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

Information Services Current cataloguing

Information Services Proportion of extra copies/original cataloguing

Information Services 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  Hallward Store – pre-1850 material

Information Services Discards 2000/ /06

Information Services 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

Information Services 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)

Information Services New types of resource to catalogue  eBooks -  eJournals  Learning objects

Information Services Sample record

Information Services New tasks – RAE data validation  Research Assessment Exercise  University publications database  Standardising names of journals and publishers

Information Services 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

Information Services 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 ( )  Indexing of cards and creation of interface  Service ready by week before term starts

Information Services 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)

Information Services Metadata for eResources (2)  Quality of records / access to resources  Use of Aleph tools and scripts to “fix” records  Indexing  Impact on the catalogue

Information Services  Questions, commments …