ALCTS Catalog Form & Function Interest Group at Annual, Saturday, 10:30-12:00 Jacquie Samples 06 Jul 2009 19:20 UTC
Apologies for duplication, this has been sent to several lists. *Accentuating the "e-": Electronic resources in the public catalog* ALCTS Catalog Form and Function Interest Group ALA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL Saturday, 11 July, 10:30-12:00 a.m. Chicago Hilton: Continental C Libraries are increasingly looking for ways to draw attention to their growing local and consortial investments in e-resources by flagging these titles in the catalog, adding URLs to print and e-versions, adding search filters or facets for "Online", "Internet", "e-book", and "e-journal" offerings, creating external lists, RSS feeds, and so on. We will look at some of these methods and see if they are really serving the need they were intended to serve. *Surfacing Electronic Resources in WorldCat Local* /Steve Shadle, Serials Access Librarian, University of Washington/ In April 2007, the University of Washington Libraries debuted WorldCat Local, a localized version of the WorldCat database that interoperates with a library's ILS and fulfillment services to provide a single-search interface for a library's physical and electronic content. I will describe how WorldCat Local incorporates a library's existing e-resource access methods into the WCL interface and also discusses additional e-resource access services that are not typically found in the library catalog. *Spotlighting E-resources in the Catalog* /Michael Kreyche, Systems Librarian, Kent State University/ Kent State has it's share of E-resources--lots of e-journals, a growing number of e-books, video, music...and government documents. When we introduced the "scoping" feature in our Innovative Interfaces catalog, we defined an "Online Resources" collection so patrons could limit searches to material available online. The two main challenges we had were to identify which records in our system represented such material and to code them appropriately--keeping maintenance to a bare minimum. This feature was introduced in January, so we don't have much evidence yet on how it's being used, but we've begun to examine our server logs. *That Didn’t Go Quite as Planned!: Obtaining and Improving E-book Records in a Consortial Environment* /Kristin E. Martin, Metadata Librarian, and Kavita Mundle, Assistant Catalog Librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago/ The University of Illinois at Chicago Library, through the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC, a consortium of the Big Ten libraries plus the University of Chicago), purchased a large number of Springer e-books. An agreement with Coutts/Ingram meant that the content was dual-hosted on the SpringerLink and the MyiLibrary platforms, and Coutts/Ingram would provide catalog records for the titles. UIC intended to load the records into its own catalog and into shared catalog for the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries of Illinois (CARLI). CARLI manages the shared catalog of 76 different institutions as well as the server for UIC’s local catalog. The hopefully simple process of loading batches of records into the catalog turned out to be quite complicated and time-consuming. Three major issues complicated the loading of the records: quality-control issues in the records themselves, managing the records within the consortial environment, and changing content and vendor relations between Ingram and Springer. This presentation will demonstrate how UIC worked with the CIC and Ingram to improve the record quality, identify problematic content, and eventually load records into the catalog. It will also discuss some of the lessons learned and continuing challenges of trying to work with vendor records and maintain bibliographic control over e-content. Information should be particularly beneficial to other libraries working in a consortium without much local technical support as well as any library working with vendors to obtain bibliographic records for e-books.