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Cataloging
About: Cataloging is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4770 publications have been published within this topic receiving 32489 citations.
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TL;DR: Reseach was based on primary sources documenting the early history of MARC, including unpublished documents in the Library of Congress Archives, and design factors influencing the evolution of the format through MARC II.
Abstract: Use of machine-readable cataloging data requires a commitment to the standardization of data elements and record formats. Early machine-readable formats were initiated by several research libraries to serve the needs of particular university systems. In developing MARC, the Library of Congress drew on the experiences of these libraries in establishing a standard acceptable to the research library community for the interchange of bibliographic data. This article discusses early machine-readable formats influencing MARC, the origins of the MARC Pilot Project, and design factors influencing the evolution of the format through MARC II. Reseach was based on primary sources documenting the early history of MARC, including unpublished documents in the Library of Congress Archives.
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TL;DR: The authors explain an automated process that is initiated by ProQuest and student (author) entered data, and through the addition of metadata by catalogers, including the subject headings, classification number, and so on.
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to describe the reasoning, methodology, and impact behind a semi-automated cataloging process for electronic theses and dissertations, and to explain the importance of the retention and addition of cataloger-created metadata. The authors explain an automated process that is initiated by ProQuest and student (author) entered data, and through the addition of metadata by catalogers, including the subject headings, classification number, and so on. The study includes a survey of the public service librarians’ perceived usefulness of the cataloger- and ProQuest-generated metadata to describe theses and dissertations.
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TL;DR: The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries used participatory management to reduce a special collections backlog as discussed by the authors, without an increase in budget or staffing, technical and public services departments designed a pilot project to redeploy internal human resources in a collaborative manner.
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TL;DR: The question of whether and when to pay a vendor to do the work of professional in-house catalogers strikes to the very heart of their identity as librarians, calling into question their assumptions about their ultimate purpose, their place in the scholarly information chain, and how the authors can best serve their institutions.
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