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Content Creation

Content Creation. Sue Duffy King’s Fund Information & Library Service. Background. King’s Fund - ‘an independent charitable foundation whose goal is to improve health especially in London’. Library stock. 35,000+ books 600+ journals 33,000 abstracts. Library Users. Staff Visitors

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Content Creation

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  1. Content Creation Sue Duffy King’s Fund Information & Library Service

  2. Background • King’s Fund - ‘an independent charitable foundation whose goal is to improve health especially in London’

  3. Library stock • 35,000+ books • 600+ journals • 33,000 abstracts

  4. Library Users • Staff • Visitors • External enquirers

  5. Content Creation • Decision taken to create own records • large amount of grey literature • demand for immediate access to new publications • relatively small, specialised stock

  6. Format changes • Dispensed with almost all MARC punctuation • Changed the order of fields • Created some new fields

  7. MARC punctuation • |c 260 Publication information • |v 440 Series • |u / |z 856 Electronic access

  8. Order of fields • 700 Chairperson after 110 • 520 Abstract after 650

  9. 700 field - Chairperson

  10. 520 field - Abstract

  11. New fields created • 246 Variant title • 652 Geographical location • 773 Journal source

  12. Variant title • 246 field added because many reports acquired colloquial titles which would not otherwise feature in a record. • e.g. The Alder Hey Report, The Wanless Report

  13. 246 field - Variant title

  14. Journal Source Field • 773 field - devised as a standard method of giving information about an abstracted article • also placed out of numerical sequence in the record

  15. 773 field - Journal source

  16. Content standards • Cataloguing guidelines • Authorities • Quality control

  17. Cataloguing guidelines • Written in house • Updated with each system upgrade

  18. Authorities • Use authorities only in 650 field • Authority file is the downloaded HMIC thesaurus

  19. Quality control • Monitored by Technical Services Librarian • Proof read for Current Awareness Bulletin

  20. Recent changes • Electronic links • New item types for electronic formats • Webpubl • Website • E-Abstract

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