Today's Topics: 1. Cataloging Norms Interest Group program--ALA Annual 2015 (Elaine Franco) 2. ALCTS Collection Management and E-Resources Interest Group at ALA Annual 2015 (Elaine Franco) 3. ALCTS Continuing Resources Section Holdings Committee Forum (Elaine Franco) 4. ALA San Francisco - CC:AAM ?Managing Transliteration of Bibliographic Data? (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 The Cataloging Norms Interest Group will meet in Moscone Convention Center 122(N), 10:30-11:30 AM, on Saturday, June 27. The meeting will include the following three presentations: Describing Resources with BIBFRAME at the National Library of Medicine Nancy J. Fallgren, Metadata Specialist Librarian, National Library of Medicine NLM has been collaborating with George Washington University, University of California, Davis, and Zepheira to draft an experimental common, core BIBFRAME data model and vocabulary that would be useful for bibliographic cataloging and beyond. With the draft at a comfortable level of completeness, we are using that BIBFRAME model in further experiments to convert existing description from a variety of XML schema and to catalog new bibliographic materials using RDA rules. Our experiment with conversion of legacy description revolves around resources at NLM that are by or about Nobel Prize winning scientist Marshall W. Nirenberg. The new cataloging of bibliographic materials is focused on generating description for Works and Instances/Manifestations. This presentation will discuss the status of NLM's practical experimentation using BIBFRAME for resource description, including some examples, and discussion of tools we are using and/or planning to use. Skill Sets for Technical Services Staff Roman S. Panchyshyn, Assistant Professor, Kent State University As the nature of the work in technical services changes, technical services managers and library administrators need to evaluate and project what type of skill sets must be added or changed to meet the needs of future projects and workflows. My presentation will identify eight areas of competence, or skill sets, which will need to be present in technical services for the department to remain viable during the period of transition from current cataloging practices to a linked data environment. The presentation will be given from a management perspective, outlining the need for establishing a training timetable, prioritizing skill set training, and justifying the costs and resources necessary for training to library administration. The presentation will be based on my book chapter, recently accepted for publication, in the monograph titled: Creating the 21st Century Academic Library: Volume 6: Rethinking Technical Services, edited by Bradford Lee Eden. What Can We Do about Our Legacy? Diane Hillmann, RDA Development Team Underlying many of the recent conversations about new options for description is the fear that we could lose access to our legacy of MARC records, or compromise the transition from MARC to RDA sufficiently that we lose the value of those records. There are options for bringing that data with us as we move ahead, but there will need to be better understanding of what those options might be and how to make appropriate decisions for individual libraries or consortia for those conversations to proceed effectively. Decisions will need to accommodate current discovery systems, continuing needs for ILS systems for acquisitions and circulation, and IT resources available to individualize options for particular libraries, etc. The notion of pursuing 'integration' of MARC and RDA records, using the RDA fields brought into MARC, is often brought up, prompted by the early decisions of the RDA effort to pursue a 'middle ground' option, but better understanding of what is really different about RDA has made that option less attractive. The process of making decisions about those options requires that catalogers, systems librarians and administrators understand the implication of these decisions, rather than follow the herd towards a common decision-assuming that any common path could be defined and made credible. Diane Hillmann, for many years a cataloger and tech services manager, and now a member of the RDA Development Team, will discuss the issues around these decisions, and suggest possible paths for librarians. -- Robert J. Rohrbacher Metadata Librarian for Social Sciences and Government Documents Metadata Dept. Stanford University Libraries phone: 650-725-7992 fax: 650-725-1120 [email protected] --------------------------- Message: 2 Please join the Collection Management and Electronic Resources Interest Group (CMERIG) on Sunday, June 28, 2015 from 3-4 pm at the Marriott Marquis San Francisco, Golden Gate C1. Add this event to your ALA Conference Schedule: http://alaac15.ala.org/node/29202. The session will include two case studies on the challenges of sharing electronic resources. 3-3:25 pm Reversing the River: Resource Sharing Workflows in an Electronic Era. Kurt Munson, Acting Head, Access Services, Resource Sharing and Reserve Services Northwestern University Library [email protected] The environmental changes brought by access replacing ownership require a reworking of traditional interlibrary loan (ILL) workflows based on photocopying. The management of licensed e-content does not fit well into ILL's transactional nature. Changes in scholarly publishing like Open Access, NIH mandates, digital repositories coupled with opportunities like purchase on demand or new tool like the Worldcat knowledge base require changes to ILL workflows. Our workflow assumes accessible electronic availability and uses ILL only when e is unavailable. All article/chapter requests are routed first to document delivery not ILL. Staff members check all pre-1923 requests against repositories. Staff members use knowledge bases rather than the catalog. While discovery is easier for patrons, the delivery process is now a multi-faceted intensive review process of multiple potential sources requiring ILL staff members be experts at discovery. 3:30-3:55 pm Occams Reader Case Study Ryan Litsey Assistant Librarian, Document delivery/interlibrary loan Texas Tech University Libraries [email protected] Nora Dethloff, Assistant Head of Information & Access Services University of Houston Libraries [email protected] Occams Reader is the first library-developed method to lend eBooks via interlibrary loan. It is the creation of Texas Tech University in collaboration between the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA). Since 2014 the system has been in a pilot project with the publishing group Springer. As the Pilot comes to a close and Texas Tech University prepares to launch Occams Reader 2.0, which will expand the member libraries to any and all interested, it is a good time to take a look back at the pilot and hear from both the developers of the system and one of the libraries involved in the usage. The University of Houston is a member of GWLA and one of the libraries that has been a user of the system during the pilot. They will share their experiences using Occams Reader and some of the benefits and challenges to using the system. ------------------------------ Message: 3 ALCTS CRS Holdings Information Committee Forum Time: Saturday, June 27, 2015, 3:00-4:00 Location: Moscone Convention Center, 3002 (W) Please join us for two presentations on holdings data in GOKb and BIBFRAME. Kristen Wilson, Associate Head, Acquisitions and Discovery, GOKb Editor, North Carolina State University Libraries, will speak on The Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb), a partnership between Kuali OLE and Jisc. GOKb is an open data repository of information related to electronic resources as they are acquired and managed by libraries. Holdings information is a core component of GOKb. This presentation will describe the ways in which GOKb has addressed holdings information so far, as well as some of the challenges and opportunities that the project has identified as a result of this work. Xiaoli Li , Co-Head of Content Support Services Department at the University of California (UC) Davis General Library, will speak on the potential for rich bibliographic description of resources that BIBFRAME offers. However, linking these resources to library holdings data is not natively part of the BIBFRAME framework. How will serials cataloging be impacted by implementation of BIBFRAME? How will libraries handle their holdings data in BIBFRAME description? This presentation will shed some light on these issues. Xiaoli will share what UC Davis has learned from their experiment with converting serials from MARC to BIBFRAME. She will also present her thoughts on what libraries will need to do in order to move their legacy serial bibliographic and holdings data into BIBFRAME. We look forward to seeing you there. Submitted by Brian Falato on behalf of CRS Holdings Information Committee Brian Falato University of South Florida Tampa, FL 33617 (813) 974-1772 [email protected] ------------------------------ Message: 4 The Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Materials (CC:AAM) invites you to join us for its ALA San Francisco annual conference session: Managing Transliteration of Bibliographic Data. The session is scheduled for Saturday, June 27, 2015 8:30am to 10:00am at Moscone Convention Center, 3010 (W) and features the following two presentations, moderated by Margaret Hughes, Metadata Librarian for Humanities, Social Sciences & Africana at Stanford University. For more information, please visit <http://alaac15.ala.org/node/28690>. Character encoding in Unicode, transliteration, and the future of multilingual search - Deborah Anderson, Research Linguist, University of California-Berkeley. With the recent growth and widespread adoption of the international character encoding standard Unicode, multilingual text has become increasingly available on computers and mobile devices. However, over 100 modern minority and historical scripts are not yet in Unicode, making it difficult to locate text materials online. In addition, support for many of the modern minority scripts on digital platforms and tools is still marginal, so finding materials in these scripts is severely hindered. In the library realm, transliteration remains a key tool to locate text materials and records in non-Roman scripts. However, ALA-LC Romanization tables only cover a limited number of languages, so accessing multilingual records is still hampered. This talk will report on the background and current work in encoding non-Roman script! s for Unicode, discuss transliteration, and suggest potential directions forward. Building Blocks for Accessing Multilingual Data: CLDR - Steven Loomis, Technical Lead, IBM Global Foundations Technology Team. The Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) project collects language data which enables vendors to build software that supports the languages of the world. The latest release of CLDR contains full coverage for over 77 languages, with basic information on many other languages. CLDR data includes, for example, a list of the characters used by different languages, keyboards, transliteration rules, and translations of cultural and regionally conventions. In the librarians' world, CLDR data could be leveraged to speed support for accessing and create, validate and order multilingual records, and provide keyboards, character pickers for various languages, and transliteration tools. Thank you for your interest. We look forward to seeing you there! On behalf of CC:AAM, Charles Riley, Yukari Sugiyama, and Iman Dagher. ------------------------------ End of Tsig Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1 ***********************************
