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Title: Current Trends in Electronic Resources Cataloging


1
Current Trends in Electronic Resources Cataloging
  • Carrie Preston
  • November 1, 2004

2
Practical Problems
  • Time and expertise required to catalog
    e-resources
  • Cataloging must be done as soon as possible for
    rented resources
  • Thousands of journals and e-book titles provided
    via aggregator databases
  • Not to mention free web sites

3
Five Trends
  • Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
    (FRBR)
  • Aggregator-neutral records
  • Integrating resources category
  • Outsourced cataloging
  • Non-MARC cataloging or metadata
  • What are the practical implications of each trend?

4
FRBR
  • Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
  • Concentrate on information that patrons need to
    find, identify, select and obtain access to the
    resource
  • Defines work (intellectual content) versus
    manifestation (how that content is delivered)

5
FRBR
  • Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
  • Acknowledges both old-fashioned descriptive
    information (title, author, publisher, etc.), and
  • Newer aspects which are just as important to
    patrons (technical requirements, restrictions on
    access)

6
FRBR
  • Practical implications
  • Acknowledged perfect cataloging isnt always
    possible
  • Acknowledged limited time and resources should
    be spent on the aspects of cataloging that help
    patrons the most

7
FRBR
  • Practical implications
  • Provides guidelines for what to include when
    creating truncated or simplified records
  • Allows flexibility according to the individual
    context

8
Aggregator-Neutral Records
  • The same journal (work) may be available online
    through several different vendors
    (manifestations)
  • Create a single descriptive record for each
    journal (work), containing information that
    applies to the work, not the manifestation
  • Multiple web addresses acknowledge the different
    vendors (manifestations)

9
Aggregator-Neutral Records
  • Practical implications
  • Endorses one record principle for multiple
    electronic versions of a journal
  • OCLC chooses one record to be the master record
    for each journal
  • Should a library worry about whether its record
    is the right one? Maybe

10
Integrating Resources
  • AACR and OCLC acknowledge a new category of
    integrating resources
  • Resources that are NOT published all at once in
    the finished state (like a book), but
  • Are also NOT published in definable units (like
    journal issues)
  • E.g., web sites, loose-leaf publications

11
Integrating Resources
  • Practical implications
  • Governing bodies acknowledgement of integrating
    resources as a category may lead to more guidance
    about how to deal with web sites and other
    nebulous resources
  • Will hopefully lead to more uniformity in
    treatment of these resources

12
Outsourced Cataloging
  • MARC records supplied by the database vendor
    (e.g., Ebsco provides MARC records for the
    full-text journals found in the Academic Search
    Premier database)
  • MARC records supplied by a library services
    company (Serials Solutions)

13
Outsourced Cataloging
  • Practical implications
  • Saves in-house time and effort, although in-house
    customization may still be necessary
  • May also save in-house time spent on
    updating/maintaining records (vendor provides
    periodic updates)

14
Outsourced Cataloging
  • Practical implications
  • Quality and accuracy of vendor-supplied records
    may be low
  • Serials Solutions records may be higher in
    quality, but more expensive
  • Can lead to multiple records for the same title
    (if title carried by more than one vendor)

15
Non-MARC cataloging
  • Describe items using metadata or markup
    languages such as XML, RDF (Resource Description
    Framework)
  • Crosswalks may convert MARC records to other
    formats, and vice versa (detail may be lost when
    converting from MARC)

16
Non-MARC cataloging
  • Practical implications
  • None immediatemost of our library software still
    requires MARC records
  • Unclear what will emerge as the dominant standard
  • Keep in mind that MARC may not hang around forever

17
Conclusions
  • Governing bodies show signs of catching up in
    terms of acknowledging the problems of electronic
    resources cataloging
  • Having old-fashioned, perfect MARC records for
    everything may not be feasible

18
Conclusions
  • Different methods may be appropriate for
    different types of items
  • What methods are best for a particular library
    depends on available resources, context and
    patron need

19
Further reading
  • FRBR
  • IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements
    for Bibliographic Records (1998). Functional
    Requirements for Bibliographic Records final
    report. http//www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.htm

20
Further reading
  • Aggregator-neutral records
  • Young, N.K. (2004). The aggregator-neutral
    record new procedures for cataloging continuing
    resources. The Serials Librarian, 454, 37-42.
  • Integrating Resources
  • Hirons, J. (2003). Seriality what have we
    accomplished? Whats next? Cataloging
    Classification Quarterly, 363/4.

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Further reading
  • Outsourced cataloging
  • McCracken, P. (2003). Beyond title lists
    incorporating ejournals into the OPAC. The
    Serials Librarian, 453, 101-108.
  • Non-MARC cataloging
  • Jul, E. (2003). MARC and mark-up. Cataloging
    Classification Quarterly, 363/4, 141-153.
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