[Web4lib] ALA ALCTS Cataloging Norms Interest Group Saturday, July 11, 2009, 1:30-3:30pm

[Michael Kim]

Please excuse duplicate posting:

REMINDER: Cataloging Norms Interest Group (CNIG) Saturday, July 11, 2009,
1:30-3:30 p.m. Chicago Hilton, Continental C

Four presentations and discussions "for the exploration, communication, and
exchange of ideas and best practices on the dynamics of cataloging/metadata
norms and workflows in the hybrid environment."

1. Title: Beyond the OPAC: Creating Different Interfaces for Specialized
Collections in an ILS System (20 minutes)
Presenter: Sai Deng, Metadata Catalog Librarian, Wichita State University
Libraries, Wichita Kansas.

Description: This presentation will discuss the speaker's experiment of
creating featured websites from specialized data in Voyager ILS such as
faculty author books, leisure reading, new book lists and local Art Museum
collection. These websites can be seamlessly integrated into public
programming events and library instruction sessions to introduce local
authors, featured collections and resources in a specific area. The websites
of Faculty Research Publications and Women's Studies Video Resources at
Wichita State University will be showcased. The speaker will also discuss
the model used to create the websites: selecting data from Oracle database,
presenting SQL query results, and creating the websites using web
programming for browsing and search. The option of transforming data from
MARC to DC will also be discussed. This model can be applied to different
sets of data by slightly modifying the query, the programming and the web
appearance. Some features of public websites such as linking each record
back to OPAC, adding RSS feeds, Syndetic and other cover images to the
websites will be addressed. Finally, the speaker will discuss disintegration
of library data versus integration of library data and the pros and cons of
each method.


2. Title: Cataloging Art and Cultural Works in Library Collections (20
minutes)
Presenter: Elizabeth O'Keefe, Director of Collection Information Systems,
Morgan Library & Museum, New York, N.Y.

Description: Works of art and material culture are found in almost every
library collection, in the form of portraits of founders or donors, artwork
donated for decorative purposes, or cultural objects in collections of
papers acquired by the library. There are usually too few objects to justify
the creation of a separate database; in any case, a separate database
complicates collection management and fragments access.
The best way to provide access to these objects is to document them in the
main library catalog. In doing so, librarians will find it helpful to look
beyond rules designed for cataloging textual and/or published material, and
to seek guidance from descriptive conventions developed by other metadata
communities. In particular, Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to
Describing Cultural Works and Their Images (CCO) is an invaluable source for
the choice and formulation of information appropriate for the description of
art and cultural works. The presenter will describe how the Morgan Library &
Museum applies CCO as a supplement to library data standards such as AACR,
DCRM, Betz, etc. when creating MARC records for art and cultural objects in
its Voyager library system, and how these records are repurposed as metadata
for Web-accessible digital images.
Questions/Discussion (10 minutes)

3. Title: The eXtensible Catalog's Metadata Services Toolkit: Lowering the
Bar for Automated Metadata Processing (20 minutes)
Presenter: Jennifer Bowen, Director of Metadata Management, Co-Principal
Investigator, eXtensible Catalog Project, University of Rochester,
Rochester, N.Y.

Description: Libraries are struggling with the challenges of integrating
metadata from a variety of sources: MARC catalog data; metadata from
institutional repositories, digital projects, and course management systems,
into their web discovery interfaces. Combining such disparate metadata as
part of a library workflow will require easy-to-use tools for automated
processing of metadata to correct, enrich, transform, and aggregate metadata
from these disparate sources.
The eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project is developing an open-source platform
that will enable libraries to easily accomplish these tasks. The XC Metadata
Services Toolkit (MST) enables the processing of metadata in any XML schema
using pluggable services, automatically handles updated records, enables the
scheduling of a variety of services, and makes the updated metadata
available for harvesting by other applications. The MST offers an ideal
platform for experimenting with new emerging schemas and standards, such as
RDA. This presentation will describe the MST and its services, and the
importance of this tool for libraries. It will also include a demonstration
of the latest version of the MST, which is currently being developed.

4. Title: Better, Faster, Stronger: Integrating Archives Processing and
Technical Services (20 minutes)
Presenters: Betty Meagher, Head, Metadata & Materials Processing, Penrose
Library, University of Denver, Colorado and
Kate Crowe, Interim Archives Processing Librarian, Penrose Library,
University of Denver, Colorado.

Description: Archival processing and library technical services are both
undergoing radical changes in an attempt to stay relevant in an increasingly
digital world. Archives have struggled to shift their focus from cataloging
at the collection-level to deeper, more granular access to archival
materials to meet increasing user demands for digital access to individual
collection objects, while library technical services have begun to look for
new activities as processing non-unique print resources becomes less of a
focus. The archival community's issues are compounded by the fact that both
metadata standards (EAD) and content standards (DACS) are geared toward the
collection, rather than to the items in the collection. Archival
professionals have traditionally viewed each collection, and each metadata
record about each collection, as unique in and of itself. This artisanal
approach has limited the archives' ability to extend processing to the
deeper level of detail required to make digital access to collection
materials possible.
In contrast, library technical services have traditionally used streamlined
and automated workflows for processing and the aggregation of content at the
item level though subject terms as an organizing principle of access.
In an era of shrinking budgets, reduced staffing, and the need for units to
show their value to the larger organization, this presentation will show how
one library and archives saw these challenges as an opportunity to fully
integrate archives processing into its technical services unit and develop a
hybrid form of processing that respects the traditions of both disciplines
while creating more user-focused metadata and access tools.

Questions/Discussion + Wrap Up (10 minutes)