Partners in Collaborative Cataloging: The U.S. Government Printing Office and the University of Montana

Abstract

Collaboration is a necessity in the current library environment where time, money, and resources are limited. This is particularly noticeable for institutions housing federal government documents. In addition to keeping up with the influx of current publications, federal depository libraries must address historical documents for which bibliographic records are not readily available. This report discusses how the United States Government Printing Office and the University of Montana Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library are working together to increase access to pre-1976 United States Forest Service publications and gray literature within the same subject area.

From union catalogue to fusion catalogue

“…It explains why electronic resources cataloguing and access is one of the "popular" collaborative initiatives described in literature reviews, ranging from the development of consortial cataloguing standards (Carya and Ogburnb, 2000;Naun and Braxton, 2005;Chen, 2011;Martin et al, 2011) to cataloguing of selective e-book packages (Preston, 2011;Young et al, 2013). Sharing of workload is found to be an efficient way of achieving success on projects that would be time and resource intensive for individual organizations to pursue on their own (Keenan et al, 2013).…”

Collaborative Cataloging of Spanish Industrial Heritage Assets through Teaching in Project Management Subjects

“…It is in this context that the collaborative cataloging strategy has special potential. There are collaborative or cooperative cataloging initiatives, but more associated with intangible assets and mainly oriented to databases in which contents in digital formats are managed [39][40][41]. On the contrary, the cataloging experience analyzed in this work is oriented to the built industrial heritage.…”