Tuesday, May 24, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.
in rooms 325-326 of the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street in Madison.
Peer Council is an assembly of technical services librarians in Wisconsin.
The WiLS Peer Council meetings are an opportunity to learn new things, share information with peers, and interact with a diverse group with shared common interests.
This year's meeting features speaker, Eric Childress, from OCLC Research. Eric speaks on subjects related to library research, Library 2.0, the future of cataloging and other metadata-related subjects. |  |
Schedule
8:30 |
Participant sign-in with pastries and beverages |
9:00 |
Housekeeping and Welcome |
9:15 |
OCLC Research: Common Issues, Shared Explorations |
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11:00 |
Cataloging Conversation |
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Afternoon Programs & Concurrent Workshop |
1:00-3:15 |
Sessions at the Pyle Center |
1:00 |
Wisconsin Words: From Lawyers and Sheepshead to Trippe, Bakery, and Ramps |
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2:15 |
The Harry Potter Impact on Reading |
1:00-5:00 |
Hands-On Workshop at Memorial Library |
Profiles:
Eric Childress is a Consulting Project Manager in OCLC Research. He provides project management support for OCLC Research initiatives and participates as a contributing team member on selected research projects.
A specialist in metadata standards and systems, he has been active professionally in the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), serving as chair, member, or liaison with various committees and working groups. Eric has authored or co-authored articles and columns for a variety of professional journals including Library Resources & Technical Services, VRA Bulletin, Journal of Internet Cataloging, Code4Lib Journal, and the Proceedings Of The International Conference On Dublin Core And Metadata Applications. His wide-ranging expertise on metadata-related topics is often tapped for invited presentations at international professional conferences and workshops.
Prior to OCLC Childress worked in the cataloging departments of the libraries at Elon University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). He holds a B.A. (Geography) and M.L.S. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Mark K. Ehlert is a Coordinator with the Bibliographic and Technical Services unit of Minitex. He has been a cataloger for over 15 years, plying his trade at Alcuin Library (St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota) and the University of Minnesota's Wilson Library. More recently he has been a participant in the Minitex Contract Cataloging Program, formerly as a cataloger, now as a manager. Mark received his master's degree in Library and Information Science in 2007 from Dominican University through the MLIS program at St. Catherine University (St. Paul, Minnesota).
Julia Plier received a BA in French from Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin. She spent seven years working at Scott Foresman editing the Thorndike Barnhart series of student dictionaries. After leaving fulltime employment, she has continued working freelance on a variety of standard, ESL, and subject-related dictionaries for such publishers as A&C Black, Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Grosset & Dunlap, Macmillan, and Oxford University Press. She is also the pronunciation editor for glossaries in the Wisconsin Historical Society's books for young readers. Julie is a board member of Dictionary Society of North America, and a member of the Wisconsin Englishes Project, headquartered at the UW-Madison.
Luanne von Schneidemesser is Senior Editor, Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) at the UW-Madison. She received her BA from Kansas State University, her PhD in German from UW-Madison, writing on the colloquial language (Umgangssprache) of Giessen, Germany. She also studied in Germany and Switzerland. She carried out fieldwork for the Wortatlas der deutschen Umgangssprachen in Germany. She has taught English and German, and has been invited to give lectures in Germany, Switzerland, and Norway. Her publication topics include DARE, American regional English, settlement history, pop and soda, terms used in children's games, Kansas vocabulary, German influences on American English, use of digital resources, and outreach. She is currently President of the American Dialect Society. She was Executive Secretary of the Dictionary Society of North America 1998-2007. In 2009 she was elected a fellow of the DSNA. At UW-Madison, she is part of the Wisconsin Englishes project.
Kathleen Horning is the director of the Cooperative Children's Book Center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) is a unique examination, study and research library of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The CCBC's noncirculating collections include current, retrospective and historical books published for children and young adults. The CCBC supports teaching, learning and research related to children's and young adult literature and provides informational and educational services based on its collections to students and faculty on the UW-Madison campus and librarians, teachers, child care providers, researchers and other adults through the state of Wisconsin (see bio).