Rehabilitating Killer Serials: An Automated Strategy for Maintaining E-journal Metadata

Cornell University Library (CUL) has developed a largely automated method for providing title-level catalog access to electronic journals made available through aggregator packages. CUL\u27s technique for automated e-journal record creation and maintenance relies largely on the conversion of externally supplied metadata into streamlined, abbreviated-level MARC records. Unlike the Cooperative Online Serials Cataloging Program\u27s recently implemented \u27aggregator-neutral\u27 approach to e-journal cataloging, CUL\u27s method involves the creation of a separate bibliographic record for each version of an e-journal title in order to facilitate automated record maintenance. An indexed local field indicates the aggregation to which each title belongs and enables machine manipulation of all the records associated with a specific aggregation. Information encoded in another locally defined field facilitates the identification of all of the library\u27s e-journal titles and allows for the automatic generation of a Web-based title list of e-journals. CUL\u27s approach to providing title-level catalog access to its e-journal aggregations involves a number of tradeoffs in which some elements of traditional bibliographic description (such as subject headings and linking fields) are sacrificed in the interest of timeliness and affordability. URLs and holdings information are updated on a regular basis by use of automated methods that save on staff costs

Collaborative Systems Thinking Research: Exploring Systems Thinking within Teams

This paper describes ongoing research that seeks to develop an empirical basis for collaborative systems thinking, defined as “an emergent behavior of teams resulting from the interactions of team members and utilizing a variety of thinking styles, design processes, tools, and communication media to consider system attributes, interrelationships, context and dynamics towards executing systems design”. This type of thinking is critically important to addressing engineering systems challenges, and the research seeks to inform and enable effective systems engineering practice in contemporary engineering enterprises. Focusing on the aerospace domain, collaborative systems thinking is examined through the alignment of enterprise culture and standard technical processes. This paper draws on a variety of literature to compose a definition of collaborative systems thinking and propose a research agenda going forward

Enriching the Catalog with Table of Contents Data

This is a PDF Web Archive of the website: http://www.library.cornell.edu/staffweb/TOC.html which contains the report "Enriching the Catalog with Table of Contents Data"

Lockheed Martin Federal Systems

Process maturity has been extensively analyzed and codified, and the goal of process maturity has become pervasiv

Regex Rules! Using Regular Expressions with MarcEdit

The half-day, hands-on workshop, prepared by Yael Mandelstam, Jean Pajerek, and Alan Keely, was presented at the 2019 Annual Meetings of the American Association of Law Libraries in Washington, D.C. The workshop covered basic regex concepts using the online regex tester RegExr, followed by five scenarios using regex in MarcEdit (MarcEdit is a free universal library metadata tool, developed by Terry Reese). Related workshop: The Magic of MarcEdi

The Cornell Technical Services Marcive Planning Task Force Report

The Cornell University Library Technical Services Executive Group (TSEG) charged the Cornell Technical Services Marcive Planning Task Force, consisting of Jean Pajerek, Scott Wicks, Greg Lawrence, and Anna Korhonen, to: "Gather information, make recommendations, and develop an implementation plan regarding the content and procedures for implementing a local service that uses bibliographic records from Marcive, Inc. to support retrospective and ongoing government documents made available in a networked, electronic format.

Rehabilitating Killer Serials: An Automated Strategy for Maintaining E-journal Metadata

Cornell University Library (CUL) has developed a largely automated method for providing title-level catalog access to electronic journals made available through aggregator packages. CUL\u27s technique for automated e-journal record creation and maintenance relies largely on the conversion of externally supplied metadata into streamlined, abbreviated-level MARC records. Unlike the Cooperative Online Serials Cataloging Program\u27s recently implemented \u27aggregator-neutral\u27 approach to e-journal cataloging, CUL\u27s method involves the creation of a separate bibliographic record for each version of an e-journal title in order to facilitate automated record maintenance. An indexed local field indicates the aggregation to which each title belongs and enables machine manipulation of all the records associated with a specific aggregation. Information encoded in another locally defined field facilitates the identification of all of the library\u27s e-journal titles and allows for the automatic generation of a Web-based title list of e-journals. CUL\u27s approach to providing title-level catalog access to its e-journal aggregations involves a number of tradeoffs in which some elements of traditional bibliographic description (such as subject headings and linking fields) are sacrificed in the interest of timeliness and affordability. URLs and holdings information are updated on a regular basis by use of automated methods that save on staff costs

Rehabilitating Killer Serials: An Automated Strategy for Maintaining E-journal Metadata

Cornell University Library (CUL) has developed a largely automated method for providing title-level catalog access to electronic journals made available through aggregator packages. CUL\u27s technique for automated e-journal record creation and maintenance relies largely on the conversion of externally supplied metadata into streamlined, abbreviated-level MARC records. Unlike the Cooperative Online Serials Cataloging Program\u27s recently implemented \u27aggregator-neutral\u27 approach to e-journal cataloging, CUL\u27s method involves the creation of a separate bibliographic record for each version of an e-journal title in order to facilitate automated record maintenance. An indexed local field indicates the aggregation to which each title belongs and enables machine manipulation of all the records associated with a specific aggregation. Information encoded in another locally defined field facilitates the identification of all of the library\u27s e-journal titles and allows for the automatic generation of a Web-based title list of e-journals. CUL\u27s approach to providing title-level catalog access to its e-journal aggregations involves a number of tradeoffs in which some elements of traditional bibliographic description (such as subject headings and linking fields) are sacrificed in the interest of timeliness and affordability. URLs and holdings information are updated on a regular basis by use of automated methods that save on staff costs

E-Journal Maintenance Task Force: Preliminary Report

This is a PDF Web Archive of http://www.library.cornell.edu/staffweb/TSEG/e-journalPrelimReport41.htmlIn July 2002, the Electronic Journal Maintenance Task Force (David Banush (chair), Bill Kara, Jean Pajerek and Scott Wicks) received a three-part charge from the Technical Services Executive Group (TSEG.) From mid-July through late September, Task Force members met with CUL staff in Technical Services, Collection Development, and Library Administration to gather data on current and historical e-journal cataloging practices, determine the incoming flow of e-journal bibliographic data, and to consider the needs of collection development and administration in e-journal identification and tracking

E-Journal Maintenance Task Force: Final Report (4/03)

This is a report that investigates new strategies for e-journal maintenance at CUL