Facing Our E-Demons: The Challenges of E-Serial Management in a Large Academic Library

As electronic serials have shifted from being the exception to the norm, libraries are becoming increasingly reliant on knowledge base-driven systems to help manage electronic serial holdings. In 2011, the University of Toronto Libraries migrated its electronic resource holdings from a local database to a commercial electronic resource management (ERM) system. With two years of experience using a commercial ERM system, the presenters endeavored to analyze how the library is coping with e-serial management within this new environment. This study reveals many of the benefits and pitfalls of managing electronic journals within a knowledge base–driven system and highlights the need for greater standardization within the data supply chain, better communication with publishers and knowledge base providers, and increased collaboration to improve the e-resource management process.     

Implementing a personalized resource management program for a small medical library by using LinkOut

End users want easy access to electronic full-text articles from their desktops. This small medical library has implemented an easy and cost-effective resource management program to meet this user need. This column will describe the implementation, use, and maintenance of the National Library of Medicine's LinkOut, a personalized resource management program that provides immediate access to the library's online journal full-text holdings via hyperlinks.     

MarcEdit在MARC数据库质量管理中的应用

由于图书馆形势的转变,原有的书目记录与当前的需要产生了矛盾,由此MARC数据库的质量管理被提上了日程。MarcEdit是一款适用于MARC编辑的批处理工具,具有数据有效性统计、字段核对、内容替换、字段和子字段编辑、指示符编辑及字段交换等功能,操作简便、功能强大,可提高工作人员对MARC数据库的质量管理能力。     

Recent Developments in Union Listing and Interlibrary Loan

Union listing of serials on OCLC can bring about an increase in interlibrary loan and turn-around time when implemented at a university library. Formerly accessible as a subsystem of OCLC, union listing is now available on Connexion Browser as MARC 21 holdings data. Immediately following a batch load of OCLC union listing records at medium-sized Louisiana university library, it was found that lending requests sent to the library were up 10% for all materials and up 13% for serials. An increase in borrower requests from patrons at the library was also observed when interlibrary loan request buttons were inserted into citation entries found on EBSCO host university databases.     

MARC21馆藏数据格式在期刊馆藏揭示中的应用与思考-以北京大学UNICORN系统为例

以UNICORN系统中期刊馆藏的揭示工作为主题,通过对MARC21馆藏数据格式的研究,重点探讨了北京大学图书馆遵循MARC21馆藏数据格式对期刊馆藏复杂多变的情况进行处理的办法:为已有现刊收登记录的期刊添加866字段过刊馆藏、为没有现刊收登记录的期刊添加852和866字段过刊馆藏、充分使用852字段的子字段为分藏在不同地点的期刊添加过刊馆藏等。其中也介绍了国内其他图书馆的一些做法。     

当代图书馆的文献信息资源管理及资产评估

论述了当代图书馆文献信息资源管理的特点，包括建立综合化服务工作模式、形成自己的信息数据库、网上和非网上文献信息整序共存、进行集成管理和网络系统管理等。提出当代图书馆应从提高馆藏质量和利用率、处理好版权和传播知识之间的关系方面提高图书馆文献信息资产的社会效益；应建立新的资产评估指标以导引高校图书馆向现代化发展。     

SCS及其对纸质馆藏绩效评估和价值分析的意义

[目的/意义]数字化的出现,给整个图书馆行业带来了巨大冲击和挑战。科学开展纸质馆藏管理工作,对于馆藏资源结构的调整、特色资源挖掘、电子图书建设、图书经费的节省起着关键作用。我国图书馆正经历资源重组的变革,借鉴国外图书馆管理工作中的经验与做法,有助于推动我国图书馆纸质馆藏的管理。[方法/过程]通过梳理OCLC官网信息及纸质馆藏可持续收集服务(SCS)具体服务案例,从基本概况、服务要素、服务流程等方面对SCS进行分析性介绍。[结果/结论]SCS借助GreenGlass软件,通过数据建模和数据可视化分析等手段,利用数据驱动管理纸质馆藏,可以为图书馆用户提供更加完善的纸质馆藏解决方案,指出纸质馆藏现状和发展趋势。其在数据采集及数据分析方面的经验可在服务流程、管理标准、软件开发等方面,为我国图书馆纸质馆藏管理工作提供有益的参考。     

Re-Envisioning E-Resource Holdings Management

For e-resource librarians, maintaining e-book and e-journal holdings within electronic resource management systems is a labor intensive and often manual process. In 2014, with the aim of saving library staff valuable time and effort, the Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) launched a service to provide automated holdings management within the WorldCat knowledgebase. For a select group of content providers, including some of the largest e-book aggregators, holdings information can be populated and updated automatically within the knowledgebase without intervention from library staff. At the University of Toronto Libraries, we conducted a study to assess the accuracy and efficiency of these automated holdings management services. This presentation outlines the results of the study and provides suggestions for further improvement to the current services offered.     

Dealing with Serial Title Changes:

This paper proposes a way to program the online catalog to retrieve and display together related serial records, by using the current accepted practice of successive entry cataloging and those MARC bibliographic fields unique to a successive entry record. The underlying theme to the discussion is that the cataloging record alone need not always bear the burden of explaining itself to the user; in fact, the online catalog with its menu options and displays can and should provide a useful structure within itself, a structure essential to the effective use of any library catalog.     

MARC发展问题研究

本根据数字图书馆的建设需要，探讨了利用XML技术对MARC进行重新描述的必要性，在此基础上，对基于XML的MARC信息描述进行了尝试性的研究，提出了XML MARC的概念，给出了XML MARC的档类型定义，设计了MARC到XML MARC的转化算法，从而解决了应用XML MARC首先需要解决的问题，其研究成果对MARC数据在数字图书馆中的利用问题具有重要的意义。     

Reclassification and documentation in talog cards and a computer stored record

A project to recatalog and reclassify the book collection of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine Library utilizing the Magnetic Tape/Selectric Typwriter system for simultaneous catalog card production and computer stored data acquisition marks the beginning of eventual computerization of all library operations. A keyboard optical display system will be added by late 1970. Major input operations requiring the creation of "hard copy" will continue via the MTST system. Updating, editing and retrieval operations as well as input without hard copy production will be done through the "on-line" keyboard optical display system. Once the library's first data bank, the book catalog, has been established the computer may be consulted directly for library holdings from any optical display terminal throughout the medical center. Three basic information retrieval operations may be carried out through "on-line" optical display terminals. Output options include the reproduction of part or all of a given document, or the generation of statistical data, which are derived from two Acquisition Code lines. The creation of a central bibliographic record of Bowman Gray Faculty publications patterned after the cataloging program is presently under way. The cataloging and computer storage of serial holdings records will begin after completion of the reclassification project. All acquisitions added to the collection since October 1967 are computer-stored and fully retrievable. Reclassification of older titles will be completed in early 1971.     

The ILS as Outreach: Cataloging Campus Partner Collections

Although libraries tend to see the integrated library system (ILS) as a very “library” system, it is actually a powerful inventory and patron management system that can be used much more broadly. At American University, the library has many campus partner collections that it has added to the library catalog. Some collections contain books and media, like traditional library holdings, and some are made up of audiovisual and computer equipment. This article describes the process of cataloging these collections, the challenges of conceiving the ILS as a campus-wide system, and the benefits that these partnerships have brought to the library.     

MARC数据转换为XML文档的设计与实现

针对广泛存在于图书馆系统中的MARC格式的大量书目数据，分析了MARC的数据结构，定义了DTD，进行了MARC-XML系统转换设计，并以河南理工大学图书馆为例，实现了MARC数据到XML文档的转换，使得面向WWW的MARC信息提供成为可能。本文的研究对当前数字图书馆建设具有重要意义。     

Points of convergence: seamless long-term access to digital publications and archival records at library and archives Canada

In 2004, Canada’s national library and national archives merged to form Library and Archives Canada (LAC). LAC has become more than the sum of its parts, creating synergies between library and archives collections and services, realizing efficiencies and satisfying user demands for seamless access to all holdings. LAC has already created and launched Fed Search, an online search tool that provides clients with single-search access to library, archives and online collections. LAC is in the process of building a Trusted Digital Repository that will combine ingest, preservation, management and dissemination services for archives and library collections.     

关于在我国实施图书馆行业管理制度的理论思考

根据我国社会主义市场经济体制进一步纵深发展所提出的转变政府职能的要求,认为在我国实施图书馆行业管理制度是大势所趋。图书馆行业管理制度,是在政府有关部门的政策指导和监督下,以图书馆行业协会为行业内部事务的管理主体,赋予图书馆协会以规划、协调、规范、监督、服务等职权,对图书馆行业内的事务进行自主管理的体制安排。政府部门和图书馆协会作为图书馆行业管理的"双主体",两者之间必须形成互补性的分工与合作关系。国外的图书馆行业协会有明确的职能定位,在行业管理中起到了不可或缺的主体作用。借鉴国外的经验和做法,在我国培育和建立图书馆行业协会组织,是在我国实施图书馆行业管理制度的必备条件之一。     

复制权例外对图书馆数字资源长期保存的影响剖析

选取英国、美国和澳大利亚当前的数字资源长期保存活动为分析案例,研究这三个国家可适用于图书馆的著作权例外在图书馆数字资源长期保存方面的应用,剖析其存在的不协调性。指出数字资源的长期保存由于以下原因更需要图书馆享有合理的复制权例外：数字资源的保存需要多份复制件;数字资源长期保存中出现的软硬件老化;难以预见的老化;数字资源的生命周期与虚拟传播;数字资源保存需要建立一种动态的管理机制;数字资源长期保存需要采取联盟的方式实施。     

试论馆藏知识向现实生产力转化的基本条件

从馆藏知识商品化和资本化,馆藏的网络化市场化经营与管理,促进知识资本与人力资本、物质资本或货币资本相结合,以及知识生产与人力生产和物质生产相结合五个方面,分析实现馆藏知识向现实生产力转化的主要条件。     

On Our Own: Starting an Interlibrary Loan Service From Scratch

In August 2009, the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Medical Library opened its doors to students, faculty, and staff. One of the many challenges before opening the library was developing a unique and autonomous interlibrary loan service for its patrons. This article examines the decisions in choosing the best document delivery system, the management of funds, and the selection of holdings for a new medical library. Along with these decisions, there is discussion on the significance of costs, turnaround times, and challenges going forward.     

Review of “Ithaka S+R US Library Survey 2013,” by Matthew P. Long and Roger C. Schonfeld

Factors affecting the role and development of academic and research libraries during the more immediate future are discussed. Consideration is given to the advancement and improvement of library service in the context of access to information and materials, and the reliance on resource sharing through cooperation of an informal nature and through networks. Implications are outlined: specifically, the resulting importance of document delivery, the effects on collection growth and management and on the relationship of the academic library with its parent body and with other libraries. Recommendations are made for increased access to library holdings through distributed networks, the improvement of interlibrary loan, the implementation of cooperative collection management, a reappraisal of collection evaluation criteria, and the appropriate ritualization of management skills and technology.