center, Jefferson Building, Ground Floor [view map]
Tour 1: 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Tour 2: 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Each tour is limited to 30 people
ALA participants may reserve a tour of the historic Thomas Jefferson Memorial Building. The Library’s professionally trained docents discuss the history of the Library as well as the art and architecture of this magnificient building that opened in 1897. These walking lecture tours last about an hour and begin in the Ground Floor Visitors Center of the Jefferson Building (enter on First St, SE). Please arrive at least 15 minutes before a tour begins in order to clear entrance security.
Request a Reservation for Tour 1: 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Request a Reservation for Tour 2: 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Copyright Office Update
Madison Building, LM 403
2:30 - 4:00 pm
This session will feature the Register of Copyrights, Marybeth Peters and her legal staff. The speakers will discuss and answer questions related to legislation, litigation, regulatory activities and other related issues.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2007
World Digital Library
Madison Building, National Digital Library Learning Center, 1st Floor Atrium [view map]
Session 1: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Session 2: 2:00 - 3:00 pm
The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world.
Request
a Reservation for Session 1: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Request
a Reservation for Session 2: 2:00 - 3:00 pm
MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2007
Searching the Public Records of the U.S. Copyright Office
Madison Building, LM 516-A
9:30 - 11:00 am (10:30 - 11:00 am tour)
Get an in-depth introduction to the public records of the U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress, that date back to 1870.
As the one office where original claims to copyright are registered, the public records of the Copyright Office are a unique snapshot of American creativity for over 135 years. Searches of the copyright records are ways to establish ownership of particular works and are helpful in determining whether or not certain works currently enjoy copyright protection.
This session will include a demo of the new copyright search searching system in Voyager as well as a tour of the Copyright Office Public Record Reading Room in the Madison Building of the Library of Congress.
Legal Reference Research for Generalists in the Digital Age
Madison Building, LM 516-B
Session 1: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Session 2: 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Most Librarians need to know how to navigate the immense richness of legal resources which exist when encountering questions involving the law. The Law Library of Congress, the world’s largest law library, enables global research with select online publications such as the Guide to Law Online, the Global Legal Monitor, Thomas, and the Global Legal Information Network for foreign and comparative legal resources. These and other sources will be discussed. With the focus on the real world environment, you will know which resources to utilize if you are asked questions about: laws passed by Congress; presidential proclamations and executive orders; federal court decisions, and basic information that can be found in legal encyclopedias and dictionaries. Participants will have an opportunity to listen, discuss and engage in a timely session that benefits all library patrons.
Request
a Reservation for Session 1: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Request
a Reservation for Session 2: 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Archiving the Web
Presenters: Abbie Grotke and Gina Jones, Web Capture Team
Madison Building, Mumford Room (Sixth Floor) [view map]
10:00 - 11:00 am
The Library’s Web Capture Team will discuss how they are capturing, preserving and making available Web sites along such themes as elections, Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq and Supreme Court nominations.
No Advance Reservation Needed
Guided Tours of the Historic Thomas Jefferson Building
Visitors Center, Jefferson Building, Ground Floor [view map]
Tour 1: 11:00 am - 12:00 noon
Tour 2: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Each tour is limited to 60 people
ALA participants may reserve a tour of the historic Thomas Jefferson Memorial Building. The Library’s professionally trained docents discuss the history of the Library as well as the art and architecture of this magnificient building that opened in 1897. These walking lecture tours last about an hour and begin in the Ground Floor Visitors Center of the Jefferson Building (enter on First St, SE). Please arrive at least 15 minutes before a tour begins in order to clear entrance security.
Request a Reservation for Tour 1: 11:00 am - 12:00 noon
Request a Reservation for Tour 2: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Basic Copyright Registration (Including a Demonstration of the U.S. Copyright Office's New Online Registration Option)
Madison Building, LM 516-A
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
This session will provide an overview on how to register a claim to copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. It will include a live demo of the new online registration system slated to debut on July 1st, 2007.
Since 1870, the Copyright Office is the one agency in the nation where claims to copyright in original material (such as literary works, films, music, photographs, artworks, etc.) are registered, to establish a public record about these works and as a prerequisite for enforcing rights in court. The Copyright Office has designed a new online system for registering works of original authorship that will allow patrons to conveniently file claims from their own homes or local public libraries.
This session will be an introduction to the new filing options with samples of how to submit material for copyright registration. Tips on how to complete an application form with answers to frequently asked questions will be provided.
Section 108 Study Group Panel Discussion
Madison Building, Mumford Room (Sixth Floor)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
The Section 108 Study Group is an independent committee charged with examining how the exceptions and limitations to the exclusive rights under copyright law that are applicable specifically to libraries and archives – namely those set out in section 108 of the Copyright Act – may need to be amended to take account of the widespread use of digital technologies. In this panel discussion members of the Study Group will address the major issues presented by the application of section 108 in the digital environment, as well as some of the possible revisions to the law and their implications for library and right-holder practice.
Copyright Section 108 Working Group Panel Members
- Richard S. Rudick, Former General Counsel, John Wiley & Sons
- Laura N. Gasaway, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, University of North Carolina
- Lois F. Wasoff, Attorney at Law; former Vice President and Corporate Counsel, Houghton Mifflin Company
- John Schline, Senior Vice President of Corporate Business Affairs, Penguin Group (USA)
- Robert Oakley, Professor of Law and Director, Law Library, Georgetown University Law Center
- James G. Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University
No Advance Reservation Needed
Preservation Directorate Tour
Madison Building, LM G21 [view map]
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Limited to 20 people
Join the Preservation Directorate staff for an hour-long tour of the Binding and Collections Care, box making, Conservation, Reformatting, and Research and Testing areas in the Madison Building of the Library of Congress. From the C street entrance of the James Madison Building, enter LM G21, the first door to your left upon passing through the foyer. Please allow time for security check.
This event has reached capacity, we are no longer accepting reservations.
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) Symposium/Presentation
Madison Building, Mumford Room (Sixth Floor) [view map]
1:30 - 4:30 pm
Learn how the Library of Congress and its partners are collecting and preserving important digital content that is at risk of loss if not preserved now. Presenters to include NDIIPP partners discussing the types of content they are saving and the obstacles they have overcome in this relatively undefined area of librarianship. Content collection includes public television, geospatial data, social science datasets, Southern history and culture, political Web sites and business records relating to the birth of the dot-com era.
Tracy Seneca, California Digital Library
"The Web Archiving Service: Demonstration of Collection Building
and Capture Analysis Features"
Martin Halbert, Emory University
"Southern Cultural History and Heritage"
Steve Morris, North Carolina State University
"State and Local Government Geospatial Data at Risk"
Micah Altman, Harvard University
"Preserving Classic Social Science Research Data"
Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Stanford University
"Digital Collection Decisions: a National Geospatial Digital Archive Perspective"
David Kirsch, University of Maryland
"The Business of America and the Birth of the Dot Com Era: Preserving
the Digital Sock Puppet"
No Advance Reservation Needed
A Conversation with the Librarian of Congress
Coolidge Auditorium [view map]
4:00 pm
On Monday, June 25, ALA conferees are invited to witness a conversation between Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb in the Coolidge Auditorium in the Jefferson Building. They will discuss matters of importance to all libraries and librarians.
No Advance Reservation Needed
TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2007
Tour of the Library's Ft. Meade High Density Book Storage Facility
Transportation provided, buses leave from the Washington Convention Center
Tour 1: 8:30 am - 12:00 noon
Tour 2: 1:00 - 4:30 pm
In November 2002, the Library of Congress opened the first of a series of high density book storage modules at Ft. Meade, Maryland approximately 29 miles north of downtown Washington, D.C. Module 1 is now full, and occupancy of Module 2 has begun. Modeled after the Harvard University high density storage facility, the Library’s off-site storage facilities feature a state of the art environment for paper-based collections, and a storage configuration that maximizes capacity within the allotted space. The Library will conduct two tours of the Ft. Meade facility on Tuesday, June 26; one leaving the Convention Center at 8:30 am, returning by noon; the second, leaving the Convention Center at 1:00 pm, returning by 4:30 pm. Space is limited and advanced sign-up is required. There is no charge for this field trip. Transportation will be provided by the Library of Congress.
This event has reached capacity, we are no longer accepting reservations.
Guided Tours of the Historic Thomas Jefferson Building
Visitors Center, Jefferson Building, Ground Floor [view map]
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
This tour is limited to 30 people
ALA participants may reserve a tour of the historic Thomas Jefferson Memorial Building. The Library’s professionally trained docents discuss the history of the Library as well as the art and architecture of this magnificient building that opened in 1897. These walking lecture tours last about an hour and begin in the Ground Floor Visitors Center of the Jefferson Building (enter on First St, SE). Please arrive at least 15 minutes before a tour begins in order to clear entrance security.
Request a Reservation: 11:00 am - 12:00 noon