This session will explore the advantages offered by an implementation of MODS as the primary descriptive metadata schema for a digital library’s collections and items.
Archive | Poster Session
From Lone Wolf to Wolf Pack: Cultivating a Metadata Team
As libraries begin to employ more metadata professionals, there comes a need to develop a team environment.
The E-Resources Dashboard: Performance Metrics for Initiating Conversations with Faculty
Learn more about Berry College Memorial Library’s attempt to identify useful performance metrics for e-resources.
To Weed or Not to Weed: That Is the Collection
While deselection is not a new concept to libraries, it is not often a top priority.
Using MARC to Tell a Story
Catalogs can be filled with a large amount of diverse records. Some libraries are in need of different, better ways to use catalog data to illustrate facts.
Clearing Free to Ride: A Lesson in Providing Copyright Support in All Stages of Creation
In 2017, The Ohio State University’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity released Free to Ride, a feature-length documentary about Leaders for Equality and Action (LEAD), a coalition who fought for free public transit in Dayton, Ohio.
New Signposts, New Paths, New Directions: Managing Change
Since 2015, Ottenheimer library has dismantled the traditional public services/technical services division.
Collaborative Adaptation of Preservation Processes: Redefining the Workflow for Circulating Books
Colorado State University Libraries has developed an innovative workflow for treating monographs which arrive in the Preservation Lab from the general collections.
Unexpected Discovery: Catalog Cleanup After Implementing Discovery
Before implementing EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), we were not aware of potential issues with our MARC records and how they would display in Discovery.
Business in the Front, Party in the Back: Revising Metadata Processes Up-Front to Benefit Back-End Workflows
When faced with the prospect of manually uploading thousands of collection objects into our digital repository, we created a workflow that allows us to take a metadata spreadsheet containing thousands of rows and transform it into a series of MODS XML files, using OpenRefine’s templating tool.