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publish! with ALCTS Recent ALCTS Monographs
*http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/monographs*
<http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/monographs>
For those of you who are curious about what sort of work ALCTS authors
produce, check out the following recent titles from ALCTS Publishing:
*The Critical Component: Standards in the Information Exchange Environment*,
edited by Todd A. Carpenter NISO Executive Director.
312 pages
Year Published: 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8389-8744-5
The ongoing educational, research, and entertainment missions of libraries
and other cultural organizations rely on standards that underlie
interoperability and data exchange, unique identifiers and authority
control, ontologies, barcodes, patron management, resource sharing,
discovery, web-based services, software, digital collections, preservation,
metadata management, bibliographic control, and resource layout. Greater
understanding of and appreciation for these information standards that
permeate our work and our institutions will only help us and our
institutions. See Jean Weihs’s review in the September/October 2016 issue
(36, no. 5) of *Technicalities*.
*Shared Collections: Collaborative Stewardship*, edited by Dawn Hale, Head
of Technical Services at the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University.
224 pages
Year Published: 2016
ISBN-13: 978-0-8389-1403-8
Libraries and the organizations that provide services to them are devoting
more attention to system-wide organization of collections—whether the
"system" is a consortium, a region or a country. As a strategy for saving
space and money while expanding access to additional materials and
resources, the value of shared collections is indubitable. This collected
volume from the Association of Library Collections & Technical Services
(ALCTS) spotlights the histories and experiences of several collaborations
at academic libraries. Contributors share winning strategies for
intentional decision-making in developing and managing shared collections,
both print and digital, with expert guidance. With practical advice on
issues such as governance and business models, demand driven acquisition,
rare works, and access, this monograph is a valuable resource for academic
library directors, administrators, and collection development leaders.
*Linked Data for Cultural Heritage*, edited by Ed Jones, Associate Director
for Library Assessment and Technical Services at National University in San
Diego, and Michele Seikel, professor on the library faculty for Oklahoma
State University.
152 pages
Year Published: 2016
ISBN-13: 978-0-8389-1439-7
With its roots in computer science, linked data is unfamiliar territory for
many library catalogers. But since the origins of MARC nearly 50 years ago,
the value of machine-readable library records has only grown. Today linked
data is essential for sharing library collections on the open web,
especially the digital cultural heritage in the collections of libraries,
archives, and museums. In this book, the Association of Library Collections
and Technical Services (ALCTS) gathers a stellar list of contributors to
help readers understand linked data concepts by examining practice and
projects based in familiar concepts like authority control. Topped by an
insider’s perspective on OCLC’s experiments with Schema.org and the Library
of Congress’s BIBFRAME project, Linked Data for Cultural Heritage will be a
key resource for catalogers and those in the metadata community.
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