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Digital Repositories As A Way To Manage Data And Reputation Beyond Publications, Thea P. Atwood, Erin Jerome, Dan Valen

University Libraries Presentations Series

Institutional Repositories (IRs) can be (and are) implemented at Universities and Colleges to capture organization output and non-traditional research objects and artifacts. Repositories can help improve workflow and reporting mechanisms: e.g., it’s a known place to deposit data or papers, and repository managers (typically in the Library) get usage statistics, and we can tell some interesting stories about use. IRs can:

• help improve the attention and impact of university-affiliated published research
• showcase work (e.g, top 10 downloads; spotlight paper; recent additions; and more)
• help with management of work created on a campus – i.e., ensure research generated on campus is …

Developing A Vendor Scorecard As A Tool To Re-Allocate Acquisitions Dollars And Transform Scholarly Communication, Christine N. Turner

University Libraries Presentations Series

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I {Heart} Meetings... (Don't Stop Believin'), Ann Kardos

University Libraries Presentations Series

A presentation given at the December meeting of the Five College Cataloging & Metadata Group, regarding running better and more effective meetings.

Empowering Through Staff Training And Team Skill Building, Jennifer M. Eustis, Meghan Bergin

University Libraries Presentations Series

This topic aims to open up a discussion on how staff training and skill building workshops can empower both veteran and new staff in technical services and cross train staff outside of technical services on metadata and cataloging projects. Training and skill building occur frequently in and out of the office. At UMass Amherst, several staff have moved on, new staff have arrived, and the library is preparing for a migration to a new Library Services Platform. These changes have led to staff taking on new responsibilities and well as several cross training opportunities. Workshops have been recently offered to …

Follow The Trail, Jennifer M. Eustis

University Libraries Presentations Series

This presentation highlights the use of MarcEdit and Python to solve commonly encountered issues when dealing with electronic resources.

Combining Active Learning Exercises, Blake Spitz

University Libraries Presentations Series

This lightning talk offers an example of combining active learning exercises to achieve multiple learning outcomes (some simple, such as resource identification, and some more complex, such as understanding archival silences and power dynamics in research access). The class was in Special Collections, but the active learning exercises – one a version of “speed-dating,” and the other a version of exhibit or bibliography curation – could easily be used in a more general library information literacy class. These activities are not new, but I had never combined them in this way before, and I have found, as a result, that …

Creating A Sustainable Workflow For Converting Online Finding Aids Into Marc Records, Ann Kardos

University Libraries Presentations Series

Data regarding library collections exists in many locations. While this often works for those researchers who know what they're looking for, one institution created a plan to convert online finding aids into MARC records for the discovery layer. The project makes additional avenues to discover unique collections but also gives opportunities to create Library of Congress name authority records for distinct entities or hidden individuals and groups. This project became a model for standardization of this work across the consortium, and brought together stakeholders from metadata, special collections, archives, digital collections and library IT.

Does Working In Batch Mean Sacrificing Quality Metadata?, Jennifer M. Eustis

University Libraries Presentations Series

Batch processing metadata for electronic resources means working with records of varying quality. Common issues include titles in all sorts of cases, missing information such as publication, URLs, or fixed field data, lack of information needed for local best practices, or inconsistent vendor and/or OCLC numbers. These issues can be daunting and involve a significant amount of cleanup that can slow the batch processing down or make it ineffective. To help process title sets of records, I have begun using a suite of tools that include MarcEdit, OpenRefine, Excel, and Python. These tools help me address common issues and implement …

Adopting A Method To Evaluate Bibliographic Electronic Resource Title Sets Of Metadata, Jennifer M. Eustis

University Libraries Presentations Series

This article briefly describes how a method to evaluate title sets of metadata that are batch loaded into the catalog is being developed.

From Intentional Meandering To Roadmap: Umass Amherst Libraries' Philosophical And Practical Considerations For Investing With "Open" Content Providers, Christine N. Turner, Scott A. Stangroom, Knowledge Unlatched

University Libraries Presentations Series

UMass Amherst (UMA) has chosen to invest in myriad models of open content, systems and advocacy organizations for well over a decade. What at first was an experimental approach has become more values-based, considered and collaborative. Consistent with its strategic plan, the Libraries are intentionally allocating and tracking part of their acquisitions budget to open scholarship. In an ecosystem of ever-increasing options, the social sciences and humanities (SSH) disciplines, monographs, and non-author processing charge (APC) funding are all under-represented in the open access market. UMA Libraries were an early supporter of Knowledge Unlatched (KU) as providers of OA monographs in …

Introduction To Marcedit Part I And Ii, Jennifer M. Eustis

University Libraries Presentations Series

This presentations introduces the basics and more advanced features of MarcEdit, a MARC editing tool.