Past Workshops
MELA 2021
“Subject Analysis Workshop” (Video\ Q&A) by Margaret W. Hughes, Metadata Librarian for Africana, Social Sciences & Humanities; Head, Classification Unit; Team Lead, Metadata Creation Unit, Stanford Library.
“Cataloging manuscripts in the IFLA-LRM model” (Video\ PDF\ PPTX) by Dr. Jean N. Druel, OP, Researcher at the Dominican Institute, Cairo.
“Wikidata and Libraries, a Potential Platform to Explore” (Video\ PDF) by Iman Dagher, Arabic & Islamic Studies Metadata Librarian, UCLA Library.
“Unicode in OCLC: What can go wrong?” (Video\ PDF) by Pavel Angelos, Metadata Librarian, Arabic Specialty at Princeton University Library.
"Round Table: Cataloging Issues in OCLC" (Video\ PDF\ Form).
MELA 2020
"Kurdish materials: romanization and access" (Video) by Michael Chyet, The Library of Congress.
"Urdu resources : obstacles to discovery" (Video) by Younas, Muhammad, UCLA & Magda Gad, Stanford.
"Improving Access to Arabic Materials: Better Records, Enhanced Discovery" (Video\ PDF) by Iman Dagher, UCLA.
"Improving access to the Middle Eastern materials in OCLC by the means of automation" (Video\ PPT with notes) by Angelos, Pavel, Princeton University.
"Improving access: adding non-Latin script via automation" (Part 1, Part 2) by Nora Avetyan, UCLA, & Peter Fletcher, UCLA.
MELA 2019
"Navigate PCC as a Cataloger" by Jessalyn Zoom, The Library of Congress.
MELA 2018
"The PCC ISNI Pilot: experimenting with identity management" by Tatyana Chubaryan, Texas A&M University Libraries.
"OCLC’s Project Passage" by Joyce Bell, Princeton University.
MELA 2017
"The Road to Discovery is Paved with Standards: Metadata Standards & Applications for Digital Resources" by Claudia Horning, UCLA.
MELA 2016
"Linked Data and BIBFRAME" by Joyce Bell, Princeton University.
MELA 2015
"Workshop on Islamic Manuscripts" (Exercises\ Video) by Evyn Kropf, University of Michigan & Denise Soufi, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
MELA 2014
"Arabic Cataloging using RDA" (PDF\ PPT\ Examples) by Joyce Bell, Princeton University.
"Authorities with RDA: The Basics & Beyond" by Iman Dagher, UCLA.
MELA 2013
"Manuscripts Cataloguing Workshop" by Evyn Kropf, University of Michigan & Mark Muehlhausler, American University in Cairo.
MELA 2012
"Getting ready for RDA" by Iman Dagher, UCLA.
"RDA Discussion" (Examples\ Handout) by Joan Biella, Library of Congress.
"RDA Authorities" by Joyce Bell, Princeton University.