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Item Are we there yet? Electronic Resources Discovery in WorldCat(2020-06-26) Bradley, Benjamin; Guay, Beth; Hemsley, Erica; Wilson, Aaron; Reiss, RobinIn 2012 the UMD Libraries began implementing WorldShare Collection Manager to manage the Libraries’ electronic collections and to make them accessible in the Libraries’ discovery system, WorldCat UMD. The panel will discuss how our understanding of WorldCat Discovery (WCD) informs our work to make the Libraries' resources available to students, faculty, staff, and others who rely on OCLC catalog records for library resource discovery. Our discussion will: provide background information on WCD; discuss its advantages and disadvantages; highlight cross-departmental collaboration and workflows; and finally, discuss new work in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, in particular, work to implement the HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service, and to make undiscoverable and important electronic resources, such as the Adam Matthew Digital American Indian Histories and Cultures collection discoverable and accessible.Item A Case Study on the Path to Resource Discovery(Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), 2017-09) Guay, BethA meeting in April 2015 explored the potential withdrawal of valuable collections of microfilm held by the University of Maryland, College Park Libraries. This resulted in a project to identify OCLC record numbers (OCN) for addition to OCLC’s Chadwyck-Healey Early English Books Online (EEBO) KBART file.[i] Initially, the project was an attempt to adapt cataloging workflows to a new environment in which the copy cataloging of e-resources takes place within discovery system tools rather than traditional cataloging utilities and MARC record set or individual record downloads into online catalogs. In the course of the project, it was discovered that the microfilm and e-version bibliographic records contained metadata which had not been utilized by OCLC to improve its link resolution and discovery services for digitized versions of the microfilm resources. This metadata may be advantageous to OCLC and to others in their work to transition from MARC to linked data on the Semantic Web. With MARC record field indexing and linked data implementations, this collection and others could better support scholarly research.Item Cataloging Early English Books Online in WorldCat Discovery(2018-06-24) Guay, BethIn late 2015, the University of Maryland Libraries initiated a cataloging project designed to ensure the discoverability of equivalent e-versions of its 5,062 cataloged microfilm resources in the series, Early English books, 1475-1640, and hoped to follow with its 41,306 resources in the Early English books, 1641-1700 series. The e-versions are held in ProQuest’s Early English Books Online (EEBO) collection. The project began as an attempt to adapt cataloging workflows to an environment in which e-resources copy cataloging takes place within discovery system tools rather than MARC record set or individual record downloads into online catalogs. The presentation considers EEBO’s relationship to scholarship and to cooperative cataloging; offers recommendations for maximizing WorldCat bibliographic metadata to improve resource discovery; and opens a dialogue to extend cooperative cataloging of EEBO resources beyond traditional lines.Item EEBO in WorldCat Discovery(2018-06-14) Guay, BethThe presentation provides a descriptive overview of the UM Libraries' Early English Books Online (EEBO) cataloging project described in "A Case Study on the Path to Resource Discovery," in Information Technology and Libraries, 36:3 (2017). The project began as an attempt to adapt cataloging workflows to the new environment in which e-resources copy cataloging takes place within discovery system tools rather than MARC record set or individual record downloads into online catalog. The presentation covers EEBO’s relationship to scholarship and to cooperative cataloging. The presenter offers recommendations for maximizing existing bibliographic metadata to improve resource discovery and to open a dialogue with a goal to extend cooperative cataloging of EEBO resources beyond traditional lines.Item Management of E-Resources Cataloging Workflows at the University of Maryland, College Park(Journal of Library Innovation, 2014) Guay, Beth; Bloch Shapiro, Rachel; King, DonnaIn 2011, one of the authors, a staff member of the Metadata Services Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, created an electronic resources cataloging management database (ERCM) to manage the details of MARC record set loads to the online catalog. After attending the NISO Standards update session entitled “The NISO ERM Data Standards and Best Practices Review” presentation at the 2012 Annual Conference of the American Library Association, at which cataloging workflow support was referred to as a problem area in electronic resources management, she decided to follow up with an investigation of the nature of the problem and to explore its relevancy to the ERCM. This article will inform metadata services departments about the management of constantly changing electronic resources cataloging workflows and also discuss cataloging workflow as it pertains to Electronic Resources Management System (ERMS) development.Item Outsourcing Cataloging at the University of Maryland, College Park: Problems and Opportunities(Against the Grain, 2020-01) Bradley, Benjamin; Guay, BethFor the University of Maryland Libraries, a major outsourcing initiative began in late 2011 following an earlier implementation of WorldCat Local as a discovery tool: the transitioning from MARC record set loads of electronic resources collections into the local catalog to e-resource collection activations in the WorldCat knowledge base ending with the adoption of WorldCat Discovery and link resolver in July 2015, resulting in a highly automated and outsourced environment. During this time, e-resource cataloging processes shifted as the responsible units underwent a hand-full of reorganizations resulting in, as of April 2017, the formation of four units within Collections Services (formerly known as Technical Services): Acquisitions and Data Services, Continuing Resources and Database Management, Discovery and Metadata Services, and Original and Special Collections Cataloging. This latter reorganization brought relief with the creation of a new Discovery Librarian position. During these transitions, e-resource maintenance remained a constant challenge for personnel across unit lines. We have found, however, that with new skills brought by the Discovery Librarian such as programming and data-manipulation added to old-fashioned competencies, such as communication skills, institutional memory, and a good sense of humor, the challenges have become manageable, and may even offer new opportunities.Item Recipe for E-Resources Discovery - ALA CORE Catalog Management Interest Group Presentation-July 27 2021(2021-07-27) Guay, BethThe presentation's recipe for library e-resources discovery is ascertained from 30 years of cataloging experience that includes 20 years of e-resources cataloging specialization and nearly 10 years of WorldCat Discovery experience (disclaimer: all years’ experience are rounded out to nice numbers). The presenter covers the recipe ingredients as she visits (1) analytics in a proprietary database, (2) a collection of Open Access eBooks, and (3) distinctive titles in a monographic series.Item Study of the Libraries’ Information and Research Services(2011-09-26) Luckert, Yelena; Todd, Cindy; Zdravkovska, Nevenka; Guay, Beth; Hammett, Kevin; Henry, Stephan; Langholt, Joscelyn; Markowitz, Judy; Negro, ToniIn spring 2011 Public Services Division Mangers charged the Information and Research Services Team (IRST) to analyze and make recommendations for service improvement for all areas of Information and Research Services. IRST conducted surveys, interviews, literature review and an environmental scan of University of Maryland Libraries and other institutions in order to assess and evaluate the current information services situation and collect information for the following recommendation. In the ‘Considerations’ and ‘Recommendations’ sections, IRST identified the following areas that need to be modified: staffing, technology and physical spaces. The appendices section of this report contains the charge and a summary of findings.Item The University of Maryland Libraries WikiProject: Challenges and Delights(2023-06-08) Hovde, Sarah; Doherty, Jennifer; Philips, Rigby; Guay, BethIn June 2020, members of what is now the Cataloging & Metadata Services team launched a project to begin exploring Wikidata, a free and open knowledge base of structured data. Over the next two and a half years, almost two dozen participants created and edited 1,492 Wikidata items related to 1,294 collections from SCUA and SCPA. In the process, UMD's Wikidata editors got to know our special collections, explored a linked data interface, and made library resources more discoverable by users on the open web. This panel features four project participants, who will provide an introduction to the editing project and share some of the challenges, delights, and historical backstories they discovered while working on Wikidata.