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Aidez Moi: Cleaning Up Non_English Language Cataloging, Sarah H. Theimer
Aidez Moi: Cleaning Up Non_English Language Cataloging, Sarah H. Theimer
Faculty Publications
From a Presentation given at ELUNA Learns, September 8, 2021. This presentation discusses the importance of using quality data in describing non_English Language material, as often errors negatively impact searching and public displays. By correcting the language codes, add 800 paired MARC fields, and correcting Diacritics the library can improve the quality of these records.
My Internship At Freeman's Auction, Abigail Krasutsky
My Internship At Freeman's Auction, Abigail Krasutsky
Art and Art History Presentations
In this presentation I will go through a typical day at my internship at Freeman's Auction in Philadelphia, along with some of the projects I was involved in. I describe the process of some of the things I learned and how this affected my career search after I graduate from college.
Olac Video Game Genre Vocabulary, Rosemary Groenwald, Jay L. Colbert, Eduardo Fojo, Julia Frankosky, Netanel Ganin, Rachel Jaffe, Charles Lemme, Neil Robinson, George Wrenn
Olac Video Game Genre Vocabulary, Rosemary Groenwald, Jay L. Colbert, Eduardo Fojo, Julia Frankosky, Netanel Ganin, Rachel Jaffe, Charles Lemme, Neil Robinson, George Wrenn
OLAC Publications and Training Materials
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Overcoming The Challenges Of Implementing Standardized Metadata Practices In A Digital Repository, Sai Deng
Overcoming The Challenges Of Implementing Standardized Metadata Practices In A Digital Repository, Sai Deng
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
While implementing standards in cataloging digital collections is often a Metadata Librarian’s conscience or inner desire, sometimes it’s a challenge to do so if a system is not built to accommodate such standardized practices. This kind of dilemma is not uncommon in the metadata and digital repository arena. This presentation will address the various challenges in working with metadata in digital repositories such as, name authority control for authors, departments and colleges, type values selection, keywords and subject choices, whether to add linked data URIs to various fields in the records and data discrepancies in harvesting data into the OCLC’s …
Diving Into The University Knowledge Community: Navigating The Expanded Role Of The Metadata Librarian, Sai Deng
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Metadata librarians' engaging in the university knowledge community is becoming a trend in recent years. In preparing for this change, it can be challenging for the metadata librarians to step out of the "back room", engage in scholarly communication and actively participate in the university knowledge community. This presentation discusses the shifting environment, the required changes for the metadata librarians such as developing professional and technical competency, acquiring new knowledge and skills and getting into the new world to be more connected to students, faculty and researchers, and various factors that will affect the situation. It concludes that the best …
Queering The Library Of Congress, Carlos R. Fernandez
Queering The Library Of Congress, Carlos R. Fernandez
Works of the FIU Libraries
This poster will attempt to apply the techniques used in Queer Theory to explore library and information science’s use and misuse of library classification systems; and to examine how “queering” these philosophical categories can not only improve libraries, but also help change social constructs.
For millennia, philosophers, such as Plato and Aristotle, have used and expounded upon categories and systems of classification. Their purpose is to make research and the retrieval of information easier. Unfortunately, the rules used to categorize and catalog make information retrieval more challenging for some, due to social constructs such as heteronormality.
The importance of this …
Common Cause: Using Assessment To Advocate For Technical Services (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge
Common Cause: Using Assessment To Advocate For Technical Services (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge
University Libraries Faculty Scholarship
This presentation demonstrates how assessment activities and results can serve as an advocacy tool for technical services divisions of libraries.
Copy Cataloging Made (Even) Easier, Richard Wisneski
Copy Cataloging Made (Even) Easier, Richard Wisneski
Richard Wisneski
Presentation on workflows for copy cataloging with a small staff that results in no backlogs and efficiency
Copy Cataloging Made (Even) Easier, Richard Wisneski
Copy Cataloging Made (Even) Easier, Richard Wisneski
Michael Schwartz Library Publications
Presentation on workflows for copy cataloging with a small staff that results in no backlogs and efficiency