Transcript Challenges & Solutions to Cataloging Departments

Access for user selfsufficiency: making rich local
content intuitively available
Catalog Transformed:
From Traditional to Emerging Models of Use
Program of RUSA/RSS Catalog Use and
RUSA/MARS User Access to Services
ALA June 25, 2006, New Orleans
Catalog in the Google Age
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Web in the Local Context
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Tangible Collections
Hidden Treasures
Electronic Resources
Digital Collections
Web Resources
Tangible Collections
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Still vital for any library
-- for Research or casual needs
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AACR2r/MARC records
Enhanced Content
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LC’s BEAT program
Commercial solutions
Index scanned documents using OCR
Scanned texts
Hidden Treasures
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Special Collections
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Archives and Manuscripts
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Collection-level record to EAD
Creative use of ERM for archival collections
• Portland State University
Electronic Resources
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Single access point
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Catalog v. A-Z list
MARC records from vendors
 ERMs
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Digital Collections and
Institutional Repositories
Outside the catalog
 Links mostly one-way from the catalog
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Digital Collections and
Institutional Repositories
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Links to the catalog from Digital Asset
Management systems and Institutional
Repositories
Web Resources
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Selective scholarly resources
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American Memory (LC)
Strategic Thinking
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Enriched Content
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Intuitive Interface
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Re-deployment of resources
Thank You!
Jina Choi Wakimoto
Head, Cataloging & Metadata Services
University of Colorado at Boulder
[email protected]