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Advocating For Technical Services Through Assessment (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge Jan 2018

Advocating For Technical Services Through Assessment (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

This presentation discusses how managers can advocate for technical services through a variety of assessment activities.


Benchmarking Vended Authority Control Practices In Arl Libraries, Rebecca Mugridge, Rebecca Nous, Nancy Poehlmann, Wendy West Jan 2018

Benchmarking Vended Authority Control Practices In Arl Libraries, Rebecca Mugridge, Rebecca Nous, Nancy Poehlmann, Wendy West

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

This article presents the results of a survey designed to benchmark the use of vendors to support authority control activities in Association of Research Libraries member libraries. Such activities include updating authority or bibliographic records, sourcing authority records, participation in cooperative cataloging efforts, and more. The survey investigated whether and how responding libraries used vendors to create and maintain an authority file and process current cataloging records. The survey gathered demographic and other information about the libraries, and the authors sought to identify trends and correlations between these and other factors.