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MOUG 2025, Online

Virtual Meeting Dates: March 6, 2025, 12:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. EST and March 7, 2025, 12:00 p.m. – 4:25 p.m. EST

### Code of Conduct ###

Registration is now closed.

Registration Form

*Note: there is no “early-bird” registration rate.

  • For MOUG Members: $50
  • For non-members: $90
  • For students, 1st-time attendees, paraprofessionals, hourly, part-time, retirees, or financial adversity: $15

Program

The official MOUG 2025 Program is available.

The MOUG 2025 Program with abstracts is available.

The entire meeting will be held over Zoom. Meeting links will be emailed to attendees prior to the meeting.

*All times are EST.

Thursday, March 6, 2025
12:00 pm-12:10 pm (EST)Welcome! + Opening Remarks
Janice Bunker, MOUG Continuing Education Coordinator
12:10 pm-12:45 pm (EST)What’s a Cataloger Like You Doing at a Service Desk Like This? How My Music Cataloging Job Combined with Public Service Desk Duties and Student Supervision
Patty Falk, Bowling Green State University
12:45 pm-1:15 pm (EST)Ask Everything!
Morris Levy (OCLC)
Damian Iseminger (Library of Congress Music Division)
1:15 pm-1:25 pm (EST)Break
1:25 pm-2:15 pm (EST)The Music Companion for Cataloging and Metadata
Veronica Wells (Appalachian State University)
Andi Beckendorf (Luther College)
Angela Pratesi (Bowling Green State University)
Anna Grau Schmidt (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Tom Bickley (California State University-East Bay (retired))
Erin Conor (Harvard University)
2:15 pm-3:45 pm (EST)MOUG Business Meeting
Friday, March 7, 2025 (EST)
12:00 pm-1:20 pm (EST)Ontologies, BIBFRAME, and Beyond
Autumn Faulkner (Michigan State University)
1:20 pm-1:35 pm (EST)Break
1:35 pm-1:55 pm (EST)New Job, New ILS: Learning Cataloging Strategies and Priorities
Tarren Sexton (Interlochen Center for the Arts)
1:55 pm-2:15 pm (EST)New Guidance on Gender-Sensitive Cataloging from the PCC Task Group on Gender
Laikin Dantchenko (Indiana University)
Morris Levy (OCLC)
2:15 pm-2:45 pm (EST)Lightning Talks
2:45 pm-2:55 pm (EST)Break
2:55 pm-3:30 pm (EST)Changing Our Tune: Updating the Bibliographic Scope for a Historical Sheet Music Collection
Katelynn Telford (SUNY Fredonia)
Mandi Shepp (SUNY Fredonia)
3:30 pm-4:15 pm (EST)OCLC Discovery Services Update
Jill Jones (OCLC)
4:15 pm-4:30 pm (EST)Closing Remarks + Au Revoir!
Janice Bunker, MOUG Continuing Education Coordinator