2011 OVGTSL Annual Conference
Recent Submissions
Item Cataloging Remote Access Multimedia: An Open Access Virtual Guide
(2012-05-18) Veve, Marielle; University of Tennessee LibrariesThe following lightning talk session introduces a freely accessible, peer-reviewed guide that effectively explains how to catalog remote access multimedia, including podcasts, streaming video, streaming audio, e-books, and web games. Created by Marielle Veve, University of Tennessee lecturer at the School of Information Sciences, this scholarly guide utilizes an innovative pedagogical approach that integrates streaming animated slides into distance education of cataloging. http://www.lib.utk.edu/~veve/streaming-guides.htmlItem To Establish or Not to Establish? The Question of Establishing Name Authority Records for Theses and Dissertation Authors
(2012-05-18) McGurr, Melanie; Ohio State University LibrariesRecent vigorous discussion on the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) listserv raised a number of questions on the ethics of establishing theses and dissertation authors using birth dates and other information found on author's work (such as the vita or other personal data). This presentation will use that question as a starting point to investigate the reasoning behind establishing these authors, how they should be established, why theses and dissertation authors should be treated any differently than other authors, and how OCLC's increased addition of articles into their database complicate matters. In addition, the further challenge that RDA adoption might cause will be presented and discussed. Questions and discussion are welcome, and participants do not need to be NACO participants to join and contribute to the dialogue.Item Tailoring Technical Services Data to Fit the Changing Needs of Academic Liaisons
(2012-05-11) Martin, Heath; Tussing, Ashley; University of Kentucky LibrariesIncreasingly dynamic collections, changing curriculums, and tightening budgets work together to put more and more pressure on liaisons to stay well-informed and respond nimbly when confronting collection management decisions and opportunities. In many cases, data potentially useful to liaisons already exists within technical services units as a product of other library activities and functions. When approached from a collection management perspective, this data can often be repurposed to meet the information needs of academic liaisons and other collection managers as they attempt to meet the demands of evolving liaison roles and changing collection priorities. The presenters will discuss their efforts at the University of Kentucky Libraries to develop enhanced reporting instruments and procedures intended to employ technical services data to the greater benefit of academic liaisons.Item Incorporating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Projects in Technical Services: an Examination of Possibilities and Potential Pitfalls
(2012-05-11) Wisneski, Richard; Chen, Suzhen; Church, Stephanie; Case Western Reserve UniversityThis presentation will showcase work being done at an academic library to encode a collection of manuscripts on Cleveland and the Western Reserve in XML format following TEI guidelines, and address the objectives of and rationale for this endeavor. "The Manuscripts Relating to the Early History of the Western Reserve, 1795-1869" collection consists of over 200 manuscripts, and includes correspondences, journals, business records, government documents, and land surveys. This collection, housed at the Western Reserve Historical Society, is being transcribed and encoded by technical services staff. Such work is sometimes labor-intensive and timeconsuming. The project also raises a number of issues, including: Why perform text encoding at all? Should such work be left to scholars in the Digital Humanities instead? How can librarians and digital humanists collaborate? And how practical is it for technical services units to undertake such work? We will address these issues.Item This Relationship Isn’t Working … But Hopefully We Can Still Be Friends: How to Choose and Move to a New Vendor
(2012-05-11) Kunkler, Jenny; Baril, Kathleen; Ohio Northern UniversityWith all of our daily tasks and special projects, assessing a vendor’s performance is probably the last item on a library’s priority list. But with rapid technology growth and the budgetary difficulties that libraries have faced in recent years, this overlooked task is becoming more imperative. Last spring at our institution, it became apparent that we needed to work with a larger serials subscription agency, and we began researching our options. In this presentation, we will discuss vendor areas to evaluate including interface, costs and service. We will also cover the vendor migration’s additional benefits including the improvement of our workflow and the opportunity it provided for us to evaluate our serials collection in terms of usage, format, scope and cost.Item Is There Value in Value Added Cataloging?
(2012-05-11) Chercourt, Mina; Marshall, Lauren; John Carroll UniversityAs with most libraries, the Grasselli Library holdings include many items with zero or very few circulations. In particular, we were facing decisions about whether to withdraw numerous items contained in monographic series. In contemplating ways to increase the visibility of these items, we decided to test two methods of enhancing the catalog records of these items with a goal of increasing circulation. The first method was to re-catalog monographic series previously cataloged under the series title, in which individual volumes had unique titles. We added access points for the unique titles, retaining a link to the bibliographic record for the series title as well. As a pilot for this method, we chose to limit the process to the Q’s, as there were a large number of instances of this situation in that area. The second method was to enhance the records by adding table of contents fields. For this method, we chose the P’s as a pilot area, due to the large numbers of items containing individual works for which our patrons might be searching (i.e. plays, stories, etc.). We plan on evaluating the circulation statistics of these items 12 to 18 months after enhancement to determine whether these practices are worth implementing more broadly.Item Sharing Knowledge: Using the Wiki Tool to Instruct and Inform
(2012-05-11) Dekydtspotter, Lori; Lilly Library, Indiana UniversityThis presentation will discuss how wiki can be used as an interactive teaching tool and will also briefly highlight how the wiki page can be used as a dynamic staff training resource, allowing technical services staff to create an interactive archive of job-related information, strategies, and helpful links.Item Validating Online Serial Holdings with Help from a Worldcat API
(2012-05-11) van Mil, James; University of Cincinnati LibrariesMaintaining knowledgebase holdings for individual journal subscriptions can be difficult, especially when publishers do not appropriately present title relationships, but a script-assisted workflow can validate holdings data and address title change problems, allowing for automated updating or checking of journal holdings. By making calls to the Worldcat xISSN API, a script can validate title relationships in journals holdings data downloaded from publishers. This validation, in turn, allows an automatic comparison of publisher holdings data and knowledgebase holdings data to identify problems or to make automatic updates, as appropriate. This presentation will explore the successes and challenges in applying both publisher holdings data validation and the subsequent knowledgebase holdings comparison.Item Adding “Free E-Books”: Providing User Access to Public Domain Hathi Trust Resources in the KentLINK and OhioLINK Catalogs
(2012-05-11) Panchyshyn, Roman S.; Kent State UniversityAt the request of the OhioLINK Database Management and Standards (DMS) committee, Kent State University Libraries began investigating the possibility and feasibility of loading bibliographic records for public domain digital materials held by the Hathi Trust into KentLINK and the OhioLINK central catalogs. This investigation led to the Hathi Trust project where, in 2010, Kent State successfully obtained and loaded over 470,000 bibliographic records for Hathi Trust digital resources into both catalogs. The records were available at no cost, but an investment was made in both time and resources to improve the quality of the records. This made the Hathi Trust resources more discoverable for our patrons. This presentation will cover, in detail, the issues and problems that needed to be addressed and resolved for this project. Libraries working with or managing large files of bibliographic records for e-resources may benefit from Kent State’s experience.Item Automated Metadata Generation and the Critical Role of Catalogers and Indexers in Technical Services of the Future
(2012-05-11) Bedford, Denise; Kent State UniversityAcademic and research libraries have an important role in collecting, organizing, and facilitating access to the world’s scholarly information. Technical services librarians build the foundation upon which scholarly information is managed. In the past 50 years, we have seen an increase in production of scholarly information, more complex production models and workflows, increasingly complex formats, and greater expectations from users for granularity of access. Scholars and library users can now organize their own information in a way that makes sense to them – we have a proliferation of organizing structures and indexing methods. The good news is that this places technical services librarians in a pivotal role in the knowledge economy. The challenge is that we have to rethink how we practice our craft. Future technical services librarians will become knowledge engineers, designing knowledge architecture solutions and new and dynamic ways of organizing information. This presentation will describe automated classification, indexing and summarization tools available on today’s market, and how technical services librarians will leverage these technologies in these new roles.Item "I'm Prepared for IP Rights Governance": Creative Commons Licensing, Media Assets Management, and the Role of Technical Services as IP Rights Administrator
(2012-05-11) Adamich, Tom; Visiting Librarian Service (VLS)Intellectual Property Rights Governance (IPRG) is fast becoming an important part of both education and enterprise-based activities (i.e. multimedia-based student portfolios, library learning commons, media assets development/production/management). Creative Commons (CC) is a nonprofit corporation which provides free licenses and legal tools to allow a creator of a media asset to “mark [the media asset] with the freedom the [media asset] creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.” (Creative Commons - About, 2010). This session will discuss IPRG and Creative Commons licensing as it is currently being used (or has the potential to be used) to manage media assets primarily in K-20 educational settings which serve students ages 6 and above – with an emphasis on how K-12 school and higher education-based libraries serving students of these ages have the unique opportunity to serve as the school’s IPRG/CC policy and information center.Item DIY E-Resources: Break Out and Build Your Own
(2012-05-11) Evans, Gwen; Tilton, Kellie; Bowling Green State UniversityThe options for libraries to create databases and access points far beyond the traditional ILS have expanded exponentially in the last few years. Library technical services departments can use their expertise to create their own e-resources that fit the needs of their constituent groups, whether in an academic environment, public library, or special library. Creating an eresource with simple, free platforms and tools is within the reach of any library without requiring advanced IT support. Learn how to create do-it-yourself e-resources using Wordpress and Omeka that can supplement the traditional catalog, house a variety of formats, and allow a flexible, user-centered approach to discovery and display of resources. Google Docs and Google Refine will be demonstrated as additional tools to streamline the creation and management of metadata.Item OVGTSL 2011 Newsletter
(2012-04-27) Bazeley, Jennifer; Tzoc, EliasItem OVGTSL 2011 Conference Program
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