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Research Data Services
I was able to attend a regional round table of librarians working in research data. Some librarians were the research data librarian at their institution. Surprisingly or not, the majority of librarians had a variety of job functions of which research data was a component. Many came from institutions that didn’t have a dedicated team solely for research data. In this case, these librarians…
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Organization and Skills
There are a number of good resources that talk about the changing role of catalog/metadata librarians. This is a topic that I myself have talked about in past posts and in a recent book chapter. My focus has been on skills and new opportunities through initiatives. New roles and even librarianship today work increasingly with technology beyond typical word processors and application for…
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Context
Sally Gore had another interesting post on the topic of the bifurcation of data or data that is not within its context. What I found interesting about this post was that in the rush to offer services to researchers that these data are taken out of context like so many other things currently in our society. In reading this article, I was reminded of the early years of digitization and digital…
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It's all about time
It’s all about time
Do you know Sally Gore and her blog, “A Librarian by any other name”? Her blog is one of my favorites. Sometimes, it takes me a couple of weeks just to think about the different ideas that she addresses in her blog, which tend to be dense. Recently, she posted, “Taking Inventory“. This is an extremely positive post about transformations and transforming oneself as a librarian. Too often, change…
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The Problem with Records
The Problem with Records
In the past several weeks, I’ve been fortunate to have attended several one day conferences. In this post, I want to highlight a presentation by Diane Hillman called “Moving to the Open World: It’s not as scary as it sounds”. This presentation was on how linked open data can work for library data in terms of making our data accessible and discoverable by others. This was a fantastic presentation…
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The Infofuture White Paper
The Infofuture White Paper
I’m trying to catch up on my reading and other things this weekend. Finally, I got around to looking up the white paper that I read about in the latest issue of American Libraries. That white paper is in reference to the article starting on page 40, “The Future of the MLS: Rethinking Librarian Education” by John Carolo Bertot and Lindsay Sarin. The author’s summary of our current situation is…
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The Data Revolution
There is definitely a movement afoot to jump on the data band wagon. This is nothing new. But it is becoming more common to hear how librarians are becoming data driven and how catalogers and metadata work with data. The number of workshops on how to handle the data deluge, how to help manage data, etc. continue to proliferate. The discussion that is conspicuously absent is about technical…
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Evolving Role of E-Resources Librarian
Evolving Role of E-Resources Librarian
I didn’t find my session on workflow efficiency. However, I attended a great session on how the role of electronic resources librarian is changing. I wanted to share with you my notes from the session because the presenter did a great job of asking the question about how everyone’s role in the library is changing. The presenter was Monica Moore from the University of Notre Dame Libraries; her…
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Workflow Efficiences
ALA session is here again with Midwinter approaching quickly. Typically every year, there are presentations on workflows and efficiencies. The topic is generally how to make workflows more efficient. I have to admit that I enjoy these presentations. Quite simply, efficient workflows are not only a time saver but also can improve any workplace experience. As I head off to ALA, one workflow…
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Happy New Year
It has been some time since my last post. Actually several ideas have come and gone but never seemed to formalize themselves into posts. And now it is already a new year. What are most associated with the New Year? You have probably already guessed it… yes … New Year Resolutions! Do you have any resolutions this year? What about for technical services and/or your job? One of the reasons I have…
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Change
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In several of my past posts, I’ve talked about change. In relation to the metadata services, I put out the survey because I feel that a change is needed where I work. More specifically, as users’ needs change, the way we help them, aka do business, also has to change. I’m not advocating for giving up cataloging or saying goodbye to MARC. Our users also need our expertise in describing materials…
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Resources
In my last post, I ended with the question of how to get the resources you need to create and deliver metadata services. I should say right now that I’m not sure really how to do this effectively. One issues is that metadata services is a very vague subject. What are metadata services? And then who delivers those services? There’s also the question of change and how change is accepted in your…
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The Traditional Unit
The survey I distributed to get more information on metadata services asked respondents to explain why they didn’t provide metadata services if this was the case at their institution. Interestingly, it was a split between those still in the planning phase and those that said their units were still traditional cataloging units. Do you know what a traditional cataloging unit is? I asked a couple of…
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Metadata Quality, Technology, and Ticking Time Bombs
Metadata Quality, Technology, and Ticking Time Bombs
I had some excellent comments from my last post and I wanted to return to some ideas that came from these comments. One noted that the quality of metadata is a ticking time bomb. In both comments, issues about the place and increasing reliance on technology was raised.
Metadata quality is a hot issue. Where I work, it is a struggle to be able to respond to the number of requests and provide good…
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Admin Ignores Us
I’m working through the results of a survey on metadata practices with digital scholarship. I asked a question about why metadata services aren’t provided. Several answers were of the variation that administration didn’t support metadata services. The most negative answer recorded was that administration ignored cataloging and metadata. I’ve heard this complaint before at various conferences and…
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The Elusive Metadata
I’ve talked about how the term “metadata” has become associated with so many jobs, tasks, or titles that I wonder if the term has lost much of its meaning to be helpful. I was reminded of my question while reading a recent thread on what to call catalogers. The term metadata came up. Another reminder was my supervisor who stated that everyone in her department does metadata. I’ve heard over the…
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Understaffed : It's not as bad as you think
Understaffed : It’s not as bad as you think
I have written a number of posts on the disadvantages of being in an understaffed unit and/or library. Many of us work in understaffed and unfortunately underfunded libraries. So, many of us also know the difficulties faced with being a solo anything. In this post, I wanted to focus on the advantages of being a solo everything.
Job security: I thought I would start with something light and funny.…
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