"Electronic Serials: Getting Them and Keeping Them" : April 24, 2009

From: Rocki Strader <strader.2_at_nyob>
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"Electronic Serials: Getting Them and Keeping Them"

TEDSIG Spring Meeting
Friday, April 24, 2009
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
The Conference Center at OCLC, 6600 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH 43017

The Technical, Electronic and Digital Services 
Interest Group (TEDSIG) of the Academic Library 
Association of Ohio (ALAO) will hold its annual 
Spring Workshop on April 24, 2009, 9:30 am - 4:00 
pm.  Our theme is "Electronic Serials: Getting 
Them and Keeping Them."  The event will be held at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio.

Our featured speaker will be Regina Romano 
Reynolds, ISSN Coordinator, Library of Congress.

We will also convene a panel of Ohio academic 
librarians who deal with e-serials issues:

Susan Banoun, Cataloging Unit, Head, in the 
Serials and Electronic Resource Dept, University of Cincinnati
Barbara Dunham, Electronic Resources Librarian, The Ohio State University
Deberah England, Electronic Resources Librarian, Wright State University
Yuezeng Shen, Head of Cataloging, Cleveland State University.

The workshop will close with a 
question-and-answer session with our panelists 
and Ms. Reynolds. The workshop is cosponsored by 
the NASIG Continuing Education Committee.

Please see presenters’ bios and  program details below the registration form.

A buffet lunch will be provided.

For driving directions to OCLC see: 
<http://www.oclc.org/conferencecenter/brochures/default.htm>http://www.oclc.org/conferencecenter/brochures/default.htm
Questions?  Email: 
<file:///strader.2_at_osu.edu>strader.2_at_osu.edu   Phone: 614-688-8091

To register, complete the form below and mail form with payment as directed.

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TEDSIG Spring Meeting - 2009 Registration Form
Electronic Serials: Getting Them and Keeping Them
Please complete this form and return it with your 
payment to the address below before April 13, 2009.

Rocki Strader
TEDSIG Co-Chair
Cataloging Dept.
The Ohio State University Libraries
610 Ackerman Rd., Rm 5769
Columbus, OH  43202

Registration fee includes parking and buffet lunch.

$35.00            Nonmember rate
$25.00            ALAO or NASIG member
$25.00            Library school students, retirees

Make checks payable to: Academic Library Association of Ohio

Name ________________________________________________________________
Institution or Library School ______________________________________________
Address ______________________________________________________________
Phone ___________________________________
E-mail ___________________________________
Amount enclosed _$________________________

This program is sponsored by ALAO's Technical, 
Electronic, and Digital Services Interest Group 
with generous co-sponsorship from the North American Serials Interest Group.

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SPEAKERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Regina Romano Reynolds

Regina Romano Reynolds is ISSN Coordinator at the 
Library of Congress and former head of the 
National Serials Data Program, now called the 
U.S. ISSN Center.  She has been trying to tame 
various e-serials beasts since the late 1980’s 
when they first began to seek ISSN.  She 
co-chairs an internal LC group coordinating the 
development of projects related to the 
recommendations of LC’s Working Group on the 
Future of Bibliographic Control and is a member 
of the U.S. National Libraries RDA Test Steering 
Committee. Reynolds was the 1999 recipient of the 
Bowker/Ulrich=s Serials Librarian Award and 2004 
winner of the NASIG’s Marcia Tuttle International 
Grant. Reynolds has an A.M.L.S. (Beta Phi Mu) from the University of Michigan.

Taming the E-Serials Beast:  Challenges and Solutions

Serials have been crucial in the chain of 
scholarly communication since at least 1665 when 
the first scholarly journals were 
published.  And, for all of that time they have 
been presenting challenges as well: their title 
changes, numbering peculiarities, mergers, 
splits, supplements, translations, serials within 
series within serials, and other beastly 
behaviors have caused serialists to take refuge 
in organizations like CONSER and NASIG where they 
at least can share the misery--and the mystique!

These challenges pale in comparison to the 
emergence in the 1980’s of online serials­really 
scary beasts the likes of which had never been 
seen before. This presentation will briefly 
review the development of e-serials and how some 
of the early challenges were met. The main focus 
will be on several of the most pressing 
challenges that e-serials present in the area of 
bibliographic control, together with existing or 
emerging solutions. Many of the solutions are 
based on librarians interacting with others in 
the serials supply chain--especially publishers 
and aggregators--to help tame this new beast.

Topics to be covered:
Past challenges: a brief review of the 
development of e-serials and how early challenges were met.

Current challenges: including the presentation of 
bibliographic information on 
e-serials:  development of a possible NISO best 
practice; the problems caused by earlier titles 
being listed in aggregations under the current 
title: development of a possible NISO best 
practice; “multiple versions” (issues such as how 
many records? single vs. multiple records; 
Linking ISSN; xISSN; will FRBR help?). Also: 
KBART and OpenURL; and transfer of serials and 
aggregations from one publisher to another (Project Transfer).

Future challenges: the presentation will conclude 
with some personal reflections on the future of 
serials and their bibliographic control.


Susan Merrill Banoun

Susan is the Cataloging Unit Head for the Serials 
and Electronic Resources Department at the 
University of Cincinnati (since 2005). She is 
responsible for cataloging serials in all 
formats, cataloging and managing electronic 
resources including record loads.  Previously she 
worked as a cataloger at the Health Sciences 
Library at UC, and at the Campbell County 
(Kentucky) Public Library, doing cataloging, 
selection, acquisitions, and even some reference 
desk duties. Susan graduated from The Ohio State 
University with a BS in Education, and she has a 
MSLS from the University of Kentucky.

Catch a Tiger by its Tail?: The Challenges of Cataloging Electronic Resources
What to catalog, when to catalog, and how to 
catalog electronic resources? The traditional 
methods of acquiring and cataloging print 
materials, and the tools we use, the what, when, 
how? for description and access have always been 
fairly straight forward. Electronic resources are 
a whole different animal and do not neatly fit in 
with the traditional processes, tools, systems 
and methods for cataloging. From using full MARC 
21 records in the library catalog, to using 
vendor MARC records, alone or with coverage loads 
and an ERM system, description and access is 
changing drastically. Some of the challenges and 
opportunities we are managing at the University 
of Cincinnati will be shared with a focus on 
trying to make good choices that will best 
benefit users in finding information.

Barbara S. Dunham

Barbara Dunham is the Serials & Electronic 
Resources Librarian at The Ohio State 
University.  She is responsible for the 
acquisition of print and electronic continuations 
as well as the management, licensing, and access 
of electronic resources.  Prior to becoming the 
Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian, she 
held positions as Catalog Coordinator for Western 
Languages and Serials Cataloger at Ohio State. 
She is an active member of the American Society 
for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) and 
is currently Past-Chair of the Central Ohio 
Chapter of ASIS&T.  Barbara holds an M.L.I.S. 
from Kent State University and an M.A.T. from Indiana University in Biology.

E-Serials Are Like Herding Cats
Since the advent of the electronic serials, the 
management and access of them soon became a 
common topic.  While processes have evolved to 
help with these issues, the management and access 
of them still remain as challenges.  The Ohio 
State University Libraries face these issues 
daily just as other institutions do.  This 
presentation discusses some of the challenges 
faced by the Libraries and ways of handling them.

Deberah England

Deberah England is the Electronic Resources 
Librarian at Wright State University.  In this 
position, she is responsible for acquiring, 
licensing, troubleshooting, and managing over 
85,000 e-resources.  With over fifteen years 
experience working with serials and e-resources, 
Deberah has published, lectured at university 
classes, and presented on the topics of serials 
and e-resources at national and regional conferences and workshops.

Welcome to the jungle: e-beasts and the quest to cage them
PAMS, knowledge bases and third-party hosts are 
just a few of the e-beasts in the e-resources 
supply chain jungle.  Meet the rest of the beasts 
and learn about some “big-game” initiatives to manage them.

Yuezeng Shen

Yuezeng Shen is Head of Cataloging, Cleveland 
State University. She previously worked as 
Catalog Librarian/Authority Control at Colonial 
Williamsburg Foundation Library and as Librarian 
at NASA Lewis Research Center Library. She received her MLS from SUNY-Albany.

Electronic Serials: Collaborative Management Across Departments
Cleveland State University Library does not have 
a dedicated position for electronic resources 
management. Rather, librarians, staff and student 
assistants from Acquisition, Cataloging, and 
Automation engage in the collaborative 
development of e-serials management, using a 
traditional ILS with separate access to 
electronic journal articles, archival 
collections, image collections, etc. E-resources 
management impacts the work in different units in 
the library. Our responsibilities in library 
services in general are changing because of 
technological advancements. Our usage statistics 
indicate that our current model is effective even 
with its limitations, such as inconvenience with 
multi searching engines for library patrons, 
manual usage statistics, etc. This talk will 
discuss how we set up licenses for electronic 
materials and how we provide and maintain the access to these materials.



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Rocki Strader
Assistant Professor & Catalog Librarian
The Ohio State University Libraries     Phone: 614-688-8091
610 Ackerman Rd., Rm. 5769              Fax: 614-292-2015
Columbus, OH 43202              Email: strader.2_at_osu.edu
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