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Tech. Services>Metadata
What We Do
MARC-based Metadata Department at SUL/AIR
are distributed among a number of Technical Services processing
units, and some of SUL/AIR's branch libraries for those materials.
In a streamlined process, the Acquisitions Department receives all
materials, and catalogs the majority of them, making use of vendor
services wherever possible. Refer to fiscal the
incoming flowchart PDF's for specifics. The Metadata Department provides access for
those materials that are unique or difficult to catalog. The Department
also helps to plan processing of large
collections (purchased or gift), which cannot be accommodated
within the normal Acquisitions workflow. In addition, we also catalog
all electronic resources and serials, as well as most multimedia
materials. We provide cataloging in all languages except Arabic
languages for Green Library and the branches . We catalog serials,
Slavic and Hebrew materials for the Department of Special Collections.
Other special collection, music, map and archival cataloging is
done in other divisions. In addition to providing cataloging, we
provide database management of SUL's on-line catalog, including
export, import and maintenance of records. Since the fall of 2000,
we have provided metadata
services in support of SUL/AIR's Digital
Library Program and Academic
Computing.
The goals of the Metadata Department is to:
- Advocate, provide and maintain intellectual access to SUL/AIR's collections through SOCRATES, the online catalog
- Advocate, provide and maintain metadata discovery and retrieval for the Libraries' rapidly growing digital collections. SUL/AIR is implementing a digital assets management system (Artesia's TEAMS) as a foundation for managing digital resources
- Accomplish this work within our existing resources
- Process current incoming materials and data immediately - no backlogs
- Advocate and assure quality of our products and services
- Provide planning support to collection development for collection processing.
- Commit, as resources allow, to cooperative cataloging programs such as PCC, whose BIBCO, NACO and SACO standards are followed as a default for all original monographic cataloging
- Partner with and make use of emerging vendor services
- Accomplish all of the above by recruiting and developing an elite professional and paraprofessional staff, with strong language, subject and technical backgrounds, as well as knowledge of standards and best practices
- Refresh and renew staff through a continuous process improvement model, tapping colleagues at Stanford and in other institutions
For questions about the Metadata Department, please contact Department Head Philip Schreur (650) 723-2454
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October 8, 2008 |
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