ALA 2007: ALCTS/CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group Jennifer Lang 09 May 2007 17:01 UTC
[Please excuse cross-posting] The ALCTS/CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group will present the following program at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., on Saturday June 23, 2007, 1:30pm-3:30pm, Capital Hilton, Federal A: TITLE Designing Workflows that Meet Local Needs: Two Case Studies PRESENTER Jackie Shieh, Senior Associate Librarian, Data Loads & Development, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan ABSTRACT In 1994-1999, the University of Virginia created TEI-header metadata for its Electronic Text Center collection, and then converted into SIRSI MARC ASCII to load to its online system. An original cataloger and a paraprofessional were responsible for all electronic resources cataloging, including Web sites, diskettes, discs, etc. The creation of TEI header metadata was part of their overall responsibilities. University of Michigan, on the other hand, makes use of all existing MARC records by converting them to various project-based metadata formats for its digital library projects, e.g., BibClass, Dublin Core, DC for OAI-PMH, MODS, etc. A cataloger is in charge of the operation of providing MARC to non-MARC data, who is also responsible of ensuring quality for non-MARC metadata MARC for local online system. The same cataloger is the person who communicates to System Administrator of specific Perl module needs regarding record conversion. TITLE Integrating Non-MARC Metadata into the Workflow of a Traditional Technical Services Department: Perspectives from Librarians at the University of Tennessee Technical Services and Digital Access Team PRESENTERS Melanie Feltner-Reichert, Metadata Librarian and Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Hodges Library Marielle Veve, Catalog Librarian and Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Hodges Library ABSTRACT What are the challenges and rewards of integrating non-MARC metadata production into a technical services department? Melanie Feltner-Reichert and Marielle Veve will explore their recent experience of adding the creation of Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) records to the traditional duties of technical services librarians and support staff at the University of Tennessee Hodges Library. The presenters will share their local process of integration, lessons learned from the early stages of implementation, and the surprising modifications to workflow that emerged out of practice. TITLE Building Library 1.1 PRESENTERS Charley Pennell, Principal Cataloger for Metadata, Metadata and Cataloging, North Carolina State University Kristin Antelman, Associate Director for the Digital Library, North Carolina State University ABSTRACT Libraries operate within a culture that posits collaborating towards a common good, through resource sharing, cooperative development of standards, and the building of common work tools. The semantic Web, and the recent rapprochement between RDA and DCMI, have the potential to advance our contribution to the common good in ways that have never been possible before, yet there are still economic, legal, technical and cultural hurdles that are likely to conspire to keep libraries working within institutional silos. This talk will look at how the NCSU Libraries is trying to work toward a more open catalog platform by creating a web services layer to support features such as RSS and by integrating structured data from outside of the ILS, starting with classification and geographical hierarchies, and potentially extending to chronological hierarchies, FRBR "work-level" records, and academic discipline-related vocabularies. These efforts point to the need for access to additional data that is outside the local machine environment. We look at some of these data sources and assess the obstacles that will have to be overcome before library catalogs, and librarians, will be able to fully join the broader Web 2.0 discovery environment. --- Jennifer Lang, MSLS Electronic Resources Cataloger Princeton University Library One Washington Road Princeton NJ 08544-2098 609.258.5476 AIM: jenniferwlang