information services cataloguing & metadata team activity & projects, 2005/06 janet wharton
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Cataloguing & Metadata TeamCataloguing & Metadata TeamActivity & Projects, 2005/06Activity & Projects, 2005/06
Janet WhartonJanet Wharton
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Current cataloguing
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Retrospective cataloguing
Britain in Print (Complete)1200 oldest items in the librarary
Agricultural rare books (Virtually complete)ca 440 records
Woodward Collection (Complete)ca 310 vols
East Midlands Collection 2873 records since Oct. 2005
Hallward Store – pre-1850 material
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Discards 2000/01-2005/06
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Standardisation of classmarks (1)
Historically, Library of Congress classification adjusted to suit the needs of each site
Such adjustments make it impossible to benefit from derived classmarks
Standardisation could help users find material more easily across the library system when the same areas are covered in several branches
Needed to facilitate shelf-ready acquisition of resources
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Standardisation of classmarks (2)
Discussion with subject team leaders
Move towards greater standardisation– Introduction of M, U, V in Hallward
New project to reclassify key problem areas, eg:– NG (local scheme) – TR (standard) Photography– TX at JCG (valid, but had absorbed material from QP, R, SB, TP,
etc – ca 1200 items)– Science, Technology, Medicine in Hallward (ca 1200 items)– Law (ca 28,000 items)
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New types of resource to catalogue
eBooks -
eJournals
Learning objects
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New tasks – RAE data validation
Research Assessment Exercise
University publications database
Standardising names of journals and publishers
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Card catalogue digitisation
Vitally needed because of move of manuscripts and special collections to KMC
Will replicate the card catalogue and allow browsing of cards
Additionally, OCR (optical character recognition) – will allow key word searching of cards
Link from UNLOC – will give greater prominence to card catalogue
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Card catalogue digitisation (2)
Preparation – weeding of thousands of cards from the catalogue to bring it up to date (Hallward & Music)
German company will scan cards (24.07-11.08.06)
Indexing of cards and creation of interface
Service ready by week before term starts
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Metadata for eResources
Connected Campus project
Loading MARC records for large sets of electronic resources which we would not be able to catalogue individually– eJournal packages– ebrary (ca 22,000 records)– ECCO (ca 140,000 records)– EEBO (94,758 records)
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Metadata for eResources (2)
Quality of records / access to resources
Use of Aleph tools and scripts to “fix” records
Indexing
Impact on the catalogue