Please consider joining us for five presentations on vendor provided MARC
records for titles acquired via Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA) or Data/
Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) programs and the impact of these records
on the catalog.
Date: Saturday, June 23
Time: 1:30-3:30
Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Royal Ballroom E
Speakers and presentations:
*Sadie Williams, Vice President, Business Development, Ebook Library (EBL)*
*Tom Larsen, Head of Monographic Cataloging, Portland State University
Library*
*“Building and Evaluating a Collaborative Consortial Demand-Driven
Cataloging Workflow”*
In January 2011, the 36-member Orbis Cascade Alliance, in partnership with
EBL and YBP Library Services, announced a pioneering new collaboration in
consortial e-book acquisitions. This presentation will discuss the
cataloging workflow to support that program, the decisions and
collaborative effort across member institutions and vendors to develop the
workflow, and discuss the successes, issues, and lessons learned along the
way. During the course of the planning period and the first year of the
pilot, changes to the workflow were made as various difficulties were
encountered. We will look at the role of vendors in the creation of the
cataloging records. We will discuss the importance of the maintenance of
DDA cataloging records as they affect DDA expenditure and usage –
especially as pertaining to managing the budget, and provide a case study
and examples for planning long-term maintenance of a DDA program as it
relates to the catalog.
*Mary Gilbertson, Cataloging and Acquisitions, Head of Monographs,
University of Arkansas Libraries*
The University of Arkansas Libraries began providing access to DDA records
in December of 2011, using the criteria from a past Yankee Book Peddler
approval plan. The ebook vendor is ebrary. The approval plan criteria
filter the records, and a load table adds various fields to the cataloging
records upon load. As a trial, only those records that match the approval
criteria are being loaded, but there is a function available so that other
titles can be loaded.
*Roman Panchyshyn, Catalog Librarian, Kent State University Libraries*
*“At the Table: Developing a Cataloging Workflow for a Successful
Demand-Driven Acquisitions Project”*
In fall 2011, Kent State University Libraries (KSUL) began negotiations
with Yankee Book Peddler to implement a DDA pilot for selected subjects.
From the beginning of the contract process, cataloging staff were present
at the table, providing their input on MARC record preparation and
specifications, record delivery, and workflow processes. The pilot was
implemented in early January 2012. KSUL is currently evaluating the pilot
and contemplating plans to implement DDA on a full-time basis. This
presentation will cover the role cataloging staff played in developing and
implementing a successful DDA pilot project. It will discuss how the
bibliographic records are loaded, overlaid, and maintained. It will also
point out any problems or issues that were discovered while working with
these sets of records, and how they were addressed.
*Elyssa M. Sanner, Metadata & Cataloging Services Librarian, Northern
Michigan University*
*“Patron-Driven E-book Acquisitions at NMU: Worth the Effort?”*
Northern Michigan University’s Olson Library recently implemented a PDA
program through the vendor YBP/EBL. During this presentation, attendees
will learn what to expect when implementing a PDA program as well as
practical solutions for managing imprecise data. As a part of this PDA
program, “enhanced” discovery records (defined as MARC records that include
basic descriptive fields, as well as table of contents for improved
discovery in the library catalog) were purchased. The program began with
the receipt of a large retroactive load of e-book records, totaling
approximately 15,000 records. An initial analysis revealed several problems
with the records. Through trial-and-error, NMU has found solutions that
simultaneously maintain the integrity of the catalog and manage resources
by editing the elements that pose the greatest barriers to patron
discovery.
*Wen-ying Lu, Continuing Resources Catalog Librarian, University of
Colorado Boulder*
*Mary Beth Chambers, Catalog Metadata Librarian, University of Colorado
Colorado Springs*
*“PDA Consortium Style: The CU MyiLibrary Cataloging Experience”*
The University of Colorado Boulder Libraries implemented a PDA program
through MyiLibrary in 2010. In December 2011, Boulder's MyiLibrary program
expanded to include all campuses within the University of Colorado System,
launching a collaborative pilot project for shared purchasing and shared
cataloging of e-books among five separate CU libraries. This presentation
covers the workflow used to share MARC records among those libraries, both
before and after titles are purchased. The presenters will discuss factors
affecting editing and customization of the records, including quality of
records, local needs, and best practices for Prospector, a regional unified
catalog. They will also share their strategies for detecting and resolving
errors that may occur and for handling PDA "discovery" records for titles
duplicated in other e-book packages available at the respective libraries.
For more information, contact Connie McGuire, Chair of the Catalog
Management Interest Group, at cmcguire_at_umich.edu.
Received on Wed Jun 06 2012 - 12:05:45 EDT