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Alternative Vocabularies: What To Do When Lcsh Isn't Enough, Sasha Frizzell Apr 2024

Alternative Vocabularies: What To Do When Lcsh Isn't Enough, Sasha Frizzell

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Catalogers in the United States primarily use Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) to describe the resources in their libraries, but sometimes, there isn't an LCSH term that is the right fit. Sometimes, terms are too broad or too narrow; occasionally, terms are simply outdated, and unfortunately, some are pejorative. When that happens, it's time to introduce an alternative vocabulary into the cataloging workflow. This presentation will introduce four alternative subject heading vocabularies: Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms, Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Rare Books and Manuscripts Controlled Vocabulary, and Homosaurus. Each vocabulary will be presented with a broad …

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Call Numbers, Oh Call Numbers On Ebooks, Why Have You Forsaken Us!, David Schuster, Sasha Frizzell Mar 2023

Call Numbers, Oh Call Numbers On Ebooks, Why Have You Forsaken Us!, David Schuster, Sasha Frizzell

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ILS vendor Knowledge bases (KB) are built in a black box. The quality of the metadata is not the concern of the ILS vendor which then leads to missing data, which impacts discoverability. Comparing records of two ILS vendors KBs has shown a disparity in how they manage metadata. We are evaluating multiple ebook publishers’ data in the KB based on the availability of call numbers and subject headings while looking at resource usage. Exploring ways to improve access by including call numbers and subject headings and discovering the larger problem.

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Classification From The Margins : Three Alternative Classification Systems, 1930-1975, Sasha Frizzell Mar 2023

Classification From The Margins : Three Alternative Classification Systems, 1930-1975, Sasha Frizzell

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Library classification systems frequently fail librarians and patrons because they do not provide space for the depth and breadth of topics both about and created by people within marginalized communities. This presentation explores three classification systems, created in North America between 1930-1975, that were produced by people in and for the communities that they represent. In 1930, Dorothy Burnett Porter Wesley, a librarian who helped to build the collection at Howard University, also created a classification system to better represent the works by, about, and for Black people. During the same time period, Alfred Kaiming Chiu was creating the Harvard-Yenching …

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Composers' Collected Works: A Case Study In Remote Work Compatible Catalog Maintenance, David Floyd Jun 2022

Composers' Collected Works: A Case Study In Remote Work Compatible Catalog Maintenance, David Floyd

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Approximately 15% of Binghamton University Libraries' 28,000 musical scores are collections of scores comprising a composer's complete works. Ideally, these large, multipart, non-circulating collections are cataloged consistently with either comprehensive records for each set, or individual records for each score within the set. Our catalog is inconsistent in this approach and requires remediation. The resulting workflow maximizes flexibility in who participates, where, and when, by siloing the portion of the work requiring data processing and advanced music cataloging skills. This poster will show both the workflow for standardizing composers' collected works sets, and how the project is designed for remote …

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Streaming The Archives: Repurposing Systems To Jumpstart A Media Digitization Program, Talea Anderson Mar 2015

Streaming The Archives: Repurposing Systems To Jumpstart A Media Digitization Program, Talea Anderson

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Presenting lessons learned by the archives at Central Washington University during the first year of its new media digitization program. This poster, presented in 2015 at ACRL's national conference, demonstrates how the archives jumpstarted its program by using available systems--an institutional repository and cloud-based streaming service--to disseminate digitized media. The poster presents advantages and disadvantages uncovered while using these repurposed systems, including consequences for metadata, workflow, interoperability, and discoverability.

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Guidelines For Cataloging Unpublished Screenplays, Laura N. Evans Jan 2015

Guidelines For Cataloging Unpublished Screenplays, Laura N. Evans

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These guidelines for cataloging unpublished screenplays were developed at Binghamton University Libraries to guide catalogers field by field as they describe individual film screenplays.

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We’Ll Help You Handel It: Music Resources For Library Services, Mary Wise, Verletta Kern, Erin Conor, Bob Tangney, Laurel Sercombe, Ann Shaffer, Judy Tsou Apr 2013

We’Ll Help You Handel It: Music Resources For Library Services, Mary Wise, Verletta Kern, Erin Conor, Bob Tangney, Laurel Sercombe, Ann Shaffer, Judy Tsou

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Do you receive music questions at your reference desk? Are you in charge of purchasing music books, scores, and media materials? Do you catalog music materials? If you said yes to any of the above, this session is for you! In this lightning round style presentation, you’ll hear from a panel of music librarians who work in public, academic and archival settings. Learn about resources to use for collection development, resources to ease cataloging music materials, resources to answer those tricky reference questions, and how the Pacific NW Chapter of the Music Library Association acts as a networking resource for …

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The Open Worldcat Is Out Of The Bag, Mary Wise Jul 2006

The Open Worldcat Is Out Of The Bag, Mary Wise

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This article discusses the features of Open Worldcat, a public interface to OCLC's WorldCat online library catalog.

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Cataloging The Congressional Serial Set, Aimée C. Quinn Jan 2005

Cataloging The Congressional Serial Set, Aimée C. Quinn

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Many librarians question the usefulness of the traditional cataloging of difficult historic sets in a time when more and more information moves either to the Internet or is digitized outright. One of the most challenging sets to catalog is the United States Congressional Serial Set, a 14,000+ (and growing) mega serial comprised of five monographic sub-series. The Congressional Serial Set is an anomaly since it is both monographic and serial in nature. This article examines the intricacies in cataloging government publications in an electronic atmosphere using one House document in the Serial Set as a guide and examines the two …

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Open Government, Closed Stacks: Onsite Storage Of Depository Materials, Aimée C. Quinn, Michaelyn Haslam Jan 1998

Open Government, Closed Stacks: Onsite Storage Of Depository Materials, Aimée C. Quinn, Michaelyn Haslam

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Storage of growing collections is an ongoing problem for libraries. Past attempts at using the industrial solution of automated storage and retrieval systems (AYRS) ended in failure. However. improvements in these mechanisms. especially computer control and the ability to interface with online library catalogs. make them a viable option for libraries. Questions remain about the appropriateness of treating intellectual material like industrial parts. In addition. access is still an issue especially in regard to government depository documents. A literature review shows that while there is a tremendous amount of research available on the design of AYRS. little is written about …

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