Speakers

"Cataloging: Where are we now? Where are we going?"

Broadcast date: Friday, February 19, 2010

Karen Coyle

Karen Coyle is a librarian and a consultant in the area of digital libraries. She worked for over 20 years at the University of California in the California Digital Library, has served on library and information standards committees, and has written frequently on technical topics ranging from metadata development, technology management, system design, and on policy areas such as copyright and privacy.

On the Coyle’s InFormation blog at http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/, Karen comments regularly on the digital age. She is described there as “librarian, techie, social commentator, once called ‘public intellectual’ by someone who couldn't think of a better title.” She has served on the LITA Top Technologies Expert Group, as LITA Monographs Acquisitions Editor, and on the MARBI (MARC Standards Advisory Committee). She wrote the Managing Technologies column for the Journal of Academic Librarianship (2005-2008) and contributed the recent Library Journal netConnect feature (April 15, 2009) “Making Connections,” in which she addressed the possibilities of linked bibliographic data.

Renee Register

Renee and her staff are responsible for partnering with publishers, vendors and other content providers in the creation and distribution of title metadata to libraries, the publisher supply chain and end users. Prior to joining OCLC in 2005, she spent ten years with Ingram Book Group, wholesaler and data provider to retailers and libraries, first as Manager of Cataloging Services and then as Director of Classification and Bibliographic Control for the organization’s MARC and non-MARC metadata. Renee holds a BA in English and an MLIS from the University of Kentucky. She was named Outstanding Alumna of the Year for 2009.