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DIY E-Resources: Break Out and Build Your Own
Get PDFThe options for libraries to create databases and access points far beyond the traditional ILS have expanded exponentially in the last few years. Library technical services departments can use their expertise to create their own e-resources that fit the needs of their constituent groups, whether in an academic environment, public library, or special library. Creating an eresource with simple, free platforms and tools is within the reach of any library without requiring advanced IT support. Learn how to create do-it-yourself e-resources using Wordpress and Omeka that can supplement the traditional catalog, house a variety of formats, and allow a flexible, user-centered approach to discovery and display of resources. Google Docs and Google Refine will be demonstrated as additional tools to streamline the creation and management of metadata
"I'm Prepared for IP Rights Governance": Creative Commons Licensing, Media Assets Management, and the Role of Technical Services as IP Rights Administrator
Get PDFIntellectual Property Rights Governance (IPRG) is fast becoming an important part of both
education and enterprise-based activities (i.e. multimedia-based student portfolios, library
learning commons, media assets development/production/management). Creative Commons
(CC) is a nonprofit corporation which provides free licenses and legal tools to allow a creator of
a media asset to “mark [the media asset] with the freedom the [media asset] creator wants it to
carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.” (Creative
Commons - About, 2010). This session will discuss IPRG and Creative Commons licensing as it is
currently being used (or has the potential to be used) to manage media assets primarily in K-20
educational settings which serve students ages 6 and above – with an emphasis on how K-12
school and higher education-based libraries serving students of these ages have the unique
opportunity to serve as the school’s IPRG/CC policy and information center
Automated Metadata Generation and the Critical Role of Catalogers and Indexers in Technical Services of the Future
Get PDFAcademic and research libraries have an important role in collecting, organizing, and facilitating
access to the world’s scholarly information. Technical services librarians build the foundation
upon which scholarly information is managed. In the past 50 years, we have seen an increase in
production of scholarly information, more complex production models and workflows,
increasingly complex formats, and greater expectations from users for granularity of access.
Scholars and library users can now organize their own information in a way that makes sense to
them – we have a proliferation of organizing structures and indexing methods. The good news
is that this places technical services librarians in a pivotal role in the knowledge economy. The
challenge is that we have to rethink how we practice our craft. Future technical services
librarians will become knowledge engineers, designing knowledge architecture solutions and
new and dynamic ways of organizing information. This presentation will describe automated
classification, indexing and summarization tools available on today’s market, and how technical
services librarians will leverage these technologies in these new roles
Validating Online Serial Holdings with Help from a Worldcat API
Get PDFMaintaining knowledgebase holdings for individual journal subscriptions can be difficult,
especially when publishers do not appropriately present title relationships, but a script-assisted
workflow can validate holdings data and address title change problems, allowing for automated
updating or checking of journal holdings. By making calls to the Worldcat xISSN API, a script can
validate title relationships in journals holdings data downloaded from publishers. This
validation, in turn, allows an automatic comparison of publisher holdings data and
knowledgebase holdings data to identify problems or to make automatic updates, as
appropriate. This presentation will explore the successes and challenges in applying both
publisher holdings data validation and the subsequent knowledgebase holdings comparison
Incorporating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Projects in Technical Services: an Examination of Possibilities and Potential Pitfalls
Get PDFThis presentation will showcase work being done at an academic library to encode a collection
of manuscripts on Cleveland and the Western Reserve in XML format following TEI guidelines,
and address the objectives of and rationale for this endeavor. "The Manuscripts Relating to the
Early History of the Western Reserve, 1795-1869" collection consists of over 200 manuscripts,
and includes correspondences, journals, business records, government documents, and land
surveys. This collection, housed at the Western Reserve Historical Society, is being transcribed
and encoded by technical services staff. Such work is sometimes labor-intensive and timeconsuming.
The project also raises a number of issues, including: Why perform text encoding at
all? Should such work be left to scholars in the Digital Humanities instead? How can librarians
and digital humanists collaborate? And how practical is it for technical services units to
undertake such work? We will address these issues
To Establish or Not to Establish? The Question of Establishing Name Authority Records for Theses and Dissertation Authors
No full textRecent vigorous discussion on the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) listserv raised a
number of questions on the ethics of establishing theses and dissertation authors using birth
dates and other information found on author's work (such as the vita or other personal data).
This presentation will use that question as a starting point to investigate the reasoning behind
establishing these authors, how they should be established, why theses and dissertation
authors should be treated any differently than other authors, and how OCLC's increased
addition of articles into their database complicate matters. In addition, the further challenge
that RDA adoption might cause will be presented and discussed. Questions and discussion are
welcome, and participants do not need to be NACO participants to join and contribute to the
dialogue
Adding “Free E-Books”: Providing User Access to Public Domain Hathi Trust Resources in the KentLINK and OhioLINK Catalogs
No full textAt the request of the OhioLINK Database Management and Standards (DMS) committee, Kent
State University Libraries began investigating the possibility and feasibility of loading
bibliographic records for public domain digital materials held by the Hathi Trust into KentLINK
and the OhioLINK central catalogs. This investigation led to the Hathi Trust project where, in
2010, Kent State successfully obtained and loaded over 470,000 bibliographic records for Hathi
Trust digital resources into both catalogs. The records were available at no cost, but an
investment was made in both time and resources to improve the quality of the records. This
made the Hathi Trust resources more discoverable for our patrons. This presentation will cover,
in detail, the issues and problems that needed to be addressed and resolved for this project.
Libraries working with or managing large files of bibliographic records for e-resources may
benefit from Kent State’s experience
Is There Value in Value Added Cataloging?
Get PDFAs with most libraries, the Grasselli Library holdings include many items with zero or very few
circulations. In particular, we were facing decisions about whether to withdraw numerous
items contained in monographic series. In contemplating ways to increase the visibility of these
items, we decided to test two methods of enhancing the catalog records of these items with a
goal of increasing circulation. The first method was to re-catalog monographic series previously
cataloged under the series title, in which individual volumes had unique titles. We added
access points for the unique titles, retaining a link to the bibliographic record for the series title
as well. As a pilot for this method, we chose to limit the process to the Q’s, as there were a
large number of instances of this situation in that area. The second method was to enhance the
records by adding table of contents fields. For this method, we chose the P’s as a pilot area,
due to the large numbers of items containing individual works for which our patrons might be
searching (i.e. plays, stories, etc.). We plan on evaluating the circulation statistics of these
items 12 to 18 months after enhancement to determine whether these practices are worth
implementing more broadly