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The Macro Challenges of Microformats: A Tale of Deaccessioning and Digitization
1. The Macro Challenges of
Microformats
A Tale of Deaccessioning & Digitization
Sarah McClung
Head of Collection Development, University of California, San Francisco
Chris Freeland
Director of Open Libraries, Internet Archive
2. Presentation Overview
● UCSF & the Library
● The decision to relocate and deaccession UCSF
microforms
● UCSF & Internet Archive’s partnership to increase access
● Internet Archive & Open Library
3. UCSF & the Library
● Graduate level, health sciences only campus
● 3,114 students
● 6,264 academic staff & faculty
● As of 2017, the Library has:
○ 1,195,444 volumes (all formats)
○ 566,331 ebooks
○ 64,283 serial titles (all formats)
4. UCSF Microformats
● Size of collection: over 12,500 cataloged items
○ Microfiche, microfilm, micro-opaque
● No operational microformat readers for over a decade
● Space was slated for repurposing by Special Collections &
Archives
5. UCSF Microformat Deaccessioning
Hiccups:
● Unreliable metadata = inventory issues & made some items
ineligible for sending offsite
● Shared purchase agreements = consortial taskforce
End result:
● 25% of microforms sent to offsite storage facility
● 75% deemed duplicative of existing UCSF & UC holdings
6. UCSF Partners with Internet Archive
● Duplicates donated to Internet Archive for digitizing
● Long term partners
22. Want to participate?
We’ll take one of anything we don’t already have.
1. Check our serials list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18gO0mriGLMhKEWVSYEa-
YruwMZKUod2dOZdSdtY3l5U/edit#gid=371429385
2. Contact Chris Freeland:
chrisfreeland@archive.org
23. The Macro Challenges of Microformats
A Tale of Deaccessioning and Digitization
Sarah McClung, sarah.mcclung@ucsf.edu
Head of Collection Development, University of California, San Francisco
Chris Freeland, chrisfreeland@archive.org
Director of Open Libraries, Internet Archive
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