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Jennie-Claire Perry Project Co-ordinator: Collection Management. The problems of cataloguing in Higher Education. Overview. About me The new HE marketplace The cost of cataloguing A dying art? Evolution vs. extinction The value of cataloguers and cataloguing . About me. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The problems of cataloguing in Higher Education
Jennie-Claire Perry
Project Co-ordinator: Collection Management
Overview
• About me
• The new HE marketplace
• The cost of cataloguing
• A dying art?
• Evolution vs. extinction
• The value of cataloguers and cataloguing
About me
• PGDip Information Science UCL 2009• MCLIP 2011
• Project co-ordinator, University of Kent – June 2012
• Acquisitions & Metadata Librarian – UAL • Assistant A&ML – UAL• Senior Library Assistant (A&M) – Birkbeck• Sotheby’s Institute of Art, KIAD
The traditional disclaimer…
• All views are my own, NOT that of the
University of Kent or any of my previous
institutions.
• This presentation is based on one given at
CILIP in March 2012 by Robin Armstrong-Viner.
The new HE marketplace
• All courses at
University of Kent:
£9,000
• HEFCE funding cuts
• League tables
• New global
competition
The cost of cataloguing at the University of Kent
• £5 – £11 per item in staff costs (Grades 3 – 7)
• £100,000 worth of purchased items currently ‘In Processing’
• £128,000 worth of gifts currently not on the catalogue
• 17,000 items catalogued in 2010-11 by 5.6 FTE
Is cataloguing a dying art?
http://www.unshelved.com/2010-10-11
Is cataloguing a dying art?
• Cataloguing from scratch for everything
• Spending hours deliberating which MARC field
to use
• Tweaking already decent records
• Manually editing thousands of records in-house
• Unnecessary in-house classification schemes
Evolution, NOT extinction!
• Macro, not micro cataloguing
• Exploit the potential of automating tasks
• Collaboration – sharing of best practice
• Enhancing the functionality of your LMS
• Metadata vs. “traditional” cat & class
• Demonstrating how we add value
The value of cataloguers
• Finding ways to describe new media and new
formats to enable discovery
• Working within multiple systems: catalogues,
repositories, resource discovery layers, media
streaming services, e-resource aggregators…
• Using multiple standards and schemas
(including MARC, DCRM(b), Dublin Core…)
The value of cataloguing
• Increased ease of retrieval
• Better management information for the
collection
• Improved matching and merging of records
• Simpler cross-walking of data
• Ease of sharing data and services