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Recent ALCTS Monographs

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For those of you who are curious about what sort of work ALCTS authors produce, check out the following recent titles from ALCTS Publishing:

The Critical Component: Standards in the Information Exchange Environment, edited by Todd A. Carpenter NISO Executive Director.

312 pages
Year Published: 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8389-8744-5

The ongoing educational, research, and entertainment missions of libraries and other cultural organizations rely on standards that underlie interoperability and data exchange, unique identifiers and authority control, ontologies, barcodes, patron management, resource sharing, discovery, web-based services, software, digital collections, preservation, metadata management, bibliographic control, and resource layout. Greater understanding of and appreciation for these information standards that permeate our work and our institutions will only help us and our institutions.  See Jean Weihs’s review in the September/October 2016 issue (36, no. 5) of Technicalities.

Shared Collections: Collaborative Stewardship, edited by Dawn Hale, Head of Technical Services at the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University.

224 pages
Year Published: 2016 
ISBN-13: 978-0-8389-1403-8 

Libraries and the organizations that provide services to them are devoting more attention to system-wide organization of collections—whether the "system" is a consortium, a region or a country.  As a strategy for saving space and money while expanding access to additional materials and resources, the value of shared collections is indubitable. This collected volume from the Association of Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) spotlights the histories and experiences of several collaborations at academic libraries. Contributors share winning strategies for intentional decision-making in developing and managing shared collections, both print and digital, with expert guidance. With practical advice on issues such as governance and business models, demand driven acquisition, rare works, and access, this monograph is a valuable resource for academic library directors, administrators, and collection development leaders.

Linked Data for Cultural Heritage, edited by Ed Jones, Associate Director for Library Assessment and Technical Services at National University in San Diego, and Michele Seikel, professor on the library faculty for Oklahoma State University.

152 pages
Year Published: 2016
ISBN-13: 978-0-8389-1439-7

With its roots in computer science, linked data is unfamiliar territory for many library catalogers. But since the origins of MARC nearly 50 years ago, the value of machine-readable library records has only grown.  Today linked data is essential for sharing library collections on the open web, especially the digital cultural heritage in the collections of libraries, archives, and museums. In this book, the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) gathers a stellar list of contributors to help readers understand linked data concepts by examining practice and projects based in familiar concepts like authority control. Topped by an insider’s perspective on OCLC’s experiments with Schema.org and the Library of Congress’s BIBFRAME project, Linked Data for Cultural Heritage will be a key resource for catalogers and those in the metadata community.

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