Information Services Cataloguing & Metadata Team Activity & Projects, 2005/06 Janet Wharton.

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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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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


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)


New types of resource to catalogue

eBooks -

eJournals

Learning objects


Sample record


New tasks – RAE data validation

Research Assessment Exercise

University publications database

Standardising names of journals and publishers


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


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


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)


Metadata for eResources (2)

Quality of records / access to resources

Use of Aleph tools and scripts to “fix” records

Indexing

Impact on the catalogue


Questions, commments …

Information Services Cataloguing & Metadata Team Activity & Projects, 2005/06 Janet Wharton.

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