Name of Department/Unit/Team:
Metadata and Digitization Services
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Goals 2018-2019 and Related Strategic Actions:
1. Designing and building a dramatically new library environment to serve as a catalyst for academic enterprise at Temple.
- Participate in the move from Paley to Charles Library, adjusting our cataloging and digitization workflows accordingly, but especially by continuing retrospective cataloging and metadata enrichment efforts, to ensure as many resources as possible have adequate descriptions before they are moved into an automatic storage and retrieval system and become inaccessible by physical browsing.
2. Enriching the environment for learning and student success.
- Improve discovery of TU resources by working with a vendor to enhance metadata for our entire Alma bibliographic database, including addition of data as well as cleanup of legacy data to improve faceted discovery as well as search and browse capabilities.
- Improve discovery of library and archival resources as well as TU-related entities by continuing to provide metadata expertise to the Library’s Blacklight Search and Website Redesign projects.
3. Developing programs, services, and resources to enhance intellectual productivity, scholarly infrastructure, new modes of research and clinical care services.
- Increase availability of digital cultural heritage objects in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by continuing to onboard new digital collections and new contributors to the DPLA, and by increasing outreach efforts with a new Outreach and Curatorial team in the PA Digital project.
- Increase digital literacy in Pennsylvania libraries by continuing to lead outreach efforts and provide educational content about rights management for digital collections.
- Promote use of digital collections in K-12 education efforts by continuing to develop and share curated PA Digital Primary Source Sets, in partnership with local educators.
4. Exploring new opportunities in publishing and scholarly communication.
- Improve exposure and discovery of TU Press publications by participating in the Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication program and creating original descriptions for these resources.
- Improve exposure of TU scholarly output by continuing to create faculty profiles in Symplectic Elements and by participating in the implementation of and migration of content to the DSpace institutional repository.
5. Seeking partners in innovation and experimentation to add value to library programs and to identify new avenues for economic support.
- Increase our capacity to onboard new contributors and new digital collections to the DPLA by working with Library Technology Development to rewrite our PA Digital aggregator software to make it more flexible and user-friendly.
- With Penn Libraries, explore a partnership in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania between libraries and state data producers to inventory and develop capacity for long term stewardship of public data (Future Proofing Civic Data Phase II).
7. Serving as a repository of record for archival, rare, and unique materials and providing broad access to those collections.
- Improve accessibility of TU digital content by implementing CONTENTdm responsive interface.
- Continue to make new information resources available to our users through ongoing cataloging and digitization efforts, including exposing hidden collections and unique materials.
- Assist in preserving Temple University web-based assets by continuing to collaborate with SCRC to add web content to the Temple University Special Collections archived websites collection in Archive-It, and by continuing to collaborate with SCRC to build metadata profiles and capture data for websites related to Temple University.
8. Building a world-class staff for leadership in the research library enterprise.
- Continue to build upon TUL-wide cooperative efforts by incorporating Health Sciences Libraries cataloging into regular cataloging workflows.
- Increase participation in DPLA at the national level by taking on leadership roles in DPLA Working Groups, including Metadata, Assessment, and Outreach.