bibliographic infrastructure for shared print management
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Slides from ALCTS pre-conference on Shared Print Management, 5 June 2012. Outlines strategy behind OCLC Print Archives Disclosure Pilot project. (First part of session; second half was by Lizanne Payne, on detailed metadata guidelines.)TRANSCRIPT
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A Strategy for Network Disclosure using MARC21 Format for Holdings
Bibliographic Infrastructure for Shared Print Collections
5 June 2012#SharedPrintMgt
Constance Malpas
Program OfficerOCLC Research
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Shared Print: What’s the Problem?
• Shift in scholarly attention from print to electronic means low-use retrospective print collections are perceived to deliver less library value
• Competing demands for library space: teaching, learning, collaboration vs. “warehouse of books”
• Among academic libraries, a shrinking pool of institutions with mandate, capacity to support print preservation
• As transaction costs for managing legacy print collections decrease, libraries will seek to externalize print operations to shared repositories
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The Future of Shared Collections
• Economic and space pressures will make shared print management strategies more prevalent
• An active archive isn’t “just move it and forget it”
• Ongoing management of collections is required
• Workflows need to be mainstreamed with other resource management practices
• Retrospective vs. building shared collections through new acquisitions
• Relationship to HathiTrust, Portico and other digital archiving efforts
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Implications for Bibliographic Infrastructure
In emerging environment, registration of item (copy) level data is required to support:
• Preservation risk assessment – how many copies exist in the system? What is their condition? Are they subject to archival / persistence agreements?
• Collection management – which copies in local collection should be retained? How can space recovery be maximized? How can inventory be optimized?
• New business models – what is the total value of outsourcing preservation and access to shared repository?
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Fundamental requirements
• Print archiving institutions need:
• A mechanism to record and disclose institutional archiving commitments at title and volume level
• Decision support to identify/select titles and volumes suitable for archiving
• Print archive clients need:
• Decision support to identify/select titles and volumes suitable for withdrawal, based on existing archiving commitments, and/or donation (to fill gaps in archive)
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Shared Print: OCLC Research
Active portfolio of work since 2007:• North American library storage capacity (2007)
~70M volumes in storage; further capital investment unlikely
• Policy requirements shared print repositories (2009)critical need: disclosure of print preservation commitments
• Leveraging infrastructure: MARC21 583 Note (2009)copy-level retention, condition statements are required
• Cloud-sourcing research collections (2010)mass digitization of monographs accelerates shift to shared
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Print Archive Activities at OCLC
• Evaluate ways in which OCLC can help to support immediate and future needs for shared print management
• First priority: address needs for registering and disclosing retention commitments for print resources
• Leverage existing library investment in WorldCat
• Shared Print Archives Disclosure Pilot project
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Why use MARC 583?
• Defined for use in both bibliographic and local holdings record; flexible implementation
• Successfully deployed for cooperative microfilming projects in US, web archiving in Australia, DLF/OCLC Registry of Digital Masters
• Existing PDA thesaurus includes terms appropriate for print archiving actions (retained, condition reviewed, etc.)
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Registering Print Archiving Actions
583 Action Note • Action – committed to retain, condition reviewed
etc.
• Authorization – identifies Print Archive program
• Status – condition or completeness statement
• Method of Action – level of validation
• Materials Specified – if different from the 85x/86x
• Institution – identifies archiving agent
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5,820,316 bib level MARC 583 tags in WorldCat (Apr 2012)
• Vast majority (91%) are for monographic titles
• Very few (2%) include $3 “materials specified” detail
583 tag usage in WorldCat
As presently implemented, ill-suited to registration of cooperative preservation commitments
For serial holdings, especially, greater specificity of holdings and stewardship responsibility is needed
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Registry of Digital Masters
5,096,007 title-level digital preservation commitments registered in WorldCat (May 2012)
• 5,040,330 (99%) from HathiTrust
• 55,680 from other digitization projects
‘Industrial scale’ aggregation led to streamlined process, created critical mass in WorldCat
Centralizing, automating metadata creation facilitates upstream quality assurance
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Example 1: Registry of Digital Masters
This print edition held by 169 WorldCat libraries. The University of Chicago has digitized it and has registered a commitment to preserve the digital surrogate
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Example 2: UK Research Reserve
This print edition held by 5 WorldCat libraries. St Andrews University Library has registered a commitment to preserve a print copy.
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Why implement at local holdings level?
• Recording preservation commitments at title level in bibliographic record is practically impossible for serial publications (gaps in holdings, condition may vary from one volume to the next)
• LHR implementation supports distributed archiving efforts in which multiple libraries commit to preserve partial runs; less resource intensive than consolidating complete runs at a single institution
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Local Holdings Records in WorldCat
32,842,128 detailed holdings records (May 2012)
• Contributions from >10,000 libraries
• 38% of detailed holdings contributed by 85 ARL (1% of contributors)
Institutions most likely to assume print archiving responsibility are already contributing holdings
Easier to reinforce an existing behavior than to institutionalize a new one
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Growth of Local Holdings in WorldCat
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Millions of Detailed Holdings Records
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Print Archive Pilot
• Worked with 8 print archiving institutions to establish and test LHR-based approach
• CRL JSTOR archive
• WEST partners (UC San Diego, UCLA, Stanford, University of Oregon, SRLF)
• CIC Shared Print Archive (Indiana University)
• University of Minnesota dark JSTOR archive
• Pilot ran through 2011 and early 2012
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Print Archives Pilot activities
• Drafted metadata guidelines (2011)
• Developed controlled vocabulary (2011)
• Tested LHR contribution via OCLC Connexion Browser and batch-load utility (2011/2012)
• Evaluated resource sharing workflows (2012)
• Documented implementation processes, identified critical roadblocks (2012)
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Print Archive Pilot – Final Report, April 2012
Summary of activities
Metadata guidelines
Sample title data
Implementation checklist
Recommendations for libraries
Recommendations for OCLC
Report includes:
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Recommendations for Disclosure (1)
• Establish new Print Archive institution symbols
• For a shared storage Print Archive model, only one symbol needed – for the Archive itself
• For an “archive-in-place” model, need new symbols for each participating institution
• Less than ideal, but necessary to support resource sharing
• Contribute LHRs containing 583 tag data
• Establish best practices for use of the 583 and other LHR fields for print archiving
• For shared model, need a consolidated file of LHRs since load replaces rather than merges
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Recommendations for Disclosure (2)
• Create Group Access Capability (GAC) to facilitate discovery
• LHR 583 data also indexed in Connexion (use “io:” label)
• Assumption of an active archive requires support for resource sharing
• Prioritization, deprecation or deflection for lending
NB Proposed method is optimized for serials but extensible (in principle) to monographs
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Model implementation: Registration of print archiving commitment
Title held by 1100 libraries;hundreds of
local holdings profiled
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Recommendations for Print Archives
• Wherever feasible, contribute detailed holdings statement with 583 Action Note in accordance with Print Archives guidance
$a-Action, $c-Time/date of action, $l-Status $2-Source of term are critical (and mandatory per PDA)
$d-Action interval $f –Authorization, $i-Method of action, $j-Site of action etc. required where applicable
• If registration at local holdings level is not possible, record print archiving commitment in the bibliographic record
$a-Action, $3-Materials specified, $5-Institution are critical
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As of 1 June 2012, 32 new shared print / print archiving
symbols in WorldCat
Collectively, we are making progress:
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As of 1 June 2012, more than 2800 titles with print archiving
commitments in WorldCat
Collectively, we are making progress:
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Collectively, we are making progress:
LHR 583 tag data indexed in Connexion – use “IO” label for
searching, with or without shared print symbols
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• FAQ for print archiving support at OCLC will be published soon:
• How to request new ‘shared print’ symbol
• Set up for batchloading LHR
• Metadata guidelines
• Resource sharing tips
• Exploring application of 583 strategy for monographic print archiving
What’s Next?