Primary Research Group has published: Emerging Issues in Academic Library
Cataloging & Technical Services, 2019 Edition, ISBN 978-1-57440-584-2
This study profiles the cataloging and metadata efforts of five universities
in the United States: George Washington University, the University of
Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois at Springfield, the University of
Utah and Oregon State University. The study focuses on challenges posed by the
quickly changing playing field of traditional metadata and cataloging services
as new technologies, approaches and expectations impact traditional technical
services.
For each of the libraries listed, detailed interviews were conducted with one
or more major player in technical services and cataloging, exploring recent
changes and developments in managerial lines of authority and work flow
organization, technology, database maintenance, error detection, training,
linked data, and the integration of archives, special collections and
institutional digital repositories into the overall library metadata effort.
The study also looks at required skills for catalogers and how this skill set
is expected to evolve. Other important issues covered include: transitioning
to Alma, the increasingly important logistics of working within cataloging
consortia, the role of technical services and cataloging staff in electronic
information acquisition and processing, use of applications and software to
enhance university-wide communications for all players in technical services/
metadata effort, programming skills for catalogers and tools for assessment
and customer service.
A useful appendix includes personnel charts for all five libraries, specifying
lines of authority and reporting, as well as statements from each library
specifying strictures, advice and rules governing elements of acquisitions,
metadata development and cataloging.
The 70-page report was written by Anthony Morris, currently the head of
Technical Services at the Fulton Library at Utah Valley University. He earned
his Masters of Library and Information Science from Drexel University and has
over 13 years of library-related experience, including time as a librarian at
an academic library, a manager & cataloger at a library vendor.
A PDF version of the report is currently available direct from Primary
Research Group; a print version will be available for shipment on May 3, 2019.
Site licenses are also available. For a table of contents, and an excerpt
view the product page for this report on our website at
www.PrimaryResearch.com.
Received on Fri Apr 19 2019 - 14:03:44 EDT