Oct 15, 2022
Metadata Education
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Metadata Education
Alright y’all, it’s time for part 2 of my miniseries on Metadata! This week we’re talking about books -- how you describe them, and why that’s important to literally everyone anywhere.
As always, my video is captioned because dang it information accessibility is important.
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I…think I need to go lie down now. (Not really. I just figured out yesterday where the damn |b goes in the call number. Our catalog is such a wreck half of them are in the wrong place so I was never sure.)
...and I understand about the difficulties in MARC. It gets more fun/complicated when you're trying to be a repository that needs to pull bibliographic information and publisher/bookseller information. We send files to e-vendors that also include library-targeted e-vendors (eBrary, NetLibrary, MyILibrary, Overdrive - all complicated by the fact that all of them are also now parts of conglomerates that include e-bookseller departments as well as institutional-focused), so is it any wonder that MARC is just a fall-back for collecting data? (We tend to prefer pulling from press title management databases or ingesting Eloquence feeds.)