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The Illinois Digital Heritage Hub (IDHH) released the IDHH Metadata Best Practices in early 2017 to assist contributing institutions with providing quality metadata to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). This program will provide an introduction to how metadata is viewed and interacted with in the DPLA environment, and will guide metadata specialists and contributing institutions how to use these best practices to create and develop quality metadata that functions well in DPLA.

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The Bibliographic Framework Initiative, or BIBFRAME, is intended to provide a replacement to the MARC format as an encoding standard for library catalogs. Its aim is to move library data into a Linked Data format, allowing it to interact with other data on the Web. This session will cover the basics of BIBFRAME, describe what it can provide for users of library catalogs that MARC can't, and outline what librarians should be aware of regarding this change in the cataloging landscape.

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Currently, the Library of Congress is working on a project to move away from the MARC 21 format and toward another carrier for library data, one that makes use of Linked Data principles and mechanisms. You may be wondering, what is Linked Data? What could it mean for our library catalogs? How do we create Linked Data? This session with Emily Nimsakont will answer those questions and more.

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Do you want to do more with your MARC records? Are you looking for an easy way to add or delete fields, split a batch of records into several groups, or extract particular fields to create a report? In this session, Emily Nimsakont, Head of Cataloging and Resource Management, University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Schmid Law Library, demonstrated how to do all of these tasks and more with free MarcEdit software.

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Have you found yourself responsible for cataloging with no previous experience? Is "cataloger" only one of many hats you wear at your library? In this session, Emily Nimsakont, Head of Cataloging and Resource Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Schmid Law Library will demonstrate free tools to innovate your cataloging process, make your life easier, and get your library's materials cataloged and in the hands of your patrons.

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Lynn Fields, the Director of Technical Services at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, presented a workshop on Best Practices for RDA in MARC21. The workshop explored a brief history of RDA and why best practices are so important in RDA. The main focus of the day was looking at best practices recommendations with lots of examples and exercises.

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