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Cataloging: Who Knew It Was Community Service?

Cataloging: Who Knew It Was Community Service?. Erin Stalberg, Head, Metadata and Cataloging Laura Abraham, Library Technician, Metadata and Cataloging North Carolina State University Libraries 58 th NCLA Biennial Conference Wednesday, October 7, 2009. What is a Flash Mob?. Goals.

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Cataloging: Who Knew It Was Community Service?

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  1. Cataloging: Who Knew It Was Community Service? • Erin Stalberg, Head, Metadata and Cataloging • Laura Abraham, Library Technician, Metadata and Cataloging North Carolina State University Libraries 58th NCLA Biennial Conference Wednesday, October 7, 2009

  2. What is a Flash Mob?

  3. Goals • to introduce the Metadata & Cataloging staff to Web 2.0 technologies for cataloging and to experiment with the concepts/principles of user created metadata and of tagging v. LCSH • to contribute towards increasing the accessibility of small library collections • to lend our particular expertise to a community service project

  4. Logistics • finding a museum or small library whose materials were uncataloged • free wireless • adequate space • volunteers & laptops • publicity

  5. What is LibraryThing?

  6. LibraryThing helps you create a library-quality catalog of your books. You can do all of them or just what you're reading now. And because everyone catalogs online, they also catalog together. LibraryThing connects people based on the books they share. The Basics

  7. Can scan the item using a barcode reader, type in the ISBN, or just type in the name and author. Get data from Amazon, Library of Congress, or other resources. The Basics

  8. Joel Lane House’s Profile

  9. Joel Lane’s Catalog Clear, accessible way of showing data.

  10. NEW FEATURE: COLLECTIONS

  11. Joel Lane’s Tags Helps display basic contents of work and links to and from similar works

  12. Dueling Tag!

  13. ORGANIZATION TYPES

  14. For collections and individuals who want their library private Privacy Option

  15. Where people can find it, contacts The community it is a part of Can add upcoming events, connect to the public Joel Lane’s Venue Page

  16. Flash Mob!

  17. Free Swag!

  18. Write Ups

  19. Durham’s Central Park School for Children It was so much fun, we decided to do it again! And with more people! http://www.flickr.com/photos/-erin/sets/72157622517667960/

  20. Lessons Learned & Observations • be prepared! • expect chaos (wireless & workflow) • know that people have way more books than they estimate • decide who to use as your record source • expect some amount of original cataloging

  21. Lessons Learned & Observations • Original cataloging • Joel Lane “manual entry”49/239 = 21% • Central Park School “manual entry”24/933 = 3% • Manual entry means that a cataloger did not find copy quickly (usually between LC & Amazon) and entered it into LibraryThing themselves. It does not necessarily mean copy does not exist.

  22. Lessons Learned & Observations • Original cataloging • Joel Lane materials not already in LibraryThing73 books (32% of their collection), including: • Raleigh 1792-1992 : a bicentennial celebration of North Carolina's capital city • A short history : The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, The Delaware Society of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America • North Carolina's state historic sites • Chameleon on the Crabtree: The story of Joel Lane • The Poems of Governor Thomas Burke of North Carolina

  23. Lessons Learned & Observations • Original cataloging • Central Park School materials not already in LibraryThing Far fewer (so few, I stopped looking), but including: • Mother Teresa: A Life of Kindness • Great American Indian leaders: Special Exhibit Catalogue • The great Philadelphia cheesesteak book • And a few picture books in Spanish

  24. Lessons Learned & Observations • figure out in advance what to do about serials/multivolume sets/duplicate copies • database maintenance

  25. http://www.librarything.com/ http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/ http://www.joellane.org/ http://www.centralparkschoolforchildren.org/

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