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Full-Text Articles in Cataloging and Metadata

Information Outlook, March/April 2013, Special Libraries Association Apr 2013

Information Outlook, March/April 2013, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2013

Volume 17, Issue 2


Rethinking The C. Y. Thompson Library For The 21st Century Task Force Report, Mark Balschweid, Larry Van Tassell, Jill Brown, Charlene Maxey-Harris, Nancy J. Busch, Vishal Singh, Jeanetta Drueke, Sue Voss, Tom Field Apr 2013

Rethinking The C. Y. Thompson Library For The 21st Century Task Force Report, Mark Balschweid, Larry Van Tassell, Jill Brown, Charlene Maxey-Harris, Nancy J. Busch, Vishal Singh, Jeanetta Drueke, Sue Voss, Tom Field

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: White Papers

The C. Y. Thompson (CYT) Library enjoys a location central to east campus. This creates an ideal setting for CYT to serve as a hub for activities of all kinds. And, based upon the feedback from online surveys and face-to-face focus groups, there is no shortage of interest and ideas for how CYT can become the premier gathering place on UNL’s east campus for users from all backgrounds. In spite of this, the primary question needing to be addressed is ‘what is C. Y. Thompson’? Is it a building? Is it a library? Is it something entirely different? The task …


Digitalcommons Report: 2013 Board Of Directors, Jean Bigger, Glenn W. "Max" Mcgee, Paula Garrett, Diana Sharp Mar 2013

Digitalcommons Report: 2013 Board Of Directors, Jean Bigger, Glenn W. "Max" Mcgee, Paula Garrett, Diana Sharp

DigitalCommons Documents

“We will generate scholarship that discovers, integrates, applies and demonstrates the effectiveness of our practices and transfers knowledge produced by our work."


Developing A Video Game Metadata Schema For The Seattle Interactive Media Museum, Rachel I. Clarke, Jin Ha Lee, Joseph T. Tennis, Michael Carpenter Mar 2013

Developing A Video Game Metadata Schema For The Seattle Interactive Media Museum, Rachel I. Clarke, Jin Ha Lee, Joseph T. Tennis, Michael Carpenter

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

As interest in video games increases, so does the need for intelligent access to them. However, traditional organizational systems and standards fall short. In order to fill this gap, we are collaborating with the Seattle Interactive Media Museum to develop a formal metadata schema for video games. In the paper, we describe how the schema was established from a user-centered design approach and introduce the core elements from our schema. We also discuss the challenges we encountered as we were conducting a domain analysis and cataloging real-world examples of video games. Inconsistent, vague, and subjective sources of information for title, …


Volume 33, Number 1, March 2013 Olac Newsletter, Marcy A. Strong, Bruce Evans, Christina Hennessey, Jan Mayo, T.J. Kao, Jay Weitz, Bojana Skarich Mar 2013

Volume 33, Number 1, March 2013 Olac Newsletter, Marcy A. Strong, Bruce Evans, Christina Hennessey, Jan Mayo, T.J. Kao, Jay Weitz, Bojana Skarich

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized March 2013 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.


Information Outlook, January/February 2013, Special Libraries Association Feb 2013

Information Outlook, January/February 2013, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2013

Volume 17, Issue 1


Searching Mindfully: Are Libraries Up To The Challenge Of Competing With Google Books?, Amrita Dhawan Feb 2013

Searching Mindfully: Are Libraries Up To The Challenge Of Competing With Google Books?, Amrita Dhawan

Publications and Research

Traditional research tools used by libraries, such as encyclopedias and catalogs (OPACs) were created in an age of print and information scarcity. They have not kept up with changes in the information world which assume an abundance of online information in different formats and interdisciplinary topics which attempt to solve ‘real world’ messy problems and not traditional theoretical questions. The traditional tools rest on an unwieldy and somewhat outdated collaboration between OCLC, LOC, private aggregators, librarians and faculty. The search results they deliver offer excessive information with very little guidance on how to systematically sift through them. This makes the …


Assessment In Practice (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge Jan 2013

Assessment In Practice (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

This presentation provides some strategies that cataloging managers can use to evaluate and assess the services they offer.


Frbr For Movies And Finding Frbr In Marc, Kelley Mcgrath Jan 2013

Frbr For Movies And Finding Frbr In Marc, Kelley Mcgrath

ALA Presentations

Kelley McGrath discussed her project on finding FRBR in MARC data for movies, and presented a number of ways that AV catalogers can help to create or to modify existing MARC records in order to generate a FRBR model that improves access to film and video materials, such as by genre, format, or date of production.


Noobs Ftw!: A Discussion Of Challenges & Resources For New Music Catalogers, Autumn Faulkner Jan 2013

Noobs Ftw!: A Discussion Of Challenges & Resources For New Music Catalogers, Autumn Faulkner

ALA Presentations

Autumn Faulkner presented a practical look at how a new music cataloger can strategize the navigation of many cataloging standards, and how to succeed in facing the challenges imposed by learning both basic cataloging as well as specialized music cataloging in the same breath.


Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, The University Of Southern Mississippi, The University Of Southern Mississippi's School Of Library And Information Science Jan 2013

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, The University Of Southern Mississippi, The University Of Southern Mississippi's School Of Library And Information Science

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Programs

The program for the forty-sixth annual Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival held on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 2013.


Color By Numbers: An Exploration Of The Use Of Color As Classification Notation, Rachel I. Clarke Jan 2013

Color By Numbers: An Exploration Of The Use Of Color As Classification Notation, Rachel I. Clarke

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Notation is a fundamental component of a classification scheme, especially library and bibliographic classification. However, notation is often considered an afterthought or auxiliary to classification itself. With the advances in technology, classification systems, including their notation, must evolve. What, if any, possibilities lie beyond alphanumeric characters and symbols? The author explores the possible use of color as classificatory notation by looking at the traditional qualities of notation and the classificatory needs it must accommodate, various theories and standards of color, and their possible applications to classification notation. Theoretical and practical implications are considered and discussed, as well as larger implications …


Ebug 2013 Program, Julene L. Jones Jan 2013

Ebug 2013 Program, Julene L. Jones

Ex Libris Bluegrass Users Group Newsletter

eBUG 2013 Program


Ebug 2013 Minutes, Julene L. Jones Jan 2013

Ebug 2013 Minutes, Julene L. Jones

Ex Libris Bluegrass Users Group Newsletter

eBUG 2013 meeting minutes, approved at eBUG 2014, June 20, 2014


Writing Macros And Programs For Voyager Cataloging, Kathryn Lybarger Jan 2013

Writing Macros And Programs For Voyager Cataloging, Kathryn Lybarger

Ex Libris Bluegrass Users Group Newsletter

Presentation at eBUG 2013 by Kathryn Lybarger, University of Kentucky


2013 Ebug Business Meeting Agenda, Julene L. Jones Jan 2013

2013 Ebug Business Meeting Agenda, Julene L. Jones

Ex Libris Bluegrass Users Group Newsletter

2013 eBUG Business Meeting Agenda


Technical Services Assessment In Pennsylvania Academic Libraries (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge Jan 2013

Technical Services Assessment In Pennsylvania Academic Libraries (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

Academic libraries regularly conduct assessment of library services through the use of rubrics or assessment tools such as LibQual™. Technical services activities are frequently assessed; however, the assessment is typically limited to the evaluation of specific processes. This study was designed to explore assessment activities in Pennsylvania’s academic libraries. The author designed a survey to investigate whether technical services activities are assessed, how they are assessed, who is responsible for assessment of technical services, how the results of assessment activities are shared with others, and how those results are used to improve services or for other purposes.


Assessment Strategies For Cataloging Managers (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge Jan 2013

Assessment Strategies For Cataloging Managers (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

Qualitative assessment activities, when conducted regularly and methodically, can help managers and administrators understand the impact and value of the work that we do for our customers. Are we meeting our customers' needs? Are there services that we could provide but currently do not? What are our customers’ priorities? Are we responsive to their questions and issues? Are we working as effectively as we can? This webinar will explore the use of customer service surveys, focus groups, quality initiatives, benchmarking, and other methods to evaluate and assess the work that we do.


Implementing Discovery At The University Of North Alabama, Amy Butler, Leigh Thompson Jan 2013

Implementing Discovery At The University Of North Alabama, Amy Butler, Leigh Thompson

Collier Library and Information Services

Collier Library, the main library at the University of North Alabama (UNA), provides the campus community with access to over 150 electronic resources. With so many available options, our students often overlook valuable databases. Analysis of usage statistics had shown that some of our most expensive databases had the highest cost per retrieval. Therefore, finding a product that would encourage users to utilize the full range of available databases became a top priority. In the summer of 2010, the Collier Library staff began to seriously investigate the discovery tool marketplace. We felt that the “single search box” concept of discovery …


In The Beginning ... There Was Netlibrary, Barbara Anderson Jan 2013

In The Beginning ... There Was Netlibrary, Barbara Anderson

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

A chronicle of the growth of electronic books in the VCU Libraries collections, the challenges this format presents to cataloging and user discovery, and the approaches taken by VCU Libraries to address these challenges.


To Rda Or Not To Rda Jan 2013

To Rda Or Not To Rda

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This was a questionnaire first sent out by email on the Association of Christian Librarians listserv; the results of which were then presented at the ACL 2013 conference.


Positioning Library Data For The Semantic Web: Recent Developments In Resource Description, Kimmy Szeto Jan 2013

Positioning Library Data For The Semantic Web: Recent Developments In Resource Description, Kimmy Szeto

Publications and Research

Recent developments in resource description standards and technologies have aimed at moving cataloging practice to the web environment and making library data available for exchange and reuse on the Semantic Web. As the library community looks outward and forward, library standards and technologies are converging with Web practices in three areas: content description, data models, and data exchange. This article captures the essence of the core standards and technologies that underlie the daily work of practitioners of library service, including Resource Description and Access (RDA), Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), the Linked Data environment, Resource Description Framework (RDF), and …


Extending And Customizing Content Discovery For The Legal Academic Community With Innovative Interfaces' Pathfinder Pro: The Pence Law Library Approach, Sima Mirkin Jan 2013

Extending And Customizing Content Discovery For The Legal Academic Community With Innovative Interfaces' Pathfinder Pro: The Pence Law Library Approach, Sima Mirkin

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Incorporation of technological tools into teaching methodology is an ongoing process. Using graphic illustrations with explanations, this article will demonstrate the functionality of one such tool, Innovative Interfaces’ Pathfinder Pro, a context-sensitive linking mechanism, in conjunction with the Pence Law Library online catalogue. The article also discusses the benefits of using this tool in legal research instructions and distance learning programs.


To Rda Or Not To Rda.Pdf Jan 2013

To Rda Or Not To Rda.Pdf

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This was a questionnaire first sent out by email on the Association of Christian Librarians listserv; the results of which were then presented at the ACL 2013 conference.