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The problems of cataloguing in Higher Education

Jennie-Claire Perry Project Co-ordinator: Collection Management. The problems of cataloguing in Higher Education. Overview. About me The new HE marketplace The cost of cataloguing A dying art? Evolution vs. extinction The value of cataloguers and cataloguing . About me.

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The problems of cataloguing in Higher Education

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  1. Jennie-Claire Perry Project Co-ordinator: Collection Management The problems of cataloguing in Higher Education

  2. Overview • About me • The new HE marketplace • The cost of cataloguing • A dying art? • Evolution vs. extinction • The value of cataloguers and cataloguing

  3. About me • PGDip Information Science UCL 2009 • MCLIP 2011 • Project co-ordinator, University of Kent – June 2012 • Acquisitions & Metadata Librarian – UAL • Assistant A&ML – UAL • Senior Library Assistant (A&M) – Birkbeck • Sotheby’s Institute of Art, KIAD

  4. The traditional disclaimer… • All views are my own, NOT that of the University of Kent or any of my previous institutions. • This presentation is based on one given at CILIP in March 2012 by Robin Armstrong-Viner.

  5. The new HE marketplace • All courses at University of Kent: £9,000 • HEFCE funding cuts • League tables • New global competition

  6. The cost of cataloguing at the University of Kent • £5 – £11 per item in staff costs (Grades 3 – 7) • £100,000 worth of purchased items currently ‘In Processing’ • £128,000 worth of gifts currently not on the catalogue • 17,000 items catalogued in 2010-11 by 5.6 FTE

  7. Is cataloguing a dying art? http://www.unshelved.com/2010-10-11

  8. Is cataloguing a dying art? • Cataloguing from scratch for everything • Spending hours deliberating which MARC field to use • Tweaking already decent records • Manually editing thousands of records in-house • Unnecessary in-house classification schemes

  9. Evolution, NOT extinction! • Macro, not micro cataloguing • Exploit the potential of automating tasks • Collaboration – sharing of best practice • Enhancing the functionality of your LMS • Metadata vs. “traditional” cat & class • Demonstrating how we add value

  10. The value of cataloguers • Finding ways to describe new media and new formats to enable discovery • Working within multiple systems: catalogues, repositories, resource discovery layers, media streaming services, e-resource aggregators… • Using multiple standards and schemas (including MARC, DCRM(b), Dublin Core…)

  11. The value of cataloguing • Increased ease of retrieval • Better management information for the collection • Improved matching and merging of records • Simpler cross-walking of data • Ease of sharing data and services

  12. Contact details j.perry@kent.ac.uk @evil_jen 01227 827 7095

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