Taking Advantage of Outsourcing Options: Using Purchased Record Sets to Maximize Cataloging Effectiveness

Banerjee, Kyle

doi:10.1300/j104v32n01_05

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“…Librarians are not immune to these perceptions; Banerjee discovered that librarians also avoid searching these print indexes. 8 Patterson asks, "If we [librarians] don't value [microformats] by providing a comparable level of detailed access points, is there any reason for our users to?" 9 The resistance to microformat use was created in part by a lack of good cataloging.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Swimming with the Fiches: Reviving the International Aerospace Abstracts Collection to Make It Discoverable and Accessible to Researchers

Davis

Edmunds

2018

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When the authors discovered a forgotten microfiche collection, they knew they needed to determine a process to make the information discoverable and accessible to researchers. Using a combination of manual data entry, cross-checking against printed indexes, and batch conversion of data using MarcEdit, they devised processes and workflows for creating reasonably good metadata for this large collection and for loading the MARC records into their local integrated library system. Their methods can serve as a model for any collection for which basic metadata would be useful in enhancing discovery and access.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Swimming with the Fiches: Reviving the International Aerospace Abstracts Collection to Make It Discoverable and Accessible to Researchers

Davis

Edmunds

2018

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“…However, vendor records come with their own set of challenges, including quality control and batch loading issues, as has been documented in the literature for U.S. depository materials, microform sets, and others types of library resources. 17 Martin and Mundle categorized the problems found in a set of vendor records for Springer e-books into three categories: access issues that prevented users from accessing the resource from the catalog (e.g., broken URLs and missing records); load issues that prevent libraries from loading the records into the catalog (e.g., incorrect overlays of existing records, improperly coded diacritics); and quality issues in which information in the record hampers the users' ability to locate the record in the catalog (e.g., invalid subject and name access points, extraneous fields ). 18 They recommended that consortia and libraries work together to improve the quality of vendor records and that negotiations for purchasing sets of e-resources include a discussion of record specifications.…”

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Consortial Cataloging Guidelines for Electronic Resources: I-Share Survey and Recommendations

Martin

Dzierba

Fields

et al. 2011

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

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Electronic resources have been a growing portion of library collections. , Concurrent with their growth in numbers has been the need for libraries to manage their access, including through the library catalog. Libraries have addressed the need to represent e-resources in their catalogs by modifying and transforming cataloging rules originally designed to handle physical items, and by developing new workflows and guidelines. Since 2000, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) and its predecessor, the Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO), have created three working groups to address cataloging practice and catalog access to e-resources for member libraries participating in the shared union catalog (currently the I-Share union catalog). The third of these, the Cataloging Electronic Resources/Electronic Resources Display in the OPAC Task Force (2009) (hereafter 2009 Task Force), was to build upon and update work done by the previous iterations of the Task Force and update recommendations created in 2004. The 2009 Task Force, of which the authors of this paper were members, was given the following charge:  Document needed changes to the 2004 Report and provide additional recommendations as appropriate.  Identify current best practices and additional issues related to the cataloging of, access to, and display of electronic resources in I-Share's consortial environment.  Identify related issues concerning access to electronic resources that are outside of this charge and make recommendations to the I-Share User's Group for additional action. 1 In 2003 the second Task Force surveyed library consortia from around the United States as they determined how to revise the existing recommendations. 2 Rather than perform another national survey, Consortial Cataloging Guidelines for E-Resources 2 the 2009 Task Force chose to focus its efforts in a more inward direction and designed a survey to collect information about how I-Share members handle e-resources cataloging issues, their awareness of and compliance with the existing consortial recommendations, and challenges faced in e-resources cataloging practices. These 2010 survey results provide a snapshot of a group of libraries' cataloging practices. The survey, which covers all types of e-resources, and the recommendations that were developed from it, provides a rarely found example of an attempt to identify and to address major issues surrounding e-resources cataloging, regardless of format or record source. Libraries participating in the survey cover a wide variety of academic libraries, including libraries at large research institutions, small private liberal arts schools, community colleges, and libraries at specialized research institutions. This paper reports on the results of that survey and the recommendations developed by the 2009 Task Force. It will be of interest to other libraries and consortia considering their own cataloging practices in this environment of continued growth in electronic access and new methods of ...

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“…Banerjee reported on Oregon State University's experiences batchloading records for two major microforms sets into their online catalog. 6 He stressed the need to analyze record quality before loading and suggested limited criteria for record review and analysis.…”

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Using Batchloading to Improve Access to Electronic and Microform Collections

Mugridge¹,

Edmunds²

2009

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Taking Advantage of Outsourcing Options: Using Purchased Record Sets to Maximize Cataloging Effectiveness

Cited by 11 publications

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Swimming with the Fiches: Reviving the International Aerospace Abstracts Collection to Make It Discoverable and Accessible to Researchers

Swimming with the Fiches: Reviving the International Aerospace Abstracts Collection to Make It Discoverable and Accessible to Researchers

Consortial Cataloging Guidelines for Electronic Resources: I-Share Survey and Recommendations

Using Batchloading to Improve Access to Electronic and Microform Collections

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