E-book Cataloging Using the WorldCat KnowledgeBase
1. E-book Cataloging Using the
WorldCat Knowledge Base
Sarah Haight Sanabria
Electronic Resources Cataloger
Southern Methodist University
2. Institutional background
Voyager – Summon library
895,597 e-book records in catalog
Includes 12,793 Demand Driven Acquisitions titles
740,659 records in the catalog for the main circulating
locations in our main, science, and arts libraries (over 3
million volumes total)
Sarah Haight Sanabria, Electronic Resources Cataloger 11/7/2012
3. MARC Record management for electronic
materials
Use vendors to the extent possible
Consolidate and use as few as possible
Enhance records when possible
Plan for these before loading:
Unique identifiers
Authorities
Ways to retrieve the set
Sarah Haight Sanabria, Electronic Resources Cataloger 11/7/2012
4. Looking on the bright side…
This is a temporary problem
We are moving to a future where knowledgebases and
catalogs are better integrated and workflows can become
more automated
There will be less local record loading
Until then…
We don’t need perfect workflows to manage this
We need something to give our users current data and that
causes minimal staff headaches
Sarah Haight Sanabria, Electronic Resources Cataloger 11/7/2012
5. Preparing for the future
Tools: record services attached to knowledgebases
Local: record quality policies that are informed by the
possibilities and limitations of bulk loading
Sarah Haight Sanabria, Electronic Resources Cataloger 11/7/2012
6. WorldCat KnowledgeBase
Can use regardless of ILS/discovery layer
Source of MARC records from OCLC
Can use for any kind of collection – vendor-created or
locally-created
Can use for any kind of material
E-books, e-journals
Streaming media
Etc.
Sarah Haight Sanabria, Electronic Resources Cataloger 11/7/2012
7. Implementing the WorldCat KnowledgeBase
MARC records
Start small – select a single collection
Ideally, a collection not being adequately managed
Compare the records you get to:
What you already have for the collection
What you have for similar items
Sarah Haight Sanabria, Electronic Resources Cataloger 11/7/2012
8. Thank you!
Sarah Haight Sanabria
shaight@smu.edu
214-768-3646
Sarah Haight Sanabria, Electronic Resources Cataloger 11/7/2012
Notas do Editor
But even with the best strategy, it gets overwhelming with records coming from multiple sources at variable times.
Currently, batch loading fills the gap between KBs and catalogs. In the future, we’ll be able to say we have something, and the records will appear in our discovery interface, without intervention on our part.
What tools and processes can we implement now that will help with the temporary pain we feel now and set us up to move successfully to the future?
Using a small collection helps.We won’t be fully implemented until provisional records are provided.