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2011

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Is There Value In Value-Added Cataloging?, Lauren K. Marshall, Mina Chercourt Apr 2011

Is There Value In Value-Added Cataloging?, Lauren K. Marshall, Mina Chercourt

Lauren K. Marshall

We discuss a project they conducted to identify whether adding table of contents and analytics to certain materials in the collection would increase circulation. They selected monographic series in the Q classification that were titled separately and five or six large series in the Ps for analyzing. The work resulted in significant increases in circulation of the materials ( anywhere from 59% to 186%). The work was labor intensive, but the increased use of the materials made it certainly worthwhile.

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Erm Implementation At Loyola Marymount University, Meghan Weeks, Marie Kennedy Dec 2010

Erm Implementation At Loyola Marymount University, Meghan Weeks, Marie Kennedy

Marie R. Kennedy

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Facilitating Greater Access To Etds Through Contentdm, Rachel Howard, Tyler Goldberg Dec 2010

Facilitating Greater Access To Etds Through Contentdm, Rachel Howard, Tyler Goldberg

Rachel I. Howard

Bound theses and dissertations (BTDs) have increasingly been supplemented or replaced by electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Since 2002, the University of Louisville Libraries have been building a collection of born-digital and digitized ETDs in order to provide free worldwide access to these titles, and to enable graduate
students to include digital media in their works. In 2009 the Libraries migrated the ETD collection from a homegrown database to CONTENTdm, in order to allow for full-text searching and simultaneous searching of other electronic collections. This article will discuss the cataloging workflows for the different phases of the project, including the …

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