LET ME SEE THAT EBOOK: Managing Cataloguing and Access through Collaboration

Aaron Wood Jim ShetlerMetadata Librarian Vice President, Library Technical ServicesUniversity of Calgary YBP Library Services

Anne Harris Aron Wolf Director of Partner Relations Data Acquisitions Editor ebrary, Inc. Serials Solutions

XXIX Annual Charleston ConferenceNovember 7, 2009

University of Calgary’s ebook activity:

•Over 130 databases with ebook content•Over 300,000 ebooks available through

the OPAC•Digital access to over 150,000 ebooks

enabled or enhanced over the past two years

Obstacles to Ebook Access and Discover•Sheer volume of titles•Varying cataloguing and metadata

standards•Number of channels for ebook records•Maintaining volatile collections and

keeping up with website changes•Lack of a reliable unique identifier

Our Collaboration

Policy and Plan

•Inform Library staff of difficulties inherent to ebook cataloguing and access

•Consolidate record sources and record-loading process

Collaborative Solution

eBook Cataloging – a Materials Vendor’s Perspective

Jim ShetlerVice President, Library Technical Services

YBP Library Services

The existing marketplace•Libraries are still “OPAC centric”. •Libraries want, and demand, materials

vendors to provide the same high-quality MARC records for eBooks as they do for print.

•Libraries want a cataloging product that can easily dovetail into existing technical services workflows with little or no local remediation.

•Libraries want these products to be low cost or, ideally, free.

The challenges

•Evolving national standards. •Application of those standards vary from

customer to customer.•Local requirements vary widely. •Access to a digital object is often

immediate. In other words, there is no tangible object to “pick, process, pack and ship”. Therefore, the ability to deliver robust cataloging support as quickly as possible, ideally immediately, is paramount.

The solutions•Listen to your customers. Assess their needs

and requirements with an open mind.•Provide a product that can easily be plugged

into existing workflows. Imposing an extraneous workflow to accommodate your product will not satisfy your customer base.

•Provide a product that requires little or no local remediation.

•Play by the rules (AACR2, MARC, etc.)

The future

•“The future is unwritten” – The Clash•Will the members of this audience witness

the demise of MARC?•Will the members of this audience witness

the demise of the OPAC and underlying ILS system?

•Who will create the future? Will it be a collaborative effort or will that future be imposed?

Is the Current Environment Really that Complex? Are Multiple Platforms Really an Issue?

•Large backlist packages available on multiple platforms: publisher platform, EBL, ebrary, MyiLibrary, Netlibrary, etc.

•Individual frontlist and backlist titles available for purchase through various book vendors on the same multiple platforms

•Select titles part of ebook subscriptions on specialized platforms

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Aron WolfData Acquisitions Editor

The Authoritative Knowledgebase of E-Resources

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Percent coverage of ebook packages in catalogue activated in Serials Solutions MARC service as of August 2009

Database/Package Name Coverage in Catalogue (%)

AccessPharmacy 96

AccessScience 100

Books24x7 BusinessPro Collection 73

Histories Online 98

Ebrary-hosted Wiley InterScience Online Books–Medical, Veterinary 98

ENVIROnetBASE 100

Health Source: Consumer Edition 1

HeinOnline Supreme Court Library 100

Knovel Library: Engineering, Life Sciences & Chemistry collections 94

MD Consult Core Collection 100

MIT CogNet 100

Reference Online: Premium 93

Reference Online: Western Civilization 83

Scholarship Online Biology 100

Database/Package Name Coverage in Catalogue (%)

Scholarship Online Business and Management 100

Scholarship Online Classical Studies 100

Scholarship Online Economics and Finance 100

Scholarship Online History 100

Scholarship Online Linguistics 100

Scholarship Online Literature 100

Scholarship Online Mathematics 100

Scholarship Online Music 100

Scholarship Online Philosophy 100

Scholarship Online Physics 100

Scholarship Online Political Science 100

Scholarship Online Psychology 100

Scholarship Online Religion 100

POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials 100

Percent coverage of ebook packages in catalogue activated in Serials Solutions MARC service as of August 2009 – Contd.

Database/Package Name Coverage in Catalogue (%)

PsycBooks (Ovid) 46

Safari Technical Books 79

SourceOECD 78

SPORTDiscus with Full Text 14SpringerLINK Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology 83

SpringerLINK eBooks - English/International Collection 59SpringerLINK IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 99

SpringerLINK Lecture Notes in Computer Science 98

SpringerLINK Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 93

SpringerLINK Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 100

SpringerLINK Lecture Notes in Mathematics 96

SpringerLINK Lecture Notes in Physics 86

SpringerLINK Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science 86

SpringerLINK Structure & Bonding 66

Database/Package Name Coverage in Catalogue (%)

SpringerLINK Studies in Computational Intelligence 98

SpringerLINK Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 99

SpringerLINK Topics in Organometallic Chemistry 100

SpringerLINK Tracts in Advanced Robotics 96

SpringerLINK Tracts in Modern Physics 63

SpringerLINK Understanding Complex Systems 100

Springer Protocols 100

Springer Series in Optical Sciences 96

Synthesis Collection One 21

Synthesis Collection Two 7Wiley InterScience Online Books - Medical, Veterinary and Health Sciences collection 99

World Bank e-Library 97

Thinking Beyond the Catalogue

•Open link resolvers•A-Z lists•Federated search•Unified discovery platforms•Directing web searches to library

resources from WorldCat and Google Scholar

Driving the Future• Increasing communication between

publishers, vendors, and libraries on:▫Content negotiated▫Metadata standards (establishing and

implementing)▫Complexities of working with multiple platforms

• Increasing consultation and trialing with library clients in developing services and partnerships

• Increasing availability of front list titles in electronic format

Provider-Neutral E-Monograph Record Task Group Report July 30, 2009http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/PN-Final-Report.pdf

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