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Worldcat Quality: An Oclc Report, Karen S. Calhoun, Glenn Patton
Worldcat Quality: An Oclc Report, Karen S. Calhoun, Glenn Patton
Karen S Calhoun
This report describes OCLC's steps to make it easier to find items in WorldCat and get them from OCLC member libraries. It begins with a review of WorldCat's unprecedented growth since 2008--growth which has challenged OCLC's programs for managing duplicate entries and library location (holdings) information. OCLC's 2010 implementation of new duplication detection and resolution (DDR) software helped; however, WorldCat quality needs to be further strengthened. The authors describe a special project—GLIMIR—and other WorldCat quality improvement projects intended to improve the clustering of WorldCat records and holdings for the same work, thus reducing the complexity of search result displays and …
Rethinking Bibliographic Control In The Web Environment, Karen S. Calhoun
Rethinking Bibliographic Control In The Web Environment, Karen S. Calhoun
Karen S Calhoun
Cataloging and metadata services have reached a crossroads. The digital age presents fundamental challenges to building and describing collections of interest to the communities that libraries serve. Since the advent of the Web, what has been fundamental to libraries and higher education, what has constituted professional wisdom and best practice-all have been disrupted by new conditions. This article describes the environment in which libraries are operating and identifies the key trends driving change in metadata creation and management. It also outlines the characteristics of a next-generation metadata creation and management platform for libraries, which the OCLC cooperative is planning, to …
Online Catalogs : What Users And Librarians Want, Karen S. Calhoun, Joanne Cantrell, Peggy Gallagher, Diane Cellantani
Online Catalogs : What Users And Librarians Want, Karen S. Calhoun, Joanne Cantrell, Peggy Gallagher, Diane Cellantani
Karen S Calhoun
Although library catalogs are often thought of as discovery tools, the catalog’s delivery-related information is just as important to end users. This report presents findings from focus groups and online surveys of end users and library professionals that indicate what catalog data elements and services are rated as important to end users, and contrasts these requirements to what library professionals report they need from catalog data and services.
Being A Librarian: Metadata And Metadata Specialists In The Twenty-First Century, Karen S. Calhoun
Being A Librarian: Metadata And Metadata Specialists In The Twenty-First Century, Karen S. Calhoun
Karen S Calhoun
Based on an analysis of the larger context the global infosphere, information-seeking behavior, and changing roles for librarians and library collections, the chapter forecasts the role of metadata and metadata specialists in libraries in five to ten years.
The Changing Nature Of The Catalog And Its Integration With Other Discovery Tools, Karen S. Calhoun
The Changing Nature Of The Catalog And Its Integration With Other Discovery Tools, Karen S. Calhoun
Karen S Calhoun
A large and growing number of students and scholars routinely bypass library catalogs in favor of other discovery tools, and the catalog represents a shrinking proportion of the universe of scholarly information. This report, commissioned by the Library of Congress (LC), offers an analysis of the current situation, options for revitalizing research library catalogs, a feasibility assessment, a vision for change, and a blueprint for action.
An Integrated Framework For Discovering Digital Library Collections, Karen S. Calhoun
An Integrated Framework For Discovering Digital Library Collections, Karen S. Calhoun
Karen S Calhoun
Information seekers are generally on their own to discover and use a research library's growing array of digital collections, and coordination of these collections' development and maintenance is often not optimal. The frequent lack of a conscious design for how collections fit together is of concern because it means that research libraries are not making the most of the substantial investments they are making in digital initiatives. Discussing the author’s team’s research, this paper proposes a framework for a research library's digital collections that offers integrated discovery and a set of best practices to underpin collection building, federated access, and …
Mas 2010: Models For Academic Support: Final Report To The Mellon Foundation, Oya Rieger, Karen S. Calhoun, Susan Currie, Edward Weissman
Mas 2010: Models For Academic Support: Final Report To The Mellon Foundation, Oya Rieger, Karen S. Calhoun, Susan Currie, Edward Weissman
Karen S Calhoun
Assisted by a Mellon planning grant and led by principal investigator Sarah Thomas, a Cornell University project team investigated the potential of significant structural reorganization that would increase the value of the Library’s services to the University. The study revealed that the proposed benefits of restructuring are better support for scholarly creativity and communication; use of library space that privileges library users; more cost-effective allocation of resources; and the development of a new infrastructure to permit new relationships between libraries to flourish, enabling improved services at lower cost. To provide information from all the relevant stakeholders who would be affected …
Mixing And Mapping Metadata To Provide Integrated Access To Digital Library Collections: An Activity Report, Karen S. Calhoun, Tom Turner, Meryl Brodsky, George Kozak, Martin Kurth, Fred Muratori, David Ruddy, Sarah Young Chandler
Mixing And Mapping Metadata To Provide Integrated Access To Digital Library Collections: An Activity Report, Karen S. Calhoun, Tom Turner, Meryl Brodsky, George Kozak, Martin Kurth, Fred Muratori, David Ruddy, Sarah Young Chandler
Karen S Calhoun
This paper provides a report of work in progress to implement integrated access to multiple digital collections that are described using a variety of metadata formats. Using the emerging resource discovery and digital library management system, ENCompass, a team at Cornell University Library is experimenting with the principle of modularity–as described by Lagoze–in which a metadata format tailored for simplicity (Dublin Core) is used alongside other, more complex metadata formats.
Redesign Of Library Workflows: Experimental Models For Electronic Resource Description, Karen S. Calhoun
Redesign Of Library Workflows: Experimental Models For Electronic Resource Description, Karen S. Calhoun
Karen S Calhoun
Explores the transition from a highly centralized model for cataloging to an iterative, collaborative, and broadly distributed model for electronic resource description. The purpose is to alert library managers to some experiments underway and to help them conceptualize new methods for defining, planning, and leading the e-resource description process under moderate to severe time and staffing constraints.
Interim Report: Pcc Standing Committee On Automation (Sca). Task Group On Journals In Aggregator Databases, Karen S. Calhoun, John J. Riemer
Interim Report: Pcc Standing Committee On Automation (Sca). Task Group On Journals In Aggregator Databases, Karen S. Calhoun, John J. Riemer
Karen S Calhoun
Recommends a useful, cost-effective and timely means for automatically creating catalog records to identify e-journals in aggregator databases. The demonstration project was conducted by Karen Calhoun (chair of the SCA; Cornell), John Riemer (chair of the task group; U. Georgia) and Oliver Pesch (EBSCO) on behalf of the PCC SCA task group.
Designing For Wow!: The Optimal Information Gateway, Zsuzsa Koltay, Karen S. Calhoun
Designing For Wow!: The Optimal Information Gateway, Zsuzsa Koltay, Karen S. Calhoun
Karen S Calhoun
Presents the results of a focus group study to learn what users expect from networked information systems provided by university libraries.
Library Gateway: Project Design, Teams And Cycle Time, Karen S. Calhoun, Zsuzsa Koltay, Edward Weissman
Library Gateway: Project Design, Teams And Cycle Time, Karen S. Calhoun, Zsuzsa Koltay, Edward Weissman
Karen S Calhoun
Librarians at Cornell University Library (CUL) launched the first system-wide integrated gateway to networked resources, services, and library information in January 1998. Using a case study approach, this article examines the design and implementation process that helped the project succeed, rather than focusing on the technology or the vision behind the gateway. The authors identify and discuss critical success factors and the organizational learning experience that moved CUL a step closer to mastering the process of innovation.
A Bird's Eye View Of Authority Control In Cataloging, Karen S. Calhoun
A Bird's Eye View Of Authority Control In Cataloging, Karen S. Calhoun
Karen S Calhoun
In this invited paper for an NSF-funded workshop for the systematics and library communities, Calhoun relates the story of cooperative authority control in libraries, drawing parallels to the problem domain of the systematics community and biological information managers. She describes what made community-wide authority control possible in libraries; offers a high-level view of how it works from systems and practitioner perspectives; and assesses the limitations, prospects and challenges for the current authority control framework in libraries.
Changes In Central Technical Services: Backlog Elimination, Karen S. Calhoun, Jim Leblanc
Changes In Central Technical Services: Backlog Elimination, Karen S. Calhoun, Jim Leblanc
Karen S Calhoun
This report describes a cataloging backlog of about 97,000 items and outlines an innovative project to eliminate it without adding staff or slowing the processing of new receipts. Includes assessments of backlog content, growth rate, and underlying organizational issues that cause the backlog to be there and to grow.
Report On Stack Collocation Loss, Karen S. Calhoun
Report On Stack Collocation Loss, Karen S. Calhoun
Karen S Calhoun
This internal report for Cornell University Library evaluates the probable impact of simply accepting call numbers in cataloging copy, rather than reviewing and adjusting them to assure stack order is maintained over time.
Characteristics Of Member-Established Headings In The Oclc Database, Karen S. Calhoun
Characteristics Of Member-Established Headings In The Oclc Database, Karen S. Calhoun
Karen S Calhoun
Offers insights and recommendations on "gap" headings--OCLC member-contributed headings not covered by the LC name authority file--and suggests further analysis to identify headings for which "just in time" authority control would be appropriate. Extends what was learned in OCLC's early 1990s automated authority control project that corrected about 5.6 million headings in the OCLC database.
Database Quality: Its Cost, Focus, And Future, Karen S. Calhoun
Database Quality: Its Cost, Focus, And Future, Karen S. Calhoun
Karen S Calhoun
Briefly considers three questions: Can we afford OCLC database quality? Where is the best place to focus database quality efforts? Will advances in information technology make data quality efforts obsolete?
How Oclc And Member Libraries Are Improving The Online Union Catalog, Karen S. Calhoun, Nancy Campbell, Donna Gehring
How Oclc And Member Libraries Are Improving The Online Union Catalog, Karen S. Calhoun, Nancy Campbell, Donna Gehring
Karen S Calhoun
Describes programs for cooperatively managing and improving the quality of the OCLC database with respect to duplicate records, records containing insufficient information, incorrect or variant forms of headings, and coding errors. Includes a description of a large, innovative project using "intelligent software" to correct name and subject headings. OCLC expects at least 5 million heading corrections when the project completes late in 1993.
The Linked Systems Project Provides Current Access To Authority Information, Nita Dean, Karen S. Calhoun
The Linked Systems Project Provides Current Access To Authority Information, Nita Dean, Karen S. Calhoun
Karen S Calhoun
In 1985, the first computer-to-computer distribution of name authority records for cataloging was made through the Linked Systems Project (LSP), a networking tool that links the computer systems of the Library of Congress, the Research Libraries Group (RLG), and OCLC. Since then, two other LSP capabilities-record contribution and intersystem searching-have been implemented, providing the means for national sharing of name authority data among diverse systems.
Unique Words Contributed By Marc Records With Summary And/Or Contents Notes, Karen Markey, Karen S. Calhoun
Unique Words Contributed By Marc Records With Summary And/Or Contents Notes, Karen Markey, Karen S. Calhoun
Karen S Calhoun
Preprint of a paper for ASIS '87 that presents new analyses that quantitatively demonstrate the potential of bibliographic contents and summary notes (MARC fields 505 and 520) for enhancing subject access in online catalogs.
Costs Associated With The Public Card Catalogs At The University Of Oregon Library, Karen S. Calhoun
Costs Associated With The Public Card Catalogs At The University Of Oregon Library, Karen S. Calhoun
Karen S Calhoun
Preprint of a chapter developed from a 1986 ALA conference presentation. Reports on a study to determine catalog card unit costs and how much staff time would become available if the library were to cease maintaining the public card catalogs.