Merging Electronic and Digital Resources with Traditional Library Collections, Part III

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Merging Electronic and Digital Resources with
Traditional Library Collections, Part III

• Technical Services Functions and Workflows
• Karen Calhoun
• Cornell University Library
• September 2003

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Early 21st Century Technical Services Landscape
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Process A New E-Resource for Find Databases
C
no
Select for Find Databases?
Import to Find Databases
NERF
yes
Licensed?
Link to browse categories
yes
Catalog in Voyager
EZProxy
no
End (for now)
Aggregator?
yes
B
Save Voyager record
no
Convert to DC XML
Make preliminary record
http//www.library.cornell.edu/voyager/Bibs/ECat/e
-catTOC.html
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Process B Aggregators
New Aggregator
Extract and convert to DC XML
(all e-journals every two months)
Licensed?
yes
Batch load to Find E-Journals
EZProxy
no
MARC recs available?
no
Link to browse categories
Obtain metadata
yes
Batch create MARC records
End (until next cycle)
Batch load in Voyager
(can include e-books)
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Process C New E-Resource, not for Find Databases
NERF
Not selected For Find Databases
yes
Licensed?
Catalog in Voyager
EZProxy
no
End
Aggregator?
yes
B
no
Make preliminary record
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Metadata in ENCompass

• See Marty Kurths presentation
• Getting started with metadata in ENCompass
• Available from Cornell ENCompass project page
  (other presentations too, and screen shots)
• http//www.library.cornell.edu/cts/encompass/
• presentations/MAVUG20Metadata20Overview.ppt

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Adding a New Z39.50 Database to Find Articles

• To set up resources like catalogs or indexes or
  full-text for federated searching
• Map MARC format to metadata format of ENCompass
  Collection Manager (in Cornells case, Dublin
  Core)
• Adjust or edit mapping