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Once you acquire thousands e-books, then what?

Once you acquire thousands e-books, then what?. Shi Deng, UC San Diego sdeng@ucsd.edu OCLC CJK User Group Meeting March 24, 2007. You want your patron to access and use them. How? Add to library catalogs? Make A-Z list? Make links? Etc. At what level? Database vs. Individual title?

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Once you acquire thousands e-books, then what?

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  1. Once you acquire thousands e-books, then what? Shi Deng, UC San Diego sdeng@ucsd.edu OCLC CJK User Group Meeting March 24, 2007

  2. You want your patron to access and use them • How?Add to library catalogs? Make A-Z list? Make links? Etc. • At what level? Database vs. Individual title? • Dealing with multi-formats? Single record or Separate record?

  3. Options to provide catalog access to e-books Use Vendor provided MARC records • MARC 21 tag/code validation • 880 matching • Chinese scripts • Pinyin for name and place • Serials vs. Monographs • Multivolume set vs. individual volume • Authority control: e.g. Mark Twain vs. Maketuwen How much manual cleanup you estimate?

  4. Options to provide catalog access to e-books OCLC Collection Sets: shared efforts http://www.oclc.org/worldcatsets/default.htm • Contribute to a collection set to be shared • Agree & follow cataloging standard set with OCLC • Can joined by more than one institution • Reduce redundant work done at each institution level • Depend on Vendor’s package or selection offer

  5. Options to provide catalog access to e-books OCLC WorldCat Selection service http://www.oclc.org/selection/default.htm • Not only for acquisitions and collection development, but for shared cataloging • Single point to take Vendor MARC record • Offer title selection, & possible package selection(?) • Possible combined effort with OCLC Collection Sets for enhance vendor catalog records • Eliminate the redundant process working with a vendor at each institution level

  6. Options to provide catalog access to e-books Batch processing: Batch search OCLC for print using ISBN or title, then create constant data to add to each single record • Process dealing with multiple ed. or hits • Quality of record: description & subject • Catalog standard: pre-AACR2 records • Authority control How much manual cleanup is necessary?

  7. Options to provide catalog access to e-books    Catalog titles one by one: Traditional Method • Workload • Staffing • Budget • Timeline • Prioritizing

  8. Questions? Thank You! sdeng@ucsd.edu

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