Twenty-first Century Metadata Operations: Challenges, Opportunities, Directions - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415689694 ISBN 13: 9780415689694

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

It has long been apparent to academic library administrators that the current technical services operations within libraries need to be redirected and refocused in terms of both format priorities and human resources. A number of developments and directions have made this reorganization imperative, many of which have been accelerated by the current economic crisis. All of the chapters detail some aspect of technical services reorganization due to downsizing and/or reallocation of human resources, retooling professional and support staff in higher level duties and/or non-MARC metadata, "value-added" metadata opportunities, outsourcing redundant activities, and shifting resources from analog to digital object organization and description.

This book will assist both catalogers and library administrators with concrete examples of moving technical services operations and personnel from the analog to the digital environment.

This book was published as a special double issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.

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About the Author

Bradford Lee Eden is Associate University Librarian for Technical Services and Scholarly Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is editor of OCLC Systems & Services: Digial Library Perspectives International and The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances, has masters and PhD degrees in musicology, and publishes on metadata, technical services, medieval music and liturgy, and J.R.R. Tolkein studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415689694
• ISBN 13: 9780415689694
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 154
• Editor: Lee Eden Bradford