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(Fwd) MOUG to meet in Boston, Feb. 10-11
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil R. Hughes)
Fri Oct 10 20:17:48 1997
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 16:01:34 -0500
From: "Neil R. Hughes" <nhughes@libris.libs.uga.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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A version of this library meeting announcement has been cross-posted
to other lists; please forgive any duplication. My sincere thanks to
any list owner/monitor who receives this and posts it to the list for
which it was intended, and apologies to anyone who deems it
inappropriate.--NH
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Greetings:
The preliminary program and registration form for the 1998 Music OCLC
Users Group (MOUG) meeting in Boston are now up on the MOUG Web site.
You may access them at:
http://www.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/moug/index.htm
The meeting will be held Feb. 10 & 11 at the Boston Park Plaza, in
conjunction with the Music Library Association conference (Feb.
11-15) as per our usual custom, and it will be MOUG's 20th
Anniversary--our theme this year is "Celebrating Twenty Years of
Improving Access to Music, 1978-1998." It was in Beantown itself in
February of 1978 that MOUG first met, becoming OCLC's first and
oldest official users' group, and we would like to invite any and all
of you who work with music (scores, sound recordings, books on music,
interactive multimedia, videos, Web resources, authority files, etc.
etc.) using OCLC products and services in any capacity to attend
this special return to our roots.
A celebratory opening reception on Tuesday night (dessert is included
... need I say more?), with a welcome from our Chair-Elect Steve
Wright (Northern Illinois U.) will kick things off. At the meeting
itself, the plenary speakers will be noted movers & shakers Sheila
Intner and Martha Yee, who will help us take a hard look at where
we've been and where we're headed, and there will also be no fewer
than four breakout sessions on the program, of the nuts-&-bolts sort
on which MOUG has built its solid reputation. Dr. Yee's plenary
session may be of special interest to PACS-L subscribers who work
with music, as her session is entitled, "Musical Works on OCLC, or,
What if OCLC Were Actually to Become a Catalog?" She will critique
OCLC's current search & retrieval functions and examine how they
might be improved, especially in light of proposed changes to the
cataloging code.
The breakout sessions take into account librarians in public
services, technical services, and situations where one may deal only
occasionally with music. Of particular interest to PACS-L
subscribers may be the panel discussion moderated by Holly Borne
(Butler U.) comparing OCLC's FirstSearch WorldCat with the Music
Library Association's "Automation Requirements for Music
Information." (The panel will actually be comparing FirstSearch
WorldCat to a recent draft of the soon-to-be-published revision of
the original specifications by Lenore Coral _et al._ in MLA _Notes_
Sept. 1986, p. 14-19.) At the business meeting, a call will be
issued for participants in an oral history project to chronicle
MOUG's works & days with an eye to presenting said oral history at
our 25th anniversary.
Visit MOUG's Web site now, or wait and see our November newsletter
for more details. (Early meeting registration and hotel registration
deadlines are the same as MLA's.) I hope to see many of you at MOUG
in Boston.
Sincerely,
Neil Hughes
Continuing Education Coordinator, MOUG
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Neil R. Hughes
Music Cataloger
University of Georgia Libraries
Internet: nhughes@libris.libs.uga.edu
Telephone: (706) 542-1554
Fax: (706) 542-4144
