Introduction This bibliography is meant to accompany the literature review on cataloging and classification covering 2009 and 2010, " Cresting toward the Sea Change, " that is published in the April 2012 issue of Library Resources and Technical Services (volume 56, number 2). It contains citations to English-sources are listed here than were discussed in the literature review. The citations are arranged in the same manner as the article, with entries listed under nine broad topic headings (see the list, below). All site addresses included in the citations were viewed and the links correct as of December 16, 2011. Acknowledgments The bibliography was funded in part through a Carnegie-Whitney grant awarded to Sue Ann Gardner by the Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS) Editorial Board. Many thanks to Charles Wilt, ALCTS Executive Director, who facilitated the awarding of the grant, and to the LRTS Board for their support. Thanks are due to Anna Sophia Cotton, research assistant for the project, who gathered citations for this project from August through November 2010.

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List of Sources, Cresting toward the Sea Change: Literature Review of Cataloging and Classification, 2009-2010

This paper surveys library literature on cataloging and classification published in 2007–8, indicating its extent and range in terms of types of literature, major subject areas, and themes. The paper reviews pertinent literature in the following areas: the future of bibliographic control, general cataloging standards and texts, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), cataloging varied resources, metadata and cataloging in the Web world, classification and subject access, questions of diversity and diverse perspectives, additional reports of practice and research, catalogers’ education and careers, keeping current through columns and blogs, and cataloging history.

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Cataloging and classification: Review of the literature 2007-8

Introduction As resources are encoded in various metadata schemes, digital libraries grow, and the internet and metadata encoding in general move toward interoperability, the problems of name and identity disambiguation pose problems in metadata development. Databases and search features must be able to determine whether the person who wrote article A also wrote article B. Searchers may want to call up all items written or created by a particular person. Researchers may need to determine exactly who wrote an article in order to pursue contact that author to propose future collaboration or ask follow questions about the data. Most metadata practices do not easily support name disambiguation and the problem grows as the number of resources and varieties of metadata also grow. Smalheiser and Torvik offer an excellent description of the four main challenges that impact name disambiguation. First, the same individual might write under more than one name due to "orthographic and spelling variations," spelling errors, name changes (for marriage, etc.), the use of pseudonyms or pen names (Smalheiser & Torvik, 2009). Secondly, there are many different people with the same name. Perreria, et al. identify this problem as a situation with polysemes, as opposed to the first case, in which there are synonyms (2009). Some names, like John Smith, appear again and again, creating the challenge of distinguishing one author from another. Thirdly, according to Smalheiser and Torvik, metadata, especially in article databases or on blogs, may be incomplete; many times only the initials of the first name and middle name are included in article databases and not the full name. Lastly, many articles are multi-authored and interdisciplinary (2009). The growing trend of interdisciplinary work makes it more difficult to tell whether the John Smith publishing about linguistics is different from the John Smith publishing in biochemistry, whereas in the past, two identities might be safely assumed. Han, et al. point out that "[n]ame ambiguity can affect the quality of scientific data gathering, can decrease the performance of information retrieval and web search, and can cause the incorrect identification of and credit attribution to authors" (2004). They give an example in Digital Bibliography & Library Project where one author page, which should reflect a single author's work, actually has citations that belong to three separate people (Han, et al., 2004). With so much as stake in resolving the name ambiguity problem, researchers have been working hard on discovering a solution, especially during the past few years. Human or Machine Disambiguation There is disagreement about whether information science researchers should focus on manual or automatic name disambiguation methods. Smalheiser and Torvik list two reasons why manual disambiguation is not always possible. First, there is the problem of very large digital libraries that often harvest their metadata from other sources. Since they are mixing records from many places that each might use their own form of name authority, and since they are huge, it is not practical to manually create and fix name authorities for those libraries (2009). Smalheiser and Torvik's second reason is that internet searches will always looks at many more resources than can practically be manually cataloged (2009). Search engines and other methods for organizing and finding information on the World Wide Web must implement workable automatic name disambiguation methods. In contrast to Smalheiser and Torvik, Veve argues that automated name matching will always fail and so human intervention will always be required (Veve, 2009). Veve explains that "the few endeavors that have tried [name authority control in XML], such as the systems for automated generation of authority control, have only been successful in extracting names from XML records but not in turning them into reliable access points" (Veve, 2009). …

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Survey of Author Name Disambiguation: 2004 to 2010

This article details the results of a 2011 study of cataloger librarians’ changing roles and responsibilities at academic Association of Research Libraries. The study participants, cataloging department heads, report that cataloger librarian roles are expanding to include cataloging more electronic resources and local hidden collections in addition to print materials. They are also creating non-MARC metadata. The increased usage of vendor products and services is also affecting the roles of cataloger librarians at some institutions. The article explores what skills cataloger librarians will need in the future and how libraries are providing training for that future.

https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&context=libcat_pubs

ARL Cataloger Librarian Roles and Responsibilities Now and In the Future

This article describes in detail the management of a Resource Description and Access (RDA) implementation process by an academic library that was an early adopter of RDA. It identifies the necessary decisions to be made and discusses the rationale behind these decisions during the implementation process. This information can benefit other libraries with managing their local RDA implementations. The authors examine the business case behind implementation from various perspectives such as administrative support, training, documentation, establishment of local procedures and costs. It aims to help cataloging/technical services/metadata managers understand the scope of the process and the impact it will have on their libraries.

Understanding the Why: A Case Study in Managing the RDA Implementation

While a growing body of literature addresses the integration of non-MARC metadata duties into the workflow of traditional catalogers, most of it consists of isolated case studies that describe the integration experience at the local level. No study yet has covered the trends of non-MARC metadata integration in catalogers' workflows on a large scale, much less the impact this integration has had on catalogers. To address this gap in the literature, the authors performed a survey in four cataloging discussion lists to determine trends in the integration of non-MARC metadata duties into the workflow of traditional catalogers in U.S. academic libraries, the impact this implementation has had on them, plus catalogers' perceptions towards non-MARC metadata. The survey, which was administered in August 2008, addresses aspects of non-MARC metadata production such as local procedures, workflows, schemas, tools, training, preconceptions, and the impact new responsibilities have had on the job performance and worklo...

Integrating Non-MARC Metadata Duties into the Workflow of Traditional Catalogers: A Survey of Trends and Perceptions among Catalogers in Four Discussion Lists

While many different endeavors to support name authority control in Extensible Markup Language (XML) metadata have been explored, none have been accepted as a best practice. For this reason, libraries continue to experiment with the schema, tool, or process that best suits their local authority control needs in XML. This paper discusses current endeavors to support name authority control in XML for digitized collections and demonstrates an innovative manual solution developed and implemented by the University of Tennessee Libraries to achieve this goal. Even though this method for authority control in XML metadata still relies on manual efforts, it effectively reduces time and research work by efficiently setting priorities, identifying critical descriptive areas in the digital transcriptions, and identifying the most appropriate biographical resources to consult. The effectiveness of this approach in improving the rest of the metadata production workflow is evaluated and presented.

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Supporting Name Authority Control in XML Metadata: A Practical Approach at the University of Tennessee

This article discusses some of the most popular automated and semi-automated approaches currently used in libraries to harvest electronic theses and dissertations’ (ETD) metadata from institutional repositories (IR) to the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). The approaches presented are divided into four main sections: (1) completely automated approaches, (2) semi-automated approaches that rely on ProQuest Services, (3) semi-automated approaches that rely on highly technical tools, and (4) semi-automated approaches that rely on the MarcEdit OAI Harvester. An analysis, including limitations and barriers to implementation, is provided and solely based on case studies presented throughout the library literature, on presentations, and on the author's and other institutions’ experiences. Recommendations for future research and suggestions for improvements are provided.

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Harvesting ETD Metadata from Institutional Repositories to OCLC: Approaches and Barriers to Implementation

To date, the library literature has overflowed with articles on the theory and application of the FRBR conceptual model, but little has been written about its counterpart for authorities: the Functional Requirements for Authority Data conceptual model (FRAD). Discussions of the theory of FRAD have been written by Glenn Patton and members of the FRANAR Working Group, but nothing has been documented yet about its application to real authority files. The following article addresses this gap in the literature by analyzing the FRAD conceptual model, examining its applicability to an authority file for manuscripts, and proposing a way to implement and display this entity-relationship model in a local authority file. The usefulness of this FRAD-based authority file in cataloging manuscripts is evaluated and presented.

Marielle Veve

Papers

Integrating Non-MARC Metadata Duties into the Workflow of Traditional Catalogers: A Survey of Trends and Perceptions among Catalogers in Four Discussion Lists

Supporting Name Authority Control in XML Metadata: A Practical Approach at the University of Tennessee

Harvesting ETD Metadata from Institutional Repositories to OCLC: Approaches and Barriers to Implementation

Applying the FRAD Conceptual Model to an Authority File for Manuscripts: Analysis of a Local Implementation

From Digital Commons to OCLC: A Tailored Approach for Harvesting and Transforming ETD Metadata into High-Quality Records