Digital Accessibility as a Core Competency for E-Resources Librarians

SUMMARY Librarians have long agonized over the challenge of the so-called multiple version problem: how to catalog, associate, and present related titles or related manifestations of a given work. The appearance of increasingly large aggregations of electronic serials that defy easy control has raised the level of interest in newer approaches. At the LC Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control, Confronting the Challenge of Networked Resources and the Web, I argued that vendor supply of metadata for serial aggregations was essential if the library community was to achieve title-level control of these important and expensive titles. It was argued that keeping MARC records for the aggregations separate in the technical services view of the catalog but merging them on the fly for the public view of the catalog would allow a sophisticated ILS to achieve the best of both worlds by having individual records and supporting a multiple versions approach to the public display. Since that talk was delivered in November 2000, the California Digital Library and the State University of New York's Office of Library Information Services have worked with Ex Libris to implement a multiple versions approach to their virtual union catalogs.

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Serial aggregations-multiple versions and the virtual union catalogue: the Ex Libris experience

The authors, both teaching faculty, identify this book as a textbook which contains content they impart to their students in master's level library science programs. Sheri V. T. Ross teaches at St....

Guide to electronic resource management

This article recounts a project at the Middle Tennessee State University library to include records for electronic databases in the online catalog. Although electronic databases are accessible via the library's Databases A-Z list and related subject guides, cataloging these resources also provides access via the online catalog, allowing more of the library's resources to be accessible in one place. The project is a collaborative effort between the User Services and Collection Management departments, where there is shared responsibility for the acquisition, service, and maintenance of electronic databases. The benefits of cataloging electronic databases are discussed as well as workflow and processing issues.

Records for Electronic Databases in the Online Catalog at Middle Tennessee State University

Middle Tennessee State University's James E. Walker Library implemented an acquisitions workflow in which repurposed data is loaded into the ILS. The workflow involves the use of a local MS Access database that tracks order requests and the use of the MarcEdit software to create brief bibliographic and order records from information in the database. Records are loaded into the library's ILS using the batch-load function. By integrating automation into their local workflow, the department has optimized the use of the ILS while supporting efficiency, accuracy, and accountability. The workflow is an example of how data can be efficiently repurposed to meet operational needs.

Beverly J. Geckle

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Guide to electronic resource management

Records for Electronic Databases in the Online Catalog at Middle Tennessee State University

Repurposing Data in an Acquisitions Workflow