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Indiana Government Document Light Archive Explained, Bert Chapman
Indiana Government Document Light Archive Explained, Bert Chapman
Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations
Describes details involved in preparing and implementing the Indiana Government Document Light Archive by the Indiana State Library, and libraries at Indiana University, Purdue University, and University of Notre Dame. Emphasizes how each of these libraries decided which agencies collections they would assume stewardship responsibilities for and how these institutions provide bibliographic control, preservation, and reference services to enable users to access these U.S. Government information resources.
Notes On Operations: One Title, Hundreds Of Volumes, Thousands Of Documents: Collaborating To Describe The Congressional Serial Set, Suzanne M. Ward, Patty A. Glasson, Randall F. Roeder
Notes On Operations: One Title, Hundreds Of Volumes, Thousands Of Documents: Collaborating To Describe The Congressional Serial Set, Suzanne M. Ward, Patty A. Glasson, Randall F. Roeder
Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research
As part of its participation in the Google Books government documents scanning project, the Purdue University Libraries agreed to contribute volumes of the Congressional Serial Set (CSS). Realizing that the results would be far more useful if the individual documents within this title were cataloged separately, librarians developed procedures to create brief records and began cataloging CSS documents from the 1890s. The University of Iowa became a partner in this collaborative pilot project, and its cataloging staff used the Purdue template and procedures to create records from the CSS for individual documents from two years in the 1890s. …