manual filing system

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Connecting with UsersConference Highlights
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Willard McCarty Individual matrix, communal
workshop and the living condition of the human
mind
Reader in Humanities Computing, Kings College
London

• Is a library merely an information retrieval
  system?
• Are librarians merely delivery boys/girls?
• A worthwhile librarian is one that privileges
  questioning.
• A librarians purpose is to make knowers, through
  new methodologies.

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Ksenija Obradovic Intrepid traveller the
University of Auckland Library on the e-book
journey
Cataloguing Librarian, The University of Auckland
Library

• 200,000 e-books available through the Library
  catalogue.
• In 2003 and 2004, twice as many e-books were
  catalogued as printed books.
• Problems
• Large number of e-book records makes it
  impractical to carry out bibliographical control.
• Receipt of e-books and bibliographic records for
  them does not necessarily coincide.
• Desirables
• Quality bibliographic records, delivered at the
  same time as the books and which can be uploaded
  in bulk with the least possible effort.
• Would like to be notified when vendors remove
  access to e-books.
• More recommended texts in e-format.
• Standardisation of purchase models, e-book
  formats, and ways of access.

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Ksenija Obradovic Intrepid traveller the
University of Auckland Library on the e-book
journey
Cataloguing Librarian, The University of Auckland
Library
The table shows the number of e-book holdings
created each year in the Library catalogue for
full text e-books.
This compares with 40,000 45,000 bibliographic
records for monographs in all other formats which
are added each year.
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Terry Morrow Introducing Shibboleth in the UK
a progress report
Consultant, Joint Information Systems Committee
(UK)
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Shibboleth Enabled Applications and Services

• ArtSTOR
• Blackboard
• Bodington.org
• CSA
• Darwin Steaming Server
• Digitalbrain Plc
• eAcademy
• EBSCO Publishing
• Elsevier ScienceDirect
• Ex Libris SFX
• Fedora
• Higher Markets
• Hupnet
• ILIAS

• JSTOR
• Moodle
• Napster
• NSDL
• OCLC
• OLAT
• Ovid technologies Inc.
• Proquest Information and Learning
• Serials Solutions
• SYMPA
• Thomson Gale
• TWiki
• Useful Utilities EZproxy
• WebAssign
• WebCT

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Lloyd Sokvitne Rediscovering metadata an
outcomes-oriented approach
Senior Manager (Digital Strategies), State
Library of Tasmania

• Aim
• Provide a web service interface that uses
  aggregated metadata from various sources

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Lloyd Sokvitne Rediscovering metadata an
outcomes-oriented approach
Senior Manager (Digital Strategies), State
Library of Tasmania

• Prototype
• 500,000 OPAC MARC records exported converted to
  a common XML format
• Other records converted (images, etc.)
• XML records indexed via Lucene (5 hrs on desktop
  PC)
• Query screen written
• Findings
• Metadata fields did not sit well together due to
  bad, inconsistent, missing or incorrect data
• The results were only as good as the poorest data
• Recommendations
• Ranking as a key determinant to successful
  information discovery ignored in virtually every
  library system
• Enable faceted browsing, e.g. www.lib.ncsu.edu/cat
  alog/browse.html

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Lloyd Sokvitne Rediscovering metadata an
outcomes-oriented approach
Senior Manager (Digital Strategies), State
Library of Tasmania

• Worth of metadata is measured by worth of
  discovery outcomes.
• How libraries catalogue items are we cataloguing
  for the benefit of the patrons or for the benefit
  of cataloguers?
• Cataloguers are slaves to rules.
• Stop producing unnecessary metadata.
• Better bibliographic services philosophy
  Rethinking How We Provide Bibliographic Services
  for the University of California
  http//libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/
  BSTF/Final.pdf

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Rethinking How We Provide Bibliographic Services
for the University of California
http//libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag
/BSTF/Final.pdf

• If we wish to remain a contender in the
  information marketplace, we need to incorporate
  efficient ways for obtaining, creating, and
  exporting metadata
• Given its prohibitive cost, staff created
  metadata should be applied only when there is
  proven value for current and future scholars...
• Whatever metadata exists in bibliographic systems
  needs to be fully utilized
• Implement FRBR concepts to present related works
  hierarchically, pulling together all records
  related to a particular work.

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FRBR Functional Requirements for Bibliographic
Records
Dr Barbara Tillett (Feb. 2004), The FRBR Model. A
presentation for the FRBR Seminar, Australian
Committee on Cataloguing
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FRBR Functional Requirements for Bibliographic
Records
Dr Barbara Tillett (Feb. 2004), The FRBR Model. A
presentation for the FRBR Seminar, Australian
Committee on Cataloguing
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FRBR Functional Requirements for Bibliographic
Records
Dr Barbara Tillett (Feb. 2004), The FRBR Model. A
presentation for the FRBR Seminar, Australian
Committee on Cataloguing
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Deirdre Kiorgaard Ebe Kartus A rose by any
other name? From AACR2 to Resource Description
Access
Director, Bibliographic Standards, National
Library of Australia (Kiorgaard) Metadata
Coordinator, University of Melbourne (Kartus)

• Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) to be
  superseded by Resource Description and Access
  (RDA)
• AACR2 developed in 1978
• Card catalogues
• Non-GUI OPACS
• MARC still an infant
• Audio-Visual material was the new resource type
• Internet not dreamed of
• Environmental changes
• Digital technologies
• Database technologies
• Resource description not the sole domain of
  library cataloguers
• FRBR FRAR

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Deirdre Kiorgaard Ebe Kartus A rose by any
other name? From AACR2 to Resource Description
Access
Director, Bibliographic Standards, National
Library of Australia (Kiorgaard) Metadata
Coordinator, University of Melbourne (Kartus)

• FRBR
• IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements
  for Bibliographic Records 1998
• Influences structure and terminology of the rules
  and levels of description
• Guides the choice, form and types of access
  points and the relationships
• Allows data recorded in bibliographic records to
  be related to user needs.
• RDA developed by Joint Steering Committee for
  Revision of AACR
• Flexible and extensible to meet the needs of
  cataloguers and non-cataloguers
• Heavily influenced by FRBR
• Recording of data to be functionally independent
  of data discovery mechanisms

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Deirdre Kiorgaard Ebe Kartus A rose by any
other name? From AACR2 to Resource Description
Access
Director, Bibliographic Standards, National
Library of Australia (Kiorgaard) Metadata
Coordinator, University of Melbourne (Kartus)

• RDA Structure and Content
• Part I Description, e.g.
• Part II Relationships, e.g. works and
  expressions will replace uniform titles
• Part III Access Point Control, e.g. authority
  control
• JSC homepage http//www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/
  index.html
• Australian input http//www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrd
  s/grps/acoc/acoc.html
• Timeline
• July 2005 First publication of the prospectus
• Oct. 2005-April. 2006 Completion of draft of
  part I, and constituency review
• May 2006-Sept. 2006 Completion of draft of part
  II, and constituency review
• Oct. 2006-Apr. 2007 Completion of draft of part
  III, and constituency review
• May 2007-Sept. 2007 Completion of General
  Introduction, Appendices, and Glossary
• 2008 Publication of RDA

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Britta Woldering Connecting with users Europe
and multilinguality
Assistant for International Relations to the
Director General, Die Deutsche Bibliothek

• www.theeuropeanlibrary.org

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papers

• Willard McCarty, Individual matrix, communal
  workshop and "the living condition of the human
  mind
• Warwick Cathro, Improving information
  infrastructure recent activities of the National
  Library of Australia
• Ksenija Obradovic, Intrepid traveller the
  University of Auckland Library on the e-book
  journey
• Martin Borchert, Changing user behaviour using a
  digital repository system
• Andrew Treloar and Geoff Payne, The ARROW Project
  after 2 years are we hitting our targets?
• Kevin Bradley, Digital sustainability and digital
  repositories
• Terry Morrow, Introducing Shibboleth in the UK a
  progress report
• Sandy Payette, Choosing technology that can
  evolve with user needs a service-oriented
  approach to e-research, e-scholarship and
  advanced scholarly publication
• Prof. Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, Universal
  Digital Library - connecting users to digital
  contents
• Lloyd Sokvitne, Rediscovering metadata an
  outcomes-oriented approach
• Deidre Kiorgaard and Ebe Kartus, A rose by any
  other name? From AACR2 to Resource Description
  and Access
• Britta Woldering, Connecting with users Europe
  and multilinguality
• Daniel Clancy, Google Book Search Making all the
  world's books fully searchable
• Andrew Treloar, The Monash University Information
  Management Strategy from development to
  implementation
• Sharon Karasmanis, Online Tutorials delivering
  training in VDX Document Delivery to end users -
  on campus, off campus and offshore
• Vinod Chachra, The role of the library as an
  extension of the mind

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Sandy Payette Choosing technology that can
evolve with user needs
Co-Director of the Fedora Project, Researcher at
Cornell Information Science

• The key shift is from software as the prime
  asset, to data as the prime asset.