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ALA ALCTS Cataloging Norms Interest Group
ALA Annual Conference, Chicago
Saturday, July 11, 2009, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Chicago Hilton, Continental C
Preliminaries: Announcements & Introductions (5 minutes)
Title: Beyond the OPAC: Creating Different Interfaces for Specialized
Collections in an ILS System
(20 minutes)
Presenter: Sai Deng, Metadata Catalog Librarian, Wichita State University
Libraries, Wichita Kansas.
Description:
This presentation will discuss the speaker's experiment of creating
featured websites from specialized data in Voyager ILS such as faculty
author books, leisure reading, new book lists and local Art Museum
collection. These websites can be seamlessly integrated into public
programming events and library instruction sessions to introduce local
authors, featured collections and resources in a specific area. The
websites of Faculty Research Publications and Women's Studies Video
Resources at Wichita State University will be showcased.
The speaker will also discuss the model used to create the websites:
selecting data from Oracle database, presenting SQL query results, and
creating the websites using web programming for browsing and search. The
option of transforming data from MARC to DC will also be discussed. This
model can be applied to different sets of data by slightly modifying the
query, the programming and the web appearance. Some features of public
websites such as linking each record back to OPAC, adding RSS feeds,
Syndetic and other cover images to the websites will be addressed.
Finally, the speaker will discuss disintegration of library data versus
integration of library data and the pros and cons of each method.
Title: Cataloging Art and Cultural Works in Library Collections (20
minutes)
Presenter: Elizabeth O'Keefe, Director of Collection Information Systems,
Morgan Library & Museum, New York, N.Y.
Description:
Works of art and material culture are found in almost every library
collection, in the form of portraits of founders or donors, artwork
donated for decorative purposes, or cultural objects in collections of
papers acquired by the library. There are usually too few objects to
justify the creation of a separate database; in any case, a separate
database complicates collection management and fragments access.
The best way to provide access to these objects is to document them in the
main library catalog. In doing so, librarians will find it helpful to
look beyond rules designed for cataloging textual and/or published
material, and to seek guidance from descriptive conventions developed by
other metadata communities. In particular, Cataloging Cultural Objects:
A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images (CCO) is an
invaluable source for the choice and formulation of information
appropriate for the description of art and cultural works. The presenter
will describe how the Morgan Library & Museum applies CCO as a supplement
to library data standards such as AACR, DCRM, Betz, etc. when creating
MARC records for art and cultural objects in its Voyager library system,
and how these records are repurposed as metadata for Web-accessible
digital images.
Questions/Discussion: (10 minutes)
Title: The eXtensible Catalog's Metadata Services Toolkit: Lowering the
Bar for Automated Metadata Processing (20 minutes)
Presenter: Jennifer Bowen, Director of Metadata Management, Co-Principal
Investigator, eXtensible Catalog Project, University of Rochester,
Rochester, N.Y.
Description:
Libraries are struggling with the challenges of integrating metadata from
a variety of sources: MARC catalog data; metadata from institutional
repositories, digital projects, and course management systems, into their
web discovery interfaces. Combining such disparate metadata as part of a
library workflow will require easy-to-use tools for automated processing
of metadata to correct, enrich, transform, and aggregate metadata from
these disparate sources.
The eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project is developing an open-source platform
that will enable libraries to easily accomplish these tasks. The XC
Metadata Services Toolkit (MST) enables the processing of metadata in any
XML schema using pluggable services, automatically handles updated
records, enables the scheduling of a variety of services, and makes the
updated metadata available for harvesting by other applications. The MST
offers an ideal platform for experimenting with new emerging schemas and
standards, such as RDA. This presentation will describe the MST and its
services, and the importance of this tool for libraries. It will also
include a demonstration of the latest version of the MST, which is
currently being developed.
Title: Better, Faster, Stronger: Integrating Archives Processing and
Technical Services (20 minutes)
Presenters: Betty Meagher, Head, Metadata & Materials Processing, Penrose
Library, University of Denver, Colorado and Kate Crowe, Interim Archives
Processing Librarian, Penrose Library, University of Denver, Colorado.
Description:
Archival processing and library technical services are both undergoing
radical changes in an attempt to stay relevant in an increasingly digital
world. Archives have struggled to shift their focus from cataloging at
the collection-level to deeper, more granular access to archival materials
to meet increasing user demands for digital access to individual
collection objects, while library technical services have begun to look
for new activities as processing non-unique print resources becomes less
of a focus. The archival community's issues are compounded by the fact
that both metadata standards (EAD) and content standards (DACS) are geared
toward the collection, rather than to the items in the collection.
Archival professionals have traditionally viewed each collection, and each
metadata record about each collection, as unique in and of itself. This
artisanal approach has limited the archives' ability to extend processing
to the deeper level of detail required to make digital access to
collection materials possible.
In contrast, library technical services have traditionally used
streamlined and automated workflows for processing and the aggregation of
content at the item level though subject terms as an organizing principle
of access.
In an era of shrinking budgets, reduced staffing, and the need for units
to show their value to the larger organization, this presentation will
show how one library and archives saw these challenges as an opportunity
to fully integrate archives processing into its technical services unit
and develop a hybrid form of processing that respects the traditions of
both disciplines while creating more user-focused metadata and access
tools.
Questions/Discussion: 10 minutes/Wrap Up
Adrienne Aluzzo
Metadata Librarian
727 Science & Engineering Library
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
313/577-6439
bb4892_at_wayne.edu
Received on Tue Jun 16 2009 - 08:22:20 EDT