CCS Cataloging Norms Interest Group (CNIG)
Saturday, July 11, 2009, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Chicago Hilton, Continental C

Four presentations and discussions "for the exploration, communication, and exchange of ideas and best practices on the dynamics of cataloging/metadata norms and workflows in the hybrid environment."

Title: Beyond the OPAC: Creating Different Interfaces for Specialized Collections in an ILS System (20 minutes)
Presenter: Sai Deng, Metadata Catalog Librarian, Wichita State University Libraries, Wichita Kansas.

    Description: This presentation will discuss the speaker?s experiment of creating featured websites from specialized data in Voyager ILS such as faculty author books, leisure reading, new book lists and local Art Museum collection. These websites can be seamlessly integrated into public programming events and library instruction sessions to introduce local authors, featured collections and resources in a specific area. The websites of Faculty Research Publications and Women?s Studies Video Resources at Wichita State University will be showcased. The speaker will also discuss the model used to create the websites: selecting data from Oracle database, presenting SQL query results, and creating the websites using web programming for browsing and search. The option of transforming data from MARC to DC will also be discussed. This model can be applied to different sets of data by slightly modifying the query, the programming and the web appearance. Some features of public websites such as linking each record back to OPAC, adding RSS feeds, Syndetic and other cover images to the websites will be addressed. Finally, the speaker will discuss disintegration of library data versus integration of library data and the pros and cons of each method.

Title: Cataloging Art and Cultural Works in Library Collections (20 minutes)
Presenter: Elizabeth O'Keefe, Director of Collection Information Systems, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, N.Y.
    Description: Works of art and material culture are found in almost every library collection, in the form of portraits of founders or donors, artwork donated for decorative purposes, or cultural objects in collections of papers acquired by the library. There are usually too few objects to justify the creation of a separate database; in any case, a separate database complicates collection management and fragments access.

    The best way to provide access to these objects is to document them in the main library catalog. In doing so, librarians will find it helpful to look beyond rules designed for cataloging textual and/or published material, and to seek guidance from descriptive conventions developed by other metadata communities. In particular, Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images (CCO) is an invaluable source for the choice and formulation of information appropriate for the description of art and cultural works. The presenter will describe how the Morgan Library & Museum applies CCO as a supplement to library data standards such as AACR, DCRM, Betz, etc. when creating MARC records for art and cultural objects in its Voyager library system, and how these records are repurposed as metadata for Web-accessible digital images.

Questions/Discussion (10 minutes)

Title: The eXtensible Catalog's Metadata Services Toolkit: Lowering the Bar for Automated Metadata Processing (20 minutes)
Presenter: Jennifer Bowen, Director of Metadata Management, Co-Principal Investigator, eXtensible Catalog Project, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.
    Description: Libraries are struggling with the challenges of integrating metadata from a variety of sources: MARC catalog data; metadata from institutional repositories, digital projects, and course management systems, into their web discovery interfaces. Combining such disparate metadata as part of a library workflow will require easy-to-use tools for automated processing of metadata to correct, enrich, transform, and aggregate metadata from these disparate sources.

    The eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project is developing an open-source platform that will enable libraries to easily accomplish these tasks. The XC Metadata Services Toolkit (MST) enables the processing of metadata in any XML schema using pluggable services, automatically handles updated records, enables the scheduling of a variety of services, and makes the updated metadata available for harvesting by other applications. The MST offers an ideal platform for experimenting with new emerging schemas and standards, such as RDA. This presentation will describe the MST and its services, and the importance of this tool for libraries. It will also include a demonstration of the latest version of the MST, which is currently being developed.

Title: Better, Faster, Stronger: Integrating Archives Processing and Technical Services (20 minutes)
Presenters: Betty Meagher, Head, Metadata & Materials Processing, Penrose Library, University of Denver, Colorado and
Kate Crowe, Interim Archives Processing Librarian, Penrose Library, University of Denver, Colorado.

    Description: Archival processing and library technical services are both undergoing radical changes in an attempt to stay relevant in an increasingly digital world. Archives have struggled to shift their focus from cataloging at the collection-level to deeper, more granular access to archival materials to meet increasing user demands for digital access to individual collection objects, while library technical services have begun to look for new activities as processing non-unique print resources becomes less of a focus. The archival community's issues are compounded by the fact that both metadata standards (EAD) and content standards (DACS) are geared toward the collection, rather than to the items in the collection. Archival professionals have traditionally viewed each collection, and each metadata record about each collection, as unique in and of itself. This artisanal approach has limited the archives' ability to extend processing to the deeper level of detail required to make digital access to collection materials possible.

    In contrast, library technical services have traditionally used streamlined and automated workflows for processing and the aggregation of content at the item level though subject terms as an organizing principle of access.

    In an era of shrinking budgets, reduced staffing, and the need for units to show their value to the larger organization, this presentation will show how one library and archives saw these challenges as an opportunity to fully integrate archives processing into its technical services unit and develop a hybrid form of processing that respects the traditions of both disciplines while creating more user-focused metadata and access tools.

Questions/Discussion + Wrap Up (10 minutes)


Adrienne A. Aluzzo                         Birdie MacLennan
Metadata Librarian                          Director, Resource
                                                       Description & Analysis
Wayne State University                  University of Vermont
Work: (313) 577-6439                    Work:  (802) 656-2016
E-mail: bb4892@wayne.edu            E-mail: bmaclenn@uvm.edu

     Co-Chairs ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Interest Group