Advances in Librarianship,Vol. 28

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This quarter’s column reports on sessions from the Charleston Conference, held in Charleston, SC, November 6–10, 2017.     

An Interview with Jean Hirons,CONSER Coordinator

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Jean Hirons, Cooperative Online Serials (CONSER) Coordinator, retired June 30 from the Library of Congress after a career of over thirty years in libraries. Jean plans to begin a new career as a pastel painter. I spoke to Jean in May 2003 to get her views on CONSER's role in developing standards for cataloging electronic resources. Serials Review 2003; 29:233–236.     

On the moment generating functions for integer valued random variables

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In this note, we give explicit expressions of moment generating functions for integer valued random variables in both univariate and multivariate cases, which extend the results obtained by Nadarajah and Mitov [Communications in Statistics–Theory and Methods, 32, 2003, 47–60] and more recently by Chakraborti, Jardim and Epprecht [The American Statistician, 2017], Kwong and Nadarajah [Communications in Statistics–Theory and Methods, 2017]. Some examples are also discussed.     

Managing Serials in an Institutional Repository: An Interview With Kay Teel

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In this interview from March 2017, Kay Teel, metadata librarian for serials and arts resources at the Stanford University Libraries, discusses the issues involved in providing access to serials through an institutional repository.     

CONSER Editing Guide

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The 2011 American Library Association conference took place June 23–28 at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. This report summarizes several programs and forums including the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Continuing Resources Section, Electronic Resources Interest Group program; Holdings Forum: Universal and Repurposed Holdings Information: Emerging Initiatives and Projects; the RDA Update Forum; and the Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Update Forum.     

Leveraging Vendor Assessments of Usage Data

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This article summarizes a presentation given at the 2017 North Carolina Serials Conference by Judith Nagata. The speaker discussed how her library used vendor-supplied usage data and graphic representations of that data to make decisions about journals and journal packages.     

Reviews and Notices

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Labor Statistics: Twentieth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor. Horace G. Wadlin, Chief. December, 1889. Boston. Pp. xxv, 694. Reviewed by Frank S. Hathaway.

The United States Census Bulletins: No. 6. August 4, 1890. Financial Condition of Counties. By T. Campbell-Copeland. Pp. 26.

The United States Census Bulletins: No. 7. Aug. 6, 1890. Indebtedness of States in 1880 and 1890. By T. K. Upton. Pp. 4.

The United States Census Bulletins: No. 8. Aug. 8, 1890. Production of Slate. By William C. Day. Pp. 10.

The United States Census Bulletins: No. 9. Aug. 20, 1890. Production of Pig Iron. By Dr. Wm. M. Sweet. Pp. 8.

The United States Census Bulletins: No. 10. Aug. 22, 1890. Quicksilver Mines and Reduction Works. By T. B. Randall.

The United States Census Bulletins: No. 11. August 23, 1890. Growth of Rapid Travel Facilities from 1880 to 1889, inclusive, in cities having over 50,000 inhabitants. By Henry C. Adams. Pp. 8.

The United States Census Bulletins: No. 12. Oct. 30, 1890. Population of the United States and Territories: 1890. By Robert P. Porter. Pp. 8.

The United States Census Bulletins: No. 13. Oct. 31, 1890. Production of Steel. By Dr. William M. Sweet. Pp. 7.

The United States Census Bulletins: No. 14. Nov. 4, 1890. Financial Condition of Municipalities. By T. Campbell-Copeland. Pp. 67.

The United States Census Bulletins: No. 15. Nov. 7, 1890. The Census of Alaska. By Ivan Petroff. Pp. 6.

Statistical Report of Interstate Commerce Commission: Second Annual Report on the Statistics of Railways in the United States to the Interstate Commerce Commission, for the year ending June 30, 1890. Henry C. Adams, Statistician.

Banks and Banking: Garland's Banks, Bankers, and Banking in Canada, to which has been added statistics of the Dominion. Edited by N. Surrey Garland. Ottawa. Mortimer & Co. 1890. Pp. xxiii, 328.

Banks and Banking: Annual Report of the Inspector of Finance, showing the condition of the Savings Bank and Trust Companies in Vermont on June 30, 1890. Pp. 223.

Banks and Banking: The Clearing-House System. By Dudley P. Bailey. Reprinted from the Bankers' Magazine. Homans Publishing Co. New York. 1890. Pp. 57.

The English Mint Report: Twentieth Annual Report of the Deputy Master of the Mint, 1889; with a general index to the annual reports from 1870 to 1889 inclusive. London. 1890. Pp. 136, xi.

Local Finance and Taxation: Report of the Tax Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the year ending Dec. 31, 1889. Pub. Doc. 1890. Pp. 299. Reviewed by William Z. Ripley

Local Finance and Taxation: Report of the Special Tax Commission of Maine, appointed under resolve of the Legislature, March 8, 1889. Augusta. 1890. Pp. 192. Reviewed by William Z. Ripley

Local Finance and Taxation: Finance Annual Report of the Executive Department of the City of Boston, for the year 1889–90. Boston. 1890. Pp. 416. Reviewed by William Z. Ripley

Local Finance and Taxation: Report of the Special Committee on use of Streets by Private Corporations. Boston. City Document 144. Sept. 8, 1890. Pp. 35. Reviewed by William Z. Ripley

Problems of Population: Marriage Rates and Marriage Ages, with special reference to the growth of population. By Dr. William Ogle. In Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (London), June, 1890. Pp. 253–289. Reviewed by Davis R. Dewey.

Problems of Population: Twenty-first Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts. Boston. 1890. Pp. 457. Reviewed by Davis R. Dewey.

Minor Notices: A Preliminary report on the cost of production. Pig iron, steel ingots, steel rails, coal, coke, iron ore, and limestone. By the Commissioner of Labor. Washington. 1890. Pp. 61.

Minor Notices: Some Experiments on behalf of the Unemployed. By Amos G. Warner, Ph.D. In Quarterly Journal of Economics. October, 1890.     

Don't Be Frightened: It's Just a Backlog of Government Documents Serials Records

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This article summarizes the presentation by Elisabeth Garner at the 26th annual North Carolina Serials Conference in 2017. Garner described the workflow she developed to reconcile previously cataloged government document serial records with newly updated U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) catalog records from MARCIVE, Inc., through the Cataloging Record Distribution Program (CRDP).     

Serials Spoken Here

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This quarter's column features a report from the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (OVGTSL), held May 15–17, 2013, in Richmond, KY; the 29th Annual North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Conference, held June 5–9, 2013, in Buffalo, NY, including a separate report on the June 6 RDA &; Serials preconference; and, the American Library Association's Annual Conference, held June 27–July 2, 2013, in Chicago, IL.     

IFLA Library Reference Model,RDA, and Serials in a Nutshell

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IFLA Library Reference Model (IFLA LRM) represents the consolidation of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and the two other conceptual models of the Functional Requirements (FR) family, the Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) and the Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD). IFLA LRM includes a specific section (5.8) devoted to serials. The RDA Steering Committee adopted IFLA LRM as the conceptual model for the development of RDA in November 2016. The 3R (RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign) Project’s purpose is partly to make RDA compatible with the IFLA LRM. A beta version of the English-language content of the RDA Toolkit, which incorporates the IFLA LRM, was released in June 2018. This column explores, in lay terms, serials in relation to the IFLA LRM and the RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign (3R) Project. The beta version of the restructured and redesigned RDA Toolkit introduces several new concepts relating to serials.     

NISO Webinar: The Future of Integrated Library Systems: Part 1: RDA & Cataloging

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This column's offerings cover late spring through summer to fall of 2011: NISO Webinar: The Future of Integrated Library Systems: Part 1: RDA & Cataloging (May 11); American Library Association Annual Conference (June 23–28); Association of College and Research Libraries New England Serials and Electronic Resources Interest Group Summer Program: Current Trends in E-Journals (August 18); Kentucky Library Association/Kentucky School Media Association Joint Conference (September 28–October 1); American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (October 9–12); Great Lakes E-Summit Conference (October 10–11); and Potomac Technical Processing Librarians Annual Meeting (October 21).     

Reviews and Notices

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Reports of Health and Vital Statistics: Indiana. Ninth Annual Report of the State Board of Health for the fiscal year ending October 31, 1891; and Annual Report of the Bureau of Vital and Sanitary Statistics. Indianapolis, 1891. Reviewed by Gary N. Calkins.

Reports of Health and Vital Statistics: Kansas. Fifth Annual Report of the State Board of Health, ending December 31, 1889. Topeka, 1890. Reviewed by Gary N. Calkins.

Reports of Health and Vital Statistics: Massachusetts. Twenty-Second Annual Report of the State Board of Health. Boston, 1891. Reviewed by Gary N. Calkins.

Reports of Health and Vital Statistics: Michigan. Seventeenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Health for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889. Lansing, 1890. Reviewed by Gary N. Calkins.

Reports of Health and Vital Statistics: New Hampshire. Tenth Annual Report relating to the Registration and Returns of Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths, for the year 1889. Manchester, 1891. Reviewed by Gary N. Calkins.

Reports of Health and Vital Statistics: New Jersey. Thirteenth Annual Report of the Board of Health, and Report of the Bureau of Vital Statistics. Camden, 1889. Reviewed by Gary N. Calkins.

Reports of Health and Vital Statistics: New York. Eleventh Annual Report of the State Board of Health. Volumes I, II. Albany, 1891. Reviewed by Gary N. Calkins.

Reports of Health and Vital Statistics: North Carolina. Third Biennial Report of the Board of Health for the years 1889 and 1890. Raleigh, 1891. Reviewed by Gary N. Calkins.

Reports of Health and Vital Statistics: Ontario. Report relating to the Registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths for the year ending December 31, 1889. Toronto, 1890. Reviewed by Gary N. Calkins.

Reports of Health and Vital Statistics: Ontario. Ninth Annual Report of the Provincial Board of Health for the year 1890. Toronto. 1891. Reviewed by Gary N. Calkins.

Reports of Health and Vital Statistics: Wisconsin. Thirteenth Report of the State Board of Health, 1889–90. Madison, 1891. Reviewed by Gary N. Calkins.

Reports of Health and Vital Statistics: New York City. Annual Report of the Board of Health of the Health Department for the year ending December 31, 1890. New York, 1891. Reviewed by Gary N. Calkins.

Statistics of Pauperism in Hartford: Report of the Special Committee on Out-door Alms of the Town of Hartford, 1891. Hartford. The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company. 1891. Pp. lxxi, 93. Reviewed by A. G. Warner.

Comparison of Movement of Population in Prussia and France: The following is based upon material published in the Zeitschrift des Königes Preussischen Statistischen Bureaus. 1891. Nos. 1–2. Reviewed by F. C. Norton.

Suicides in Prussia and Italy: The following paragraphs are taken from the Zeitschrift des Kön. Preus. Stat. Bureaus, 1891, Nos. 1–2. Reviewed by F. C. Holmes.

Anthropometric Statistics: Thirtieth Annual Report of the Professor of Hygiene and Physical Education of Amherst College. 1891. Pp. 20. Map. Reviewed by R. Waterman, Jr.

The Census of Berlin: Einstweilige Ergebrisse der Volkszählung vom 1. December, 1890, in der Stadt Berlin. Veröffentlicht vom Statistischen Amt der Stadt. 1891. Pp. 64.

Statistics of Vaccination: Neue Beiträge zur Frage des Impfschutzes. Zweite Beobachtungsserie, 1887–88. Von Josef Körösi, Director des Budapester Communal-statistischen Bureaus. Berlin, 1891.

Statistical Articles in Magazines and Journals: Journal de la Société de Statistique de Paris. April, 1891. ÉAtude sur les placements faits a l'étranger par les differents peuples. By M. Georges Martin. Reviewed by William Z. Ripley.

Journal des Economistes. Sept., 1891. The Progress of Paper Money. By E. Fournier de Flaix. Reviewed by William Z. Ripley.

Revue d'Économie Politique. May, June, 1891.Une statistique des mariages. By Prof. Harald Westergaard. Reviewed by William Z. Ripley.

Revue d'Hygiène. November 20, 1891. De la Morbidité et la Mortalité par Professions. By Dr. Jacques Bertillon. Reviewed by Gary N. Calkins.

The Archiv für Eisenbahnwesen. August, 1891. Prozentbarechnung über den Personenverkehr. Reviewed by Victor Rosewater.

Conrad's Jahrbuch. July, 1891. Die Ergebnisse der Konkursstatistik. By Dr. A. Wirminghaus.

Frauenarbeit. By Prof. Stieda.

Archiv für soziale Gesetzgebnng und Statistik. IV, No. 2, 1891. Neuere Untersuchungen uber die Lage der arbeitenden Klassen in Holland. By Dr. Otto Pringsheim.

Zeitschrift des K. Sachsischen Statistischen Bureaus. 1890. Nos. 3–4. Dresden, August, 1891.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. London. June, 1891.

Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. Sept., 1891. The Congested Districts. By Richard J. Kelly.

The Economic Review. October, 1891. London.

Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society. 1890–91.

The Fortnightly Review. December. The Canadian Census. By J. G. Colmer.

The Charity Organization Review. London. December, 1891. Character and development of the German Labor Colonies, from the opening of the first colony in 1882 to 1889. By Dr. Berthold.     

No Satisfaction? But We Try,and We Try,and We Try!

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When Old Dominion University Libraries conducted the LibQUAL+ survey in 2015, results indicated a lack of satisfaction in effectively discovering and using our electronic resources. This article is based on a presentation from the 2017 North Carolina Serials Conference describing how Old Dominion University Libraries used data from the LibQUAL+ survey results to help our users connect more effectively with information resources, resulting in an improved user experience and an increased level of satisfaction.     

Beyond Google: Bibliographic Transformation to Connect Users to Good Content

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At the 2017 North Carolina Serials Conference, keynote speaker Regina Romano Reynolds—Director, U.S. ISSN Center and Head, ISSN Section at the Library of Congress—explored how bibliographic transformation can connect users to good-quality content. Offering examples of current and potential serials management projects, Reynolds shared her vision for breaking down information silos, experimenting in the resource management space, and the need for visionary leadership.