Archives for the Month of February 2009 on Bibliographic/Metadata Services
Bibliographic/Metadata Meeting Minutes, Feb. 11, 2009
Here are the minutes from our meeting:
1. Updates:
(a) withdrawals: Anthony and Linda are working on these. I'll speak to Sharon about space issues.
(b) Dewey Reclass: Kim is working on the oversized Deweys. Anthony will soon assist
(c) Approvals and firm orders: keeping up. Numbers are down, but that may soon change over the next few weeks
(d) Standing orders: up to date.
(e) 090's: Steady progress
(f) Special Collections: latest cart almost done.
(g) DVD's: approx. 1 a week
2. Announcements:
(a) Case passwords must change by tomorrow,
(b) Stephanie Pasadyn has been hired by Acquisitions. She will begin next Tuesday.
(c) Shifting project is recruiting volunteers. If you want to volunteer, sign up (see Sharon for more details). If you do volunteer, just let me know the day(s) and time(s). Remember to record this for next year's annual review.
(d) KSL Web Site Committee may be looking for volunteers over spring break for usability testing and focus groups. Look for announcements toward the end of this month/early next month.
3. Upcoming workshops/conferences
(a) NOTSL, April 3, 9-3:30
If you want to attend, fill out travel request and give to me. We'll arrange to car pool from here that day
(b) ALA 2009 Annual conference, July 9-15, Chicago
(c) Ohio Valley Group of Tech Services Librarians (OVGTSL) 2009 conference, Indianapolis, IN, May 6-8
(d) ALAO conference, Wilmington, OH, Oct. 30
4. 2008-2013 KSL Strategic Plan. The following is bib/metadata services' role in this:
1. bib and metadata services will work towards cataloging uncataloged materials in Special Collections
2. bib and metadata services will complete the Dewey Reclassification Project by July 2009
3. bib and metadata services will make a priority of creating and repurposing descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata for varioius digitization projects. Metadata created in various formats, including METS, MODS, MARCXML, pbCore, etc.
4. bib and metadata services will implement a plan for TEI markup of selected texts for inclusion in Digital Case
5. Head of bib and metadata services will seek collaborative projects with CWRU humanities units, including Baker-Nord Center
6. bib and metadata services will contribute to CaseLearns, offering workshops in text encoding and XML
7. Monthly statistics for bib and metadata services will be expanded to include monthly metadata records and text encoding creation
8. Head of bib and metadata services will seek NEH grant funding for text encoding projects, with cooperation from Digital Case and those involved with CWRU humanities units
9. Implement new standards of cataloging/metadata creation, especially RDA and FRBR, and participate in transition from AACR2 to these formats
10. The Acquisitions department will contract for additional vendor cataloging and processing services to maximize efficiencies in cost and improve access (A. Sievers-Hill, lead)
5. Ramna's presentation on gift books:
Many languages. Approx. 80 percent LC, 15 percent non-DLC, 5 percent original, 10 percent member record. Discussion followed regarding transliteration tools. Anthony mentioned Google Translate
Mary mentioned using this resource judiciously, and investigating reputable sites. We can continue this on our Wiki or on the blog. Examples:
Princeton: http://library.princeton.edu/departments/tsd/katmandu/sgman/sltrans.html
Indiana University: http://www.indiana.edu/~libslav/slavcatman/sltrans.html
Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html
Tech Pro (I can look into this)
Anthony also mentioned collaborative efforts at digitization and record creation
Open Library
Open Content Alliance
(Definitely worth checking out, although we'll see how these progress in the coming months/years).
January 2009 Stats
Here are our statistics for January 2009:
January 2009 Cataloging Statistics (MS Excel)
OCLC January 2009 Statistics (MS Excel)