Transcript LET ME SEE THAT EBOOK: Managing Cataloguing and Access through Collaboration

LET ME SEE THAT EBOOK: Managing
Cataloguing and Access through
Collaboration
Aaron Wood
Metadata Librarian
University of Calgary
Jim Shetler
Vice President, Library Technical Services
YBP Library Services
Anne Harris
Director of Partner Relations
ebrary, Inc.
Aron Wolf
Data Acquisitions Editor
Serials Solutions
XXIX Annual Charleston Conference
November 7, 2009
University of Calgary’s ebook activity:
• Over 130 databases with ebook content
• Over 300,000 ebooks available through the
OPAC
• Digital access to over 150,000 ebooks enabled or
enhanced over the past two years
Obstacles to Ebook Access and
Discover
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Sheer volume of titles
Varying cataloguing and metadata standards
Number of channels for ebook records
Maintaining volatile collections and keeping up
with website changes
• Lack of a reliable unique identifier
Our Collaboration
Policy and Plan
• Inform Library staff of difficulties inherent to
ebook cataloguing and access
• Consolidate record sources and record-loading
process
Collaborative Solution
eBook Cataloging – a Materials
Vendor’s Perspective
Jim Shetler
Vice President, Library Technical Services
YBP Library Services
The existing marketplace
• Libraries are still “OPAC centric”.
• Libraries want, and demand, materials vendors
to provide the same high-quality MARC records
for eBooks as they do for print.
• Libraries want a cataloging product that can
easily dovetail into existing technical services
workflows with little or no local remediation.
• Libraries want these products to be low cost or,
ideally, free.
The challenges
• Evolving national standards.
• Application of those standards vary from
customer to customer.
• Local requirements vary widely.
• Access to a digital object is often immediate. In
other words, there is no tangible object to “pick,
process, pack and ship”. Therefore, the ability to
deliver robust cataloging support as quickly as
possible, ideally immediately, is paramount.
The solutions
• Listen to your customers. Assess their needs
and requirements with an open mind.
• Provide a product that can easily be plugged into
existing workflows. Imposing an extraneous
workflow to accommodate your product will not
satisfy your customer base.
• Provide a product that requires little or no local
remediation.
• Play by the rules (AACR2, MARC, etc.)
The future
• “The future is unwritten” – The Clash
• Will the members of this audience witness the
demise of MARC?
• Will the members of this audience witness the
demise of the OPAC and underlying ILS system?
• Who will create the future? Will it be a
collaborative effort or will that future be
imposed?
Ebooks ordered through Yankee Book Peddler
added to the catalogue over time
450
400
Number of records
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
May-Jun 08
Jul-Aug 08
Sep-Oct 08
Nov-Dec 08
Jan-Feb 09
Date
Mar-Apr 09
May-Jun 09
Jul-Aug 09
Number of records added to the catalogue to August 2009 for
ebrary's Academic Complete and Canadian Electronic Library
ebook packages
45000
40000
Number of records
35000
30000
25000
Canadian Electronic Library
20000
Academic Complete
15000
10000
5000
0
Date
Is the Current Environment Really
that Complex? YES
Are Multiple Platforms Really an
Issue? YES
• Large backlist packages available on multiple
platforms: publisher platform, EBL, ebrary,
MyiLibrary, Netlibrary, etc.
• Individual frontlist and backlist titles available
for purchase through various book vendors on
the same multiple platforms
• Select titles part of ebook subscriptions on
specialized platforms
Serials Solutions®
KnowledgeWorks
The Authoritative Knowledgebase of EResources
Aron Wolf
Data Acquisitions Editor
First of all…
Thank you!
The Problem:
Access &
Representation
1
Patrons
3
2
E-Resources
Creating the
Knowledge
Base
Apply Rules
Library-Specific
Holdings Data
Normalize
KnowledgeWorks
4
Number of titles in select ebook packages compared with
number of records in the catalogue over the first eight
months of ebook MARC services with Serials Solutions
800
700
ENVIROnetBASE - Number of records in
catalogue
Number of records
600
ENVIROnetBASE - Number of titles in
package
Oxford Scholarship Online Philosophy Number of records in catalogue
500
Oxford Scholarship Online Philosophy Number of titles in package
Oxford Scholarship Online Political Science
- Number of records in catalogue
400
Oxford Scholarship Online Political Science
- Number of titles in package
Springer Protocols - Number of records in
catalogue
300
Springer Protocols - Number of titles in
package
200
100
0
Jan. 2009 Feb. 2009 Mar. 2009 Apr. 2009 May. 2009 Jun. 2009 Jul. 2009 Aug. 2009
Date
Percent coverage of ebook packages in catalogue activated
in Serials Solutions MARC service as of August 2009
Database/Package Name
Coverage in Catalogue (%)
Database/Package Name
Coverage in Catalogue (%)
AccessPharmacy
96
Scholarship Online Business and
Management
100
AccessScience
100
Scholarship Online Classical
Studies
100
Books24x7 BusinessPro
Collection
73
Scholarship Online Economics
and Finance
100
Histories Online
98
Scholarship Online History
100
Ebrary-hosted Wiley InterScience
Online Books–Medical, Veterinary
98
Scholarship Online Linguistics
100
ENVIROnetBASE
100
Scholarship Online Literature
100
Scholarship Online Mathematics
100
Health Source: Consumer Edition
1
HeinOnline Supreme Court
Library
100
Scholarship Online Music
100
Knovel Library: Engineering, Life
Sciences & Chemistry collections
94
Scholarship Online Philosophy
100
MD Consult Core Collection
100
Scholarship Online Physics
100
MIT CogNet
100
Scholarship Online Political
Science
100
Reference Online: Premium
93
Scholarship Online Psychology
100
Reference Online: Western
Civilization
83
Scholarship Online Religion
100
Scholarship Online Biology
100
POIESIS: Philosophy Online
Serials
100
Percent coverage of ebook packages in catalogue activated in
Serials Solutions MARC service as of August 2009 – Contd.
Database/Package Name
Coverage in Catalogue (%)
Database/Package Name
Coverage in Catalogue (%)
PsycBooks (Ovid)
46
SpringerLINK Studies in
Computational Intelligence
98
Safari Technical Books
79
SpringerLINK Studies in
Fuzziness and Soft Computing
99
SourceOECD
78
SpringerLINK Topics in
Organometallic Chemistry
100
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
SpringerLINK Advances in
Biochemical
Engineering/Biotechnology
14
SpringerLINK Tracts in Advanced
Robotics
96
SpringerLINK Tracts in Modern
Physics
63
SpringerLINK Understanding
Complex Systems
100
Springer Protocols
100
Springer Series in Optical
Sciences
96
Synthesis Collection One
21
Synthesis Collection Two
Wiley InterScience Online Books Medical, Veterinary and Health
Sciences collection
7
99
World Bank e-Library
97
SpringerLINK eBooks English/International Collection
SpringerLINK IFIP International
Federation for Information
Processing
83
59
99
SpringerLINK Lecture Notes in
Computer Science
98
SpringerLINK Lecture Notes in
Control and Information Sciences
93
SpringerLINK Lecture Notes in
Earth Sciences
100
SpringerLINK Lecture Notes in
Mathematics
96
SpringerLINK Lecture Notes in
Physics
86
SpringerLINK Progress in Colloid
and Polymer Science
86
SpringerLINK Structure & Bonding
66
Thinking Beyond the Catalogue
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Open link resolvers
A-Z lists
Federated search
Unified discovery platforms
Directing web searches to library resources from
WorldCat and Google Scholar
Driving the Future
• Increasing communication between publishers,
vendors, and libraries on:
▫ Content negotiated
▫ Metadata standards (establishing and
implementing)
▫ Complexities of working with multiple platforms
• Increasing consultation and trialing with library
clients in developing services and partnerships
• Increasing availability of front list titles in
electronic format
Provider-Neutral E-Monograph Record Task
Group Report
July 30, 2009
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/PN-Final-Report.pdf
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