the library community at the wide-ranging seminar, Sarah was tasked with making the topic of library metadata an engaging and informative one for a largely publisher audience. With help from co-author Amanda Quimby, this article is an attempt to achieve the same aim! It covers the importance of library metadata and standards in the supply chain and also reflects on the role of the community in successful standards development and maintenance. Special emphasis is given to the importance of quality in e-book metadata and the need for publisher and library collaboration to improve discovery, usage and the student experience. The article details the University of Birmingham experience of e-book metadata from a workflow perspective to highlight the complex integration issues which remain between content procurement and discovery. A renaissance in library metadata?The importance of community collaboration in a digital world Introduction I was privileged to be asked to speak on the topic of library metadata and standards at the ALPSP seminar 'Setting the Standard' in November 2015 1 alongside a range of excellent speakers representing different stakeholders who have experience in standards development and maintenance in our community. What became clear, after reflecting on my extensive notes during the train journey home that day, is that there is just so much to absorb about how we utilize and contribute to standards to improve our organizations and customer experiences.There is no getting away from it -metadata and standards can be rather a dry topic of discussion. However, without standards, we would not have an effective supply chain, would not be able to benchmark our services and products and would not be able to deliver content to our users successfully. Without standards, how would we identify ourselves as unique authors? How would we link users to the right 'version' of the journal, book, article or chapter -relative to our perspective? How would we assess value and usage across our services? With thousands of transactions passing through our library systems every year, we would not operate efficiently without standards for transactions, bibliographic metadata, content linking, holdings metadata and usage reporting. They oil the cogs in the machine-tomachine transfer of notifications, events and data.What is meant by 'library metadata' in this day and age? I find it increasingly difficult to discuss standards, identifiers and metrics as specifically 'library'. By and large, we develop standards as a community. Many of the standards and identifiers that libraries rely on for service provision are also hugely important to the business of publishing. Having been involved with both Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (KBART) 2 and COUNTER 3 initiatives and assisted with their advocacy, it becomes clear that standards need to be based on two core principles: utility to me/my organization and ease of adoption. If both boxes are ticked and our customers rely on the improvements that standards development can facilitate...
Sexology emerged as a discipline during a period of keen concern about the social effects of sexually explicit media. In this context, sex researchers and their allies took pains to establish the respectability of their work, a process that often involved positioning sexual science in opposition to erotic literature and images. This article argues that this presentation of sexual science obfuscated sex researchers’ complex relationship with erotic print culture, which during the late 19th and early 20th centuries provided sexual scientists with access to explicit material that served as evidence for theories about human sexuality, facilitated transnational exchanges of sexual-scientific thought by bringing sex research across borders, and introduced sex research to wider audiences. Erotic print culture can thus be seen as one of several fields that contributed to the interdisciplinary development of sexology and facilitated the diffusion of sexual-scientific theories. Sex researchers’ shifting, often ambivalent relationship with erotic print and its producers emphasizes that while the boundaries of sexology were extremely porous, they were also heavily policed: Working to establish a modern, respectable new branch of science, sexual scientists reframed the output of other fields of enquiry as products of their own, blotted their reliance on these sources from the historical record, and denigrated them in public writing.
My conjectures as to the character of the contents of-'s cabinet were correct! For, my dear, I have found, secured, and appropriated that key. The long sought for, long talked of, is mine at last! And the cabinet has been explored! Oh, it is fearful. I didn't dream there were such books in the world.. .. You haven't any idea how perfectly awful they are. Why, it's enough to make the very paper they're on blush.. .. What would the handsome and unsuspecting-say, if only he knew of a certain young lady's discoveries, and the liberties taken with his treasures? He is still abroad, perhaps getting new rarities for his collection. 1
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