Academic Libraries

#Covid-19 Library Work

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Brief summary of current projects while remote working:

Managing some dB cleanup tasks: Checking and cleaning URLs for migrated e-resources that never got cleaned up after a platform migration by the vendor; Cleaning up basic e-resource cataloging procedures (because of overlapping tasks); Responding to questions that come from these procedures and processes

Reworking LD4P/Sinopia Profiles and Templates: After some changes made by the cohort of libraries in the LD4P project, those of us working and developing Linked-data-for-Production in Sinopia, a BIBFRAME editor and template builder for using this new schema, we realized we needed to update some templates for Series, Administrative Metadata to track provenance of the data for resources, as well as some ongoing efforts to add persistent data to avoid re-keying or re-searching for URIs

Working up Review for Publication: I am reviewing an item in the READING AUGUSTINE series, On Agamben, Arendt, Christianity and the Dark Arts of Civilization / by Peter Iver Kaufman. This work, fundamentally, compares, these three thinkers’ notion of ‘pilgrims,’ ‘refugees,’ and ‘pariahs,’ to draw some political/social continuities (and dis-continuities) between the three paradigms (which of course largely split over worldview).

And Plenty O’ other things…

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Late info: Review of Intrapreneurship Handbook for Librarians (published in 2018)

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Jesse A. Lambertson, “Arne J. Almquist and Sharon G. Almquist, Intrapreneurship Handbook for Librarians: How to Be a Change Agent in Your Library,” The Library Quarterly 88, no. 3 (July 2018): 303-304.

This is a review of the book mentioned published at LQ in July 2018.

I just wanted to get this to the site for future use.

https://doi.org/10.1086/697708

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BIBFRAME Primer (Survey)

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Hello metadata/cataloging friends,

I am gathering observations and technical information at a larger scale on BIBFRAME with this survey – which is intended to see where folks and institutions are with BIBFRAME, its implementation in Sinopia, how departments are getting trained, and like questions. In fact, this will become, I hope, the beginning of a broader education and research project.

I am titling this project: ‘BIBFRAME Metadata Production : A Primer’
And is being funded, in small part, by a grant by AALL (American Association for Law Libraries) – which covers the acquisition of a few resources.

The Survey is 10 (ten) questions, most will be relevant, in some way, to each metadata/cataloging department in libraries doing any significant metadata production in their respective institutions. Feel free to write as much for each question as is needed to answer it.
Link to survey here.

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Large Libraries Provide Reading Potential

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Just a quick note – now that I have changed cities and jobs…

The Chicago Maroon (image from University Archives) (accessed 12 November 2019)

‘Tis so good to have access to such a large academic library collection – my reading is not met with any significant limits. Yes, I know, not every library has every book by every author. Not even Library of Congress has EVERY book (and they have the largest collection in the world).

I have found some obscure theological works, books on physics and time, international literature, as well as some of the best apologetic books in history. If by chance, something is not available in the collection, I make use of the fabulous ILL department (which, by the way, is one of the busiest in the United States).

I guess then I will keep reading.

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