I’m
kind of doing this with volunteers – I created a list of
subject terms (not LOC – it was too hard!) and then
volunteers with a knowledge of a particular subject area
(such as railways, geology, electrical engineering,
chemistry) have been pencilling subject codes into the books
before I check and validate the catalogue record. It’s a
great way to use the huge amount of subject knowledge that
they have and speed up my work. I simply can’t have a
detailed background in all those areas, and there’s only me
so I would never have time to develop it to the extent they
have.
I
control the terms they can add from a central list, but they
can request extra ones if they can explain why the existing
ones do not cover it!
Jennie
I agree. Although subject headings should
remain, I think that tagging has its place. I work in a legal
deposit library where we get material on every subject. Some
items are just so technical (thinking maths and science books)
that I would have no idea where to start with subject
headings.
Maybe in these circumstances, doing a bit of crowd sourcing
would be a good idea? The mathematics student would know what
the book is about and how his peers are likely to search for
it. I think tagging would help in this kind of situation.
On 29/03/2012 11:07, Nicky Ransom wrote:
I
am constantly being told by subject librarians that students
don’t understand LCSH and they don’t use those terms to
search for resources, so perhaps allowing them to add their
own terms might be a useful addition to the catalogue. It
certainly wouldn’t replace ‘proper’ subject terms, I don’t
think, but it would add another layer to the catalogue data.
Nicky
Ransom
Data
Quality Manager & Cataloguer
University
for the Creative Arts
I'm
beginning to think we should put our department cataloguing
manual into a wiki - its currently just in word format and
needs overhauling anyway. It would be good to be able to add
all those extra bits that come up throughout the year into
one place.
Re
social tagging in catalogues - we are just implementing
Primo (NOT my favourite thing, but never mind), I think
there is a facility in it to allow users to tag books etc.
I must admit I have my concerns about what kinds of tags
will be used, lack of consistency, etc. Our records already
have subject headings on them using controlled vocabularies,
do they really need random tags? Or am I just being an
old-fashioned fuddy duddy? Do students want to embrace
their own tags and ignore our headings?
Karen
Dr
Karen F. Pierce
Cataloguing Librarian
Cardiff University Information Services
1st Floor, McKenzie House
30-36 Newport Road
Cardiff
CF24 0DE
http://darksideofthecatalogue.wordpress.com/
http://scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/
From:
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Date:
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10:57
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Yes, I was wondering if a small team would really need a wiki
but with so much detailed knowledge that none of us learned in
library school (or somewhere else) and that isn't in some
edition (print or web) of AACR, Dewey etc. I expect to find it
useful - esp. for that things that only come round once a
year.
On the topic of social tagging in catalogues: apart from the
need for critical mass there's also the question whether to
moderate these things or maybe a weighted way of ratings e.g.
give staff or lecturers or leaders/members of a reading group
more weights. After all we're information curators not just
aggregators.
Esther
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Datum: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:41:21 +0100
Von: Tabitha Driver <[log in to unmask]>
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Good morning from someone else who silently enjoyed
yesterday's discussion and helpful summary.
Benefits of a wiki format for manuals etc seem great. We don't
use them at my library, because of the small number of staff,
but for a larger organisation, the collaborative character of
a wiki, combined with version control would be ideal. You'd
still need editorial control though - which is what concerns
me about social tagging in smallish catalogues (not much abt
that yesterday?).
Tabitha Driver
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