Hello Pippa,
Thanks for your posting.
Firstly to respond on the KBART guidelines - the KBART Recommended Practice is specifically looking at holdings metadata supply to link resolver knowledge bases rather than bibliographic metadata. However, there are some areas of crossover which may help libraries in keeping some information current and accurate in the catalogue and link resolver knowledge base. In particular, supply chain take-up of the KBART Recommended Practice will help keep the e-journal coverage statement up to date which is a source of much manual administration currently.
I also speak on behalf of a library which has SFX and MARCIt export to our catalogue. We anticipate that if e-journal coverage statements and URLs are more accurate in the link resolver knowledge base as a result of improvements in metadata supply to link resolver KBs, then our export of the records using SFX MarcIt into our library catalogue will also be more accurate. At University of Birmingham, we currently use SFX as our main access point to e-journals. However, by exporting to the library catalogue we try to keep the 2 systems in sync. This is easier said than done at the moment though as the files aren't directly usable with our library management system and require some manual work to import monthly updates.
We don't do any manual e-journal cataloguing.
Best Wishes
Sarah
Co-chair KBART Working Group
Sarah Pearson
E-Resources & Serials Coordinator
Library Services
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
UK
B15 2TT
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excuse my ignorance, but would implementation of the KBART guidelines
make things any easier for librarians?
<<<KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools), a working group
established by UKSG aned NISO in January 2008, have provided a list of
practical recommendations for the exchange of accurate metadata
between content providers, knowledge base developers and libraries.>>>
see www.uksg.org/kbart
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2010/1/18 Ray Delahunty <[log in to unmask]>:
> Good afternoon Sharon-
>
> Here at University of the Arts London we don't manually catalogue any of the 10,000 ejournals we subscribe to. Nor do we use MARCit.
>
> What I do is take an export of the XML data from SFX, dump it into MARC via MarcEdit and tidy it up, adding punctuation and generally cleaning up the data and getting it as near to MARC21 as I can. Currently I am doing an overlay every couple of months. I keep promising to do it monthly...
>
> As regards the rationale for continuing to include ejournals in our library catalogue, that's an interesting point. There's various opinions on whether there is any point in adding e-journal records to an OPAC... some folk like it, other can't see the point. I don't think it does any harm and the data work only takes a couple of hours work- it's a "cheap and cheerful" way to get the data into the catalogue.
>
> I do hope this is of some interest. Here are some records on our Voyager system (they aren't too pretty, as SFX doesn't give me lots of data to begin with):
>
> http://voyager.arts.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=377274
> http://voyager.arts.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=377105
>
>
> Ray.
>
> Ray Delahunty
> Assistant Library Systems Manager
> University of the Arts London
> http://www.arts.ac.uk
> http://voyager.arts.ac.uk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sharon Robinson
> Sent: 18 January 2010 11:22 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] Ejournal cataloguing
>
> We are looking at our ejournal cataloguing policy. We currently manually
> catalogue both individual ejournal subscriptions and ejournals which come as a
> part of large packages, but are finding this difficult to sustain. It would be
> useful to hear of other libraries' experiences. I am happy to summarise for the
> list.
>
> 1. Does your institution manually catalogue both its individual ejournal
> subscriptions and ejournals which come as a part of large packages?
>
> 2. Do you use MARCit or a similar product?
>
> 3. Have there been any downsides from using MARCit, for example, in terms of
> reduced searchability of your catalogue?
>
> 4. If you answered yes to either of questions 1 or 2, what is your rationale for
> continuing to include ejournals in your library catalogue, rather than rely on
> the A-Z list of a product such as SFX?
>
> 5. Has anyone decided to abandon the cataloguing of ejournals (with perhaps
> the exception of individual subscriptions) in favour of the A-Z list in SFX (or
> similar product)?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Sharon
>
> Sharon Robinson
> Electronic Resources Advisor
> Edinburgh Napier University
> Craiglockhart Campus
> Edinburgh EH14 1DJ
>
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