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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">NOTSL will hold its Fall meeting on Friday, November 22, 2013. Our topic is “Linked Data and the Library.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dr. Marcia Zeng,
<span style="color:#333333">Professor of Library and Information Science at Kent State University, will be our morning speaker. “Dr. Zeng holds a Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences at University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. from Wuhan University in
China. Her major research interests include knowledge organization systems (taxonomy, thesaurus, ontology, etc), Linked Data, metadata and markup languages, database quality control, multilingual and multi-culture information processing, and digital libraries
for cultural objects.” Dr. Zeng will provide an overview of Linked Data principles.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In the afternoon session Jennifer Bowen, Assistant Dean, Information Management Services, University of Rochester and co-author of “RDA and the eXtensible Catalog” will address how linked
data can be applied in libraries and why it is important. Jennifer Bowen was a</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> principal investigator for the eXtensible Catalog Project at the University of Rochester and has written and
spoken extensively on this topic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The meeting will be held in Room 306 of the Kent Student Center on the Kent State University Main Campus in Kent, Ohio. Further details regarding pricing, lunch, etc. will be available
when registration opens. Please watch your inbox for the announcement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Kathleen F. Lamantia, MLIS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Technical Services Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Stark County District Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">715 Market Avenue North<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Canton, OH 44702<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">330-458-2723<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:klamantia@starklibrary.org"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">klamantia@starklibrary.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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