Record added/Page created: leveraging name authority work to highlight women in book history

Presentation given virtually at the Symposium on Women/Gender Minorities in Print/Publishing in the 20th Century (Stanford University, July 17, 2019), discussing the representation of women in book history through library name authority files and open knowledge bases such as Wikipedia and Wikidata

Best Practices for Cataloging Objects Using RDA and MARC 21

This best practices document is intended to assist catalogers in creating bibliographic records for objects, which RDA refers to as three dimensional forms, according to RDA instructions. This document provides guidance for the most common object situations encountered in libraries. Each section includes examples that reflect the RDA instructions. A list of resources and a selection of full MARC record examples illustrating common situations encountered in cataloging objects (of various types) completes the document. The Objects Task Force especially worked on the examples to provide a variety of materials that fall bibliographically under Objects. The Task Force found at least one example of Realia, Toy, Model, Art Original, Game, Microscope Slide, Diorama, and Tactile Three-Dimensional Form. This document is intended for use with Resource Description and Access (RDA) and the MARC21 Format for Bibliographic Data. This document does not replace the use of RDA, but it works in tandem with RDA to provide best practices guidance in cataloging objects. This document is also not a step-by-step guide on how to catalog objects. The best practice recommendations and cataloging examples presented in the document are intended to clarify RDA principles and instructions used in cataloging objects. These guidelines assume some familiarity with RDA. Subject analysis is not fully covered in this best practices guide. Classification is not covered. Name and topical subject access points, as well as genre/form information, are not covered fully in this document, although we do provide a section to discuss access points on a very practical level, and certainly, they do appear in the MARC record examples

Volume 42, Number 4, December 2022 OLAC Newsletter

Digitized December 2022 issue of the OLAC Newsletter

Volume 43, Number 3, September 2023 OLAC Newsletter

Digitized September 2023 issue of the OLAC Newsletter

Volume 43, Number 1, March 2023 OLAC Newsletter

Digitized March 2023 issue of the OLAC Newsletter

Review of Stauffer, Andrew M.. Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library

Review of Andrew M. Stauffer. Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021

How to catalog 100,000 playbills (give or take a few thousand)

Presentation given at the Digital & Archival Approaches to Theater History conference (Philadelphia, January 2019), providing an overview of a retrospective conversion and cataloging project undertaken between 2016 and 2019 to provide catalog access to playbill collections in the Folger Shakespeare Library

When is an Author Not an Author? Non-human and Fictional Creators under LRM, RDA, and Other Cataloging Standards

Presentation given at SHARP 2023 virtual conference.Generative processes have captured the public attention in recent years, from the fever dream images of early neural nets to the more recent proliferation of chatbots and language models. In the world of cataloging, a 2021 post on the PCCLIST cataloging listserv about a book "co-authored" by a transformer language model led to an almost week-long discussion over whether the AI was truly an author or just a tool. But generative texts are not new, and catalogers are no strangers to determining who counts as an author: the question of whether non-humans, including animals and fictional characters, can author a work of literature has been a topic of intense deliberation as the cataloging world moves toward the implementation of the Official RDA Toolkit, a cataloging standard based on the Library Reference Model (LRM). The LRM holds that fictional characters, and non-human entities more broadly, cannot be Persons or Agents (and for good measure, that fictional places cannot be Places); however, catalogers are still faced with books written by mouse detectives, starship captains, ghosts, Muppets, and presidential pets. How does a cataloger balance faithfully describing an item as it represents itself with following the rules? Who counts as an author? This presentation will examine the ways that non-human creators are credited in catalog records, looking at the connections between fictional and animal authorship, automatic writing, computer-generated texts, and more. What is a tool, what is a process, and what is an author - at least, according to modern cataloging standards

Refusing to be 'the Women’s Question'. Embodied practices of feminist intervention at the European Social Forum 2003

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The Position of Library-Based Data Services: What Funding Data Can Tell Us

Poster presented at Research Data Access & Preservation Summit 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, April 4-5, 2013.As academic research libraries develop services to support data management and curation, understanding the demand from researchers for new services and establishing parameters for pilot projects are key challenges for managers. Data about proposals and awards for research funding provide evidence about the potential scale, scope, and institutional location of research and data production. Information obtained from funding data can complement and contextualize insights obtained directly from individual researchers about their data management needs. This poster reports on an analysis of funding data conducted by librarians at the University of Maryland, College Park. The authors aimed to discover what funding data can tell librarians about the demand for data management support and the potential challenges for library-based services. The authors also sought to understand the limitations of funding data as a source of information