Steve Shadle

FRBR and Serials: An Overview and Analysis

ABSTRACT This article provides an overview of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) with an emphasis on issues of interest to serialists. The basics of the Entity-Relationship (E-R) model are used to introduce the aspects of FRBR which can be used to model serial publications. Special attention is paid to the attributes and relationships of the article (the individual contribution in a periodical) and the articles relationship to its “aggregated” work (the issue and the journal). This article includes a short discussion of the serial “work” and of outstanding issues in the application of FRBR to serial works.

Identification of electronic journals in the online catalog

Abstract Form subdivision may be defined as the extension of a subject heading based on the form or arrangement of the subject matter in the book. In other words, it repre sents what the book is, rather than what it is about, the subject matter being expressed by the main heading. 1

Electronic Resources in a Next-Generation Catalog: The Case of WorldCat Local

In April 2007, the University of Washington Libraries debuted WorldCat Local (WCL), a localized version of the WorldCat database that interoperates with a librarys integrated library system and fulfillment services to provide a single-search interface for a librarys physical and electronic content. This brief will describe how WCL incorporates a librarys existing e-resource access methods into its interface and also discusses additional e-resource access services that are not typically found in the library catalog.

Wrangling Cats: A Case Study of a Library Consortium Migration

The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a consortium of thirty-seven public and private academic institutions in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. In January 2012, the Alliance began a two-year process of migrating all thirty-seven institutions to a single, shared integrated library system. The speaker describes the migration from the perspective of a large academic library that was in the first of four migration cohorts. Topics covered include the motivations for migrating to Alma/Primo as a consortium, the implementation process, key post-migration wins, lessons learned, and migration tips and tricks.

The Future of Serials Cataloging, CONSER and the ISSN: Conversations from the Field

What does the future hold for the shape of serials to come and for cataloging these and other continuing resources? How should cataloging change to cope with still-unknown types of continuing resources? Will there still be a need for cataloging? For CONSER? For ISSN? How can libraries position themselves to partner with nonlibrary metadata creators in a future linked data environment? Four serials experts discuss these and other questions in a free-ranging conversation about the future of serials cataloging.

Final Report of the Task Force on Cost/Value Assessment of Bibliographic Control

The Task Force on Cost/Value Assessment of Bibliographic Control was charged with identifying measures of the cost, benefit, and value of bibliographic control for key stakeholder communities, and developing a plan for implementing these measures. The objective of this work was not to develop a complete model of costs and value for bibliographic data, but to begin to identify sound measures that can inform decisions by those engaged in the creation, exchange, and use of bibliographic data. Given the lack of research in this area and our desire to move forward discussions about quantifying the value of bibliographic control in an environment where the vocabulary for doing so does not yet exist, the Task Force on Cost/Value Assessment of Bibliographic Control proposes seven operational definitions of value and offers suggestions for research in these areas. The seven operational definitions of value are: (1) Discovery success; (2) Use; (3) Display understanding; (4) Ability of our data to operate on the open web and interoperate with vendors/ suppliers in the bibliographic supply chain; (5) Ability to support the FRBR user tasks; (6) Throughput/Timeliness; (7) Ability to support the librarys administrative/management goals.

Advanced Serials Cataloging Workshop

ABSTRACT This pre-conference covered all 10 sessions of the Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program Advanced Serials Cataloging Workshop. The workshop gave an overview of the bibliographic description of serials and explored the most common problems encountered in the cataloging of serials, focusing on print. Steve Shadle helped workshop attendees develop catalogers judgment for decisions that need to be made in the cataloging of challenging serials, including when to treat a resource as a serial as opposed to a monograph or integrating resource. He discussed the title, numbering and publishing statement, main entry, and uniform titles for serials, pointing out the differences from monograph cataloging. He then discussed the more complicated elements of serials cataloging, such as notes, series, title changes, and linking fields, including those used for former and later title, translations, editions, supplements, and other related works.

FRBR in the real world

ABSTRACT A brief refresher of the main aspects of the FRBR model, a review of various uses of FRBR, and a discussion of how the group 1 entity types apply in a serials context. We focus on levels (work/expression/ manifestation/item and whole/part), the number of entities in particular situations, and terminology. Examples of real-world serials are used to illustrate how the FRBR resource model applies to serials.