Twenty-first Century Metadata Operations: Challenges, Opportunities, Directions

by Lee Eden; Bradford

• ISBN13: 9780415689694
• ISBN10: 0415689694
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

It has long been apparent to academic library administrators that the current technical services operations within libraries need to be redirected and refocused in terms of both format priorities and human resources. A number of developments and directions have made this reorganization imperative, many of which have been accelerated by the current economic crisis. All of the chapters detail some aspect of technical services reorganization due to downsizing and/or reallocation of human resources, retooling professional and support staff in higher level duties and/or non-MARC metadata, "value-added" metadata opportunities, outsourcing redundant activities, and shifting resources from analog to digital object organization and description. This book will assist both catalogers and library administrators with concrete examples of moving technical services operations and personnel from the analog to the digital environment. This book was published as a special issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Twenty-first Century Metadata Operations: Challenges, Opportunities, Directions	p. 1
Agile Cataloging: Starring and Skills for a Bibliographic Future	p. 5
Sharing Cataloging Expertise: Options for Libraries to Share Their Skilled Catalogers with Other Libraries	p. 24
Integrating Metadata Creation into Catalog Workflow	p. 40
The Expansion of Cataloging to Cover the Digital Object Landscape	p. 50
Re-Visioning Technical Services: A Unique Opportunity to Examine the Past, Access the Present, and Create a Better Future	p. 60
Using the Balanced Scorecard for Strategic Operation of the Cataloging Department	p. 71
Relevance Recognized: Value-Added Cataloging for Departmental and Digital Collections	p. 84
What's in a Name?	p. 101
Integrating Enhance and NACO Work into Pre-Professional Experiences: A Successful Strategy for All	p. 109
The Cello Music Cataloger as Program Builder	p. 133
Index	p. 144
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