Outsourcing Experiences @ University of Nevada, Reno

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Outsourcing Experiences _at_ University of Nevada,
Reno

• NLA CONFERENCE
• October 4, 2007
• Carson City, Nevada
• Vicki Toy Smith
• University of Nevada, Reno

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Vendor considerations

• Vendors are willing to work with customers to set
  up profiles
• Profiles can be changed
• Best to consider options/desired outcomes during
  initial stages of planning
• Shelf-ready programs beneficial

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Outsourcing possibilities

• Bibliographic records can be purchased
• Shelf ready programs for collection development
• Authority control can be outsourced through
  vendors
• Recon and/or reclassification projects can be
  outsourced
• Metadata/digitization outsourcing available

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Need to examine departmental procedures prior to
outsourcing

• Look at departmental needs
• Talk to other vendors offering same services
• Examine cost and manpower
• Balance quality and quantity
• Investigate local network and workflow issues
• Examine problem identification and resolution
  following record loads

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One outsourcing venue

• Yankee Book Peddler is the vendor for UNRs
  popular book collection
• YBP is the vendor for UNRs Juvenile collection
  (prize winning books)
• UNR has a shelf-ready profile set up with YBP
• www.ybp.com/

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Shelf ready outsourcing

• Blackwell provides UNR with a shelf-ready
  collection development program
• Profiles are coordinated with BNA representative
  and subject bibliographers
• Variety of disciplines covered in the shelf-ready
  program

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Enhancement of OPAC records

• Blackwell enhances OPAC records with tables of
  contents
• BNA also enhances our records with summary notes
• BNAs enhancement service is used for newly
  added print monographs
• www.blackwell.com/

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Electronic resources

• MARC records are purchased for some electronic
  books and other electronic resources
• Books 24 x 7--MARC records are loaded into the
  online catalog
• UNR provides file of deleted records to vendor
  www.books24x7.com/
• CRC Press books www.crcpress.com/
• NetLibrary books are purchased by UNR and
  bibliographic records are obtained from OCLC
  www.oclc.org/
• Rand publications www.rand.org/

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Electronic resources

• Some electronic resources are available for free
• Staff needs to check designated vendors websites
  for new electronic resources to add to online
  catalog
• California e-books www.californiaebooks.com/
• Some California e-books not free

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Serials Outsourcing

• A-Z list outsourcing available from various
  vendors
• Serials Solutions provides A-Z lists MARC
  records for specific collections
• EBSCO also provides A-Z lists
• UNR creates its own A-Z lists uses Serials
  Solutions MARC records
• www.serialssolutions.com/

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Authority Control Outsourcing

• Vendors such as MARCIVE provide authority control
  for libraries
• MARCIVE does authority control on names and
  subjects (LC and Mesh) for UNR
• UNR sends new bibliographic records on a monthly
  basis to MARCIVE
• Vendor follows up with new authority records
  (sent electronically to UNR)
• UNR has found it easy to update bibliographic
  records through MARCIVE
• UNR handles its own series authority control

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Cover images for OPAC

• UNR has switched to Amazon for cover images in
  the online catalog
• No cost to purchase cover images with Amazon
• Araby Greene changed WWW options in INNOPAC to
  add cover images to UNRs online catalog
• www.amazon.com/

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Recon project outsourcing

• UNR has used Backstage for a Dewey recon/reclass
  project and an LC recon project
• UNR provided vendor with shelflist cards
• Backstage supplied MARC records
• Follow-up was a consideration on selecting
• www.bslw.com/

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Digitization/metadata outsourcing possibilities

• Digitization/metadata projects are a
  consideration for some libraries
• There is an technical services process to scan
  and OCR items for the Basque Studies Department
• Lister Technologies provides content digitization
  and metadata extraction storage of digital
  content and metadata
• Lister Technologies has guaranteed 99.995
  accuracy in digitization
• www.listertechnologies.com/

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One final note Thank you to UNR colleagues

• Lou Amestoy
• Betsy Dixon
• Araby Greene
• Linda Perry
• Livi Sullivan
• Paoshan Yue

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Thank you!

• Vicki Toy Smith,
• Principal Cataloger
• University of Nevada, Reno
• vicki_at_unr.edu
• www2.library.unr.edu/vicki/