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2014

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Peering Into The Gap: An Exploration Of Technical Services Outsourcing And The Library Profession, Leanne Olson May 2014

Peering Into The Gap: An Exploration Of Technical Services Outsourcing And The Library Profession, Leanne Olson

Leanne Olson

Outsourcing of cataloguing is becoming more and more common at academic libraries as a way to save time and money. What does outsourcing mean for the academic library profession? 

While investigating the topic of deprofessionalization of librarianship, and the professional/paraprofessional divide between librarians and library assistants at academic institutions, we noticed a gap in the literature when it came to technical services/cataloguing departments. Specifically, the people at private firms who contribute much of the cataloguing and metadata to universities are not represented in the literature. What role do they play in librarianship and specifically cataloguing/metadata librarianship, as a profession?  How included …

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Data Management For Research Grants: A Marquette Pilot Project, Rose Fortier, Lynn K. Whittenberger May 2014

Data Management For Research Grants: A Marquette Pilot Project, Rose Fortier, Lynn K. Whittenberger

Rose Fortier

Presenters will report on an ongoing pilot project to manage data generated by National Science Foundation grants using bepress’ Digital Commons institutional repository software. The challenge of creating a home for data on a repository created for publications was met through the creation of a series that brings together all grant output, i.e. raw and aggregated data, publications, presentations, and other research output. Further challenges in obtaining and managing varying formats of raw data (numerical, image, video, sound), and large volumes of data will be discussed. Metadata for series with such diverse formats presents its own difficulties, especially when a …

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