Thank you for attending virtually the Catalog Management Interest Group meeting that was held on Friday, June 12th, at 1:00 PM CT.
Two presenters discussed techniques, developments, and problems with managing the data integrity of library catalogs and related discovery tools.
Breaking Rules and Preserving Legacies for Digital Access
Michelle Hahn, Assistant Librarian, Sound Recordings Cataloger, William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University
Faculty and students of Indiana University's school of music have been performing music for a century, and recording it for nearly 70 years. For 15 years, those recordings have been born digital, but then we digitized the rest of the approximately 30,000 recordings. Cataloging practice has changed a great deal in that time, and the practice specifically for sound exponentially so. Breaking some rules and adjusting priorities allows the legacy of a world-renowned school of music to be more discoverable and accessible to an even greater audience. I will highlight the management of a project that updates existing data and increases both the granularity and the fullness of records, improving discovery and access to that legacy in a digital form. I will also give insight to the complexity of connecting physical and digital content through physical and digital library processes.
Improving Local Holdings Records
Michelle Hahn, Assistant Librarian, Sound Recordings Cataloger, William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University
The interconnectedness of libraries and scholars has never been more apparent than in this time of physical distancing and remote learning brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Accurate, shareable data is essential to ensure a fully functioning scholarship network. The Center for Research Libraries made the best of our time working remotely by updating our print serial holdings records from 866 to 85X/86X fields. The project was already in the planning stages before remote work was imposed, but the stay at home order thrust the project to the top of the to do list. Staff from the cataloging department and the stacks unit within Access Services working together have reviewed, parsed out, corrected, or set aside for physical review of items approximately 2,000 records. The process took into account the various levels of technology, training, and experience team members had and created a close knit, effective cross-departmental team.
If you registered for the virtual event, Tom Ferren, the ALCTS Program Officer, Continuing Education sent the link and password to the presentation recordings. If you have not registered, you can still access the slides attached to this post.
We thank you for your membership and commitment to the Catalog Management Interest Group.
Dan Tam Do
Marina Morgan
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Marina Morgan
Metadata Librarian
Modern Languages Liaison
Florida Southern College, Roux Library
Phone: +1 (863) 616-6450
Email:
mmorgan@flsouthern.eduORCID: 0000-0002-1829-1016
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