At my library we developed a written policy years ago, but it seems like
the free electronic resources have outgrown it in numbers and
complexity.
The different categories of free resources each seem to warrant
different approaches. We are a regional depository of UF federal
documents. Many of these as well as documents from state, local and
international agencies now appear electronically. Catalog records for
the federal documents are loaded along with the records we purchase for
print documents. Many of the printed documents from international
agencies that we receive are also available electronically and we
frequently include links in our records for those. The water management
districts for our state issue many technical reports that we collect in
print and on CD-ROM and we include links to electronic versions in our
records. We now purchase and load catalog records for electronic serials
from Serials Solutions, and these include open access journals as well
as the ones to which we subscribe. Collection management librarians
identify particular free databases and other online resources that are
significant for their areas and request cataloging for them. The PBS
Frontline and Nature series available on streaming video were selected
in this way and one of our catalogers has been keeping up with them
pretty well. Our libraries' digitization projects are another large
group of material that is currently in transition so that some now
appears in our catalog but should all soon be available there. We create
PURLs for the in-state and locally digitized materials. We have run
link-checkers to identify URL's that need changing and then either
change or withdraw them, and this is not an overwhelming task if it is
done periodically, (the first time was a bear).
These groups of materials are selected among the vastness of the stuff
on the Internet as useful for our patrons, and in no way reflect any
intention to manage it all. If anyone is really interested, please email
me off-list and I can send you the policy I helped draft a few years
ago.
Thanks and have a great day,
Jimmie
Jimmie Lundgren
Science & Social Science Cataloging Unit Head
Cataloging & Metadata Dept.
Smathers Library
PO Box 117007
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7007
352-273-2725
352-392-7365 (fax)
jimlund_at_uflib.ufl.edu
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ranti Junus
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 12:18 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [NGC4LIB] Cataloging Web Resources - policies
[Sent to NGC4LIB and Web4Lib. Apologies for duplication.]
Hello All,
Michigan State University Libraries intends to place more links to
Web-based content of all kinds in our OPAC (besides the ones we
officially subscribe to.) In order to guide the implementation of this
decision, we need to create policies and consensus on how to proceed.
Does your library have any policies regarding the selection and
cataloging of web resources (web sites, pdf reports, etc.) that you
would be willing to share? I'd be more than happy to compile the list
of responses for you, if you would like to have it as well.
Thank you in advance.
ranti.
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Ranti Junus, Systems Librarian/Electronic Resources
Web Services
100 Main Library W441
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Received on Tue Jul 29 2008 - 13:30:51 EDT