Publication Date
10-21-2012
Document Type
Presentation
Start Date
21-10-2012 9:30 AM
End Date
21-10-2012 11:00 AM
Description
Closing Keynote speaker Lynne Howarth is the Associate Dean of Research and a professor at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include knowledge organization standards and systems, as well as the evaluation of libraries’ technical services. Howarth’s professional memberships include the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing, the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Classification and Indexing Section, and IFLA’s ISBD Review Group.
The theme of the conference this year was “post-modern cataloging.” Howarth chose this theme for her presentation to reflect the dramatic shift of the media landscape in the last 20 years. She contends that media creation and management have moved from an “expert/gatekeepers” model to a “new player” model. In the first model, media is created and managed by “old guard” entities such as newspapers, television networks, and publishers. In the second model, media creation and management is more diffuse, constructed and recycled by an “everyman creative class” via social media, retail, devices, etc. The key players in this model are Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and many millions of media users worldwide. Howarth led the attendees on an amusing tour of the 2012 conference that tied the sessions presented back to the conference theme.
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Recommended Citation
Howarth, L. C. (2021, October 18-21). Post-modern cataloging: It's all AV now! [Closing Keynote presentation]. 2012 OLAC Conference, Albuquerque, NM, United States. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/olac-conference/2012/presentations/18/
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Post-Modern Cataloging: It's All AV Now
Closing Keynote speaker Lynne Howarth is the Associate Dean of Research and a professor at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include knowledge organization standards and systems, as well as the evaluation of libraries’ technical services. Howarth’s professional memberships include the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing, the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Classification and Indexing Section, and IFLA’s ISBD Review Group.
The theme of the conference this year was “post-modern cataloging.” Howarth chose this theme for her presentation to reflect the dramatic shift of the media landscape in the last 20 years. She contends that media creation and management have moved from an “expert/gatekeepers” model to a “new player” model. In the first model, media is created and managed by “old guard” entities such as newspapers, television networks, and publishers. In the second model, media creation and management is more diffuse, constructed and recycled by an “everyman creative class” via social media, retail, devices, etc. The key players in this model are Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and many millions of media users worldwide. Howarth led the attendees on an amusing tour of the 2012 conference that tied the sessions presented back to the conference theme.