Cataloging and Metadata Commons^™

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

Library Scholarship

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 …

Keeping Up With Ebooks: Automated Normalization And Access Checking With Normac, Kathryn Lybarger

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

Cataloging ebooks is difficult to do well, as they are often purchased in large collections, sometimes with only low-quality cataloging copy available. MARC records may be provided upfront in a large batch, or trickle in one at a time as they become available. Records may contain links that point nowhere, to the wrong book, or to an offer to sell you the book you already own. Loading records sight unseen may introduce inconsistency or overlay good print records with poor electronic ones, making the catalog much more difficult to search.

This article describes in more detail the major challenges in …

Transforming Digital Collections Into Linked Data: The Rise Of Missing Links, Silvia B. Southwick, Cory K. Lampert

Library Faculty Presentations

Goals

• Study the feasibility of developing a common process that would allow the conversion of our collection records into linked data preserving their original expressivity and richness
• Publish data from our collections in the Linked Open Data Cloud to improve discover-ability and connections with other related data sets on the Web

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

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

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

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

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized March 2013 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ex Libris Bluegrass Users Group Newsletter

eBUG 2013 Program

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

Ex Libris Bluegrass Users Group Newsletter

Presentation at eBUG 2013 by Kathryn Lybarger, University of Kentucky

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

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.