The Read Feed: Reviews

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Michelle DeMars reviews Academic Libraries for Commuter Students: Research-Based Strategies. Hayley Moreno reviews Coding with XML for Efficiencies in Cataloging and Metadata: Practical Applications of XSD, XSLT, and XQuery.     

图书馆书目数据差错情况分析及应对措施

书目数据库的质量是实现图书馆现代化、网络化的基础,本文结合本馆建库实际,分析了原始编目和套录编目中出现的各种差错情况,并提出了相应措施。     

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.     

采用汇文系统实现统编工作的探索

统一编目工作是促进图书馆业务工作自动化与标准化的重要技术,笔者从采用汇文系统进行统编工作的实践尝试中,探讨了统编工作中存在的一些实际问题,并提出了解决方案.     

Serials Clutter in Online Catalogs

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Finding and deciphering serials records in online catalogs is a challenge to many library users. To understand and analyze these challenges, the author conducted searches for scientific journal titles in the online catalogs of Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) libraries. The first part of the study measures the difficulty of retrieving serial records from online catalogs comparing one-word versus multiple-word titles. The second part analyzes displays for complexity by measuring the length of the complete record and the length of the holdings statements. These data show the complexity of displays and indicate the potential confusion that these displays may induce in library users.     

对随书光盘编目与管理的探讨

现行出版的图书所附电子文献资源越来越多，国家的相关标准滞后，导致光盘的著录存在许多问题，其利用率又极低。针对这一情况，探讨了随书光盘著录的相关字段、规范格式，使计算机编目更能反映光盘的信息。并且提出了光盘上网的管理模式，按照《著作权法》中的“合理使用”原则，避免光盘上网所带来的侵权问题。为实现网络资源共享奠定了基础，同时也提高了光盘的利用率。     

Tedious: feminized labor in machine-readable cataloging

This essay examines previously unexplored IBM reports and manuals that document the development of Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) in the 1960s to understand gendered assumptions manufacturers made about the labor of information retrieval and to ultimately discuss the ways in which MARC transformed the feminized labor of information, making it more diffuse and shifting expectations about productivity. In the process, this essay will show that cataloging, like other forms of women’s labor transformed by technology in the latter part of the twentieth century, has a complicated relationship to the market labor and industrialization. Finally, this essay ends by connecting MARC and feminized labor to the contemporary discussion of BIBFRAME.     

Still Partners After All These Years: Ulrich's and ISSN

Since 2000, an Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (Ulrich's) employee has been located in the Library of Congress's U.S. ISSN Center at the Library of Congress to assign ISSN and create records for both Ulrich's and the international ISSN Register/CONSER database. How this arrangement came about, how it has succeeded over the past ten years, and the broad potential for this partnership becoming a model in both organizations for future automated data sharing and data linking is the subject of this article.     

网络环境下的图书馆编目工作探索

本文针对图书馆编目工作发展的趋势,提出了编目工作新的意义和内容,以及编目员专业知识建设、心理素质建设等问题的新认识。     

A New Direction for Library Technical Services: Using Metadata Skills to Improve User Accessibility

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An increased awareness about the importance of resource accessibility for all library users has set the stage for transforming traditional cataloger roles into a new realm of possibility. The Acquisitions & Discovery (A&D) and the User Experience (UX) departments of North Carolina State University Libraries have formed a partnership to explore the benefits of working together amidst this climate of innovation and change. A pilot project was created to develop a workflow through which technical services staff can use their metadata skills to help resolve accessibility issues found on the Libraries’ main website. By performing this work, staff can grow in technical expertise, enhance the quality of metadata in web content, and build mutually beneficial partnerships within the library community.