Judith A. Wolfe

Library Personnel’s Role in the Creation of Metadata: A Survey of Academic Libraries

ABSTRACT The digital age has caused the paradigm to shift in academic libraries both in terms of their collections and the roles of their personnel. As academic libraries begin to digitize objects in their collections, how and who in the library creates access to these resources has become a hot issue. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries (UNL Libraries), taskforces were formed to study metadata schemes used at UNL Libraries. The taskforces identified the various metadata schemes in use and the role of various departments within UNL Libraries in the creation of metadata. They made recommendations about how to document decisions relating to metadata and how to coordinate metadata creation and digitization projects. As a result, the authors decided to survey American Research Libraries (ARL) and other peer libraries to determine their metadata workflow. This paper discusses the results of the survey and provides insight as to how libraries may meet the challenge of creating metadata through the reorganization of departments and staffing responsibilities.

Connecting Print and Electronic Titles: An Integrated Approach at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Libraries make heavy investments in electronic resources, with many of these resources reflecting title changes, bundled subsets, or content changes of formerly print material. These changes can distance the electronic format from its print origins, creating discovery and access issues. A task force was formed to explore the enhancement of catalog records to increase the connections between print and electronic titles, thus improving patron discovery and access to electronic resources. The investigation considered the relationships between parent and dependent titles, title changes, and publication subsets. The resulting recommendations included interdepartmental cooperation, record-display best practices, and methods for tracking catalog-record enhancements.

Usage Statistics of E-Serials: Ed. by David C. Fowler. Binghamton: Haworth Information Press, 2007. 297 pp. price not reported soft cover ISBN 9780789029881 (also published as The Serials Librarian 53, supplement 9)

(but not under a single heading) and linked across multiple institutional and vernacular authority files. The third and sixth chapters of Part IV can only be described as “miscellaneous.” The third chapter is an opinion piece that compares and contrasts cataloging against descriptive and enumerative bibliography, abstracting and indexing, and metadata. The last chapter is also completely different from everything else in this volume. It is a case study of managing a cataloging department. Although this chapter seems inconsistent with the rest of the volume, the collection would be incomplete without it, as the festschrift is meant to encapsulate the various issues in cataloging, which necessarily includes the people who do it.

A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students:English and American Literature. 6th ed.

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Digital Libraries and the Challenges of Digital Humanities

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