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Transforming Catalogers (and Others) into Digital Library
Specialists
The Evolution of the University of Oregon’s Metadata and Digital Library Services
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/handle/1794/919
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Presentation for WiLS OCLC Peer CouncilSpring MeetingMay 18, 2005
by
Carol HixsonHead, Metadata and Digital Library Services
University of Oregon
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Catalog Department in 2000
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MDLS Today
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MDLS Today
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Context in 2000
• Great staff
• PCC involvement
• Already doing quick cataloging
• Clean bibliographic database
• Team-based organization in department
• ARL library – budget deficit
• My background
• New UL in June 2000
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Gradual Evolution• Expanded PCC (BIBCO, full CONSER) • Retrospective conversion • Uncataloged collections survey
• Manuscript cataloging• Map cataloging• New services and approaches
– Different levels of cataloging – EAD training – Non-library collections in library catalog
• Preservation Dept. merged in February 2001• Digital collections work started 2003• Name change in December 2003• Image Services Center merged in July 2004
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New Skills and Focus
• Dublin Core, XML, TGM, etc.
• Project orientation
• Cross-functional initiatives or projects
• Access to Collections
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Access to Collections
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New Skills and Focus
• Dublin Core, XML, TGM, etc.
• Project orientation
• Cross-functional initiatives or projects
• Access to Collections
• Data for Local Communities
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Data for Local Communities
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New Skills and Focus
• Dublin Core, XML, TGM, etc.
• Project orientation
• Cross-functional initiatives or projects
• Access to Collections
• Data for Local Communities
• Northwest Digital Archive
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Northwest Digital Archive
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New Skills and Focus
• Dublin Core, XML, TGM, etc.
• Project orientation
• Cross-functional initiatives or projects
• Access to Collections
• Data for Local Communities
• Northwest Digital Archive
• Digital Library Initiative
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Digital Library Initiative
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New Skills and Focus
• Dublin Core, XML, TGM, etc.
• Project orientation
• Cross-functional initiatives or projects
• Access to Collections
• Data for Local Communities
• Northwest Digital Archive
• Digital Library Initiative
• Metadata Implementation Group
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Metadata Implementation Group
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Picturing the Cayuse
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New Skills and Focus
• Dublin Core, XML, TGM, etc.• Project orientation • Cross-functional initiatives or projects• Access to Collections• Data for Local Communities• Northwest Digital Archive• Digital Library Initiative• Metadata Implementation Group• Institutional Repository Group
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Institutional Repository Group
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New Skills and Focus• Dublin Core, XML, TGM, etc.• Project orientation • Cross-functional initiatives or projects• Access to Collections• Data for Local Communities• Northwest Digital Archive• Digital Library Initiative• Metadata Implementation Group• Institutional Repository Group• Digital Content Coordinators
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Digital Content Coordinators
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University of Oregon Libraries Digital Collectionshttp://libweb.uoregon.edu/diglib/search.html
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Training
• New staff
• Introduction to Dublin Core
• Introduction to scanning of images and text
• Introduction to content analysis for images
• Revised approach to descriptive metadata
• Stay one step ahead – informed by our professional development activities
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Digital Library Collections : Standards
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Digital Library Collections : Standards
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Poker Jim, Chief of Round Up, Pendleton, OR
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TCI Metadata from Poker Jim Image
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Descriptive Metadata for Poker Jim Image
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Technical Metadata for Poker Jim Image
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Tour of UO Digital Librarieshttp://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/digcol/forum/slideshow.html
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Tour of UO Digital Librarieshttp://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/digcol/forum/slideshow.html
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Tour of UO Digital Libraries
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/digcol/forum/slideshow.html
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Tour of UO Digital Librarieshttp://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/digcol/forum/slideshow.html
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Tour of UO Digital Librarieshttp://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/digcol/forum/slideshow.html
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Tour of UO Digital Librarieshttp://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/digcol/forum/slideshow.html
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Athletics & the Academy
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Historical Photograph Collection
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Historical Photograph Collection
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Western Waters Digital Library
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Along the Columbia River
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Indians Fishing at Celilo
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Scholars’ Bank
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How Did We Get There?
• Gradual evolution
• Working to acquire new skills (making time)
• Taking on new work when asked
• Seizing opportunities
• Promoting a wider role for ourselves
• Following through
• Changing focus
• Discussion
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Challenges
• Learning and keeping up with everything we need to know is difficult
• Hard to find common ground in increasingly diverse department
• Too busy, lots of balls in the air• Less contact with each other• Loss of experienced staff• Redefining our focus from inward to outward –
new mindset
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Successes
• Lots of work getting done – 114% increase in traditional cataloging
– Retrocon more than halfway done
– 6 digital collections publicly available
– Institutional repository up and running (ca 800 items)
• Cross training opportunities abound
• Wider role within library and on campus
• Greater collaboration
• Many people having fun
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Contact Information
Carol Hixson
Head, Metadata and Digital Library Services
University of Oregon Libraries
(541) 346-3064