Metadata and Digitization Services
Team
- Anne Casey, Bibliographic Assistant III, Digitization
- Carla Davis Cunningham, Monographic Cataloging Librarian
- Matthew Ducmanas, Special Collections Cataloging Librarian
- Evelyn Lane, Bibliographic Assistant I, Monographic Cataloging
- Molly Larkin, Electronic Resources & Serials Cataloging Librarian
- Celio Pichardo, Bibliographic Assistant III, Monographic Cataloging
- Casey Shiflet, Digital Collections Specialist
- Holly Tomren, Head of Metadata Strategy & Digitization Services
Related Spaces
- Alma How-To
- /wiki/spaces/SAD/pages/23003137
- /wiki/spaces/SAD/pages/22839300 (See Blacklight/Solr documentation above for the most up-to-date mappings)
- Digitization & Metadata Practices Group
- PA Digital
- Technology and Knowledge Management
- Technology Projects and Initiatives
Project Documentation
Workflow Documentation & References
Current Projects & Status
- Alma cleanup & workflows - ongoing
- ASRS ingestion & cleanup
- Ambler: monograph loading is mostly complete, journals are in review
- Main Storage: 12" bins have arrived and loading of basement storage items will take place over the summer
- Blacklight/Library Search/Website - ongoing
- Cataloging - ongoing
- Centralized Metadata Repository - next sprint July 2022
- Digitization - currently scanning Temple News, Bulletin Photographs
- e-CIP for TU Press - ongoing
- PA Digital - LSTA grant ended in September 2021, currently in "maintenance mode"
- DPLA Harvest - next is in September 2022
- NACO - ongoing
- SACO - self-guided LCSH training and SACO manual review
- TU Course Catalogs - cataloging in progress; scanning project initiation waiting on replacement scanner
- Web Archiving - ongoing
- WorldCat Streamlined Holdings Update - in progress
Documentation Wishlist
- Copy cataloging guidelines (field-by-field, what we verify, enhance, ignore, or delete)
- Accompanying materials (bib & item record instructions, physical processing instructions)
- Physical processing by site, including marking
- Guidelines for when we would upgrade the OCLC master record
- Revision guidelines
- What fields are cleaned up in batch as part of Marcive or WorldCat updates
- Rules for specific item locations (e.g., Oversize guidelines by site)
- Documentation of all "local" metadata practices
- local notes, including gift notes
- local collection names (and what field to find them in)
- local
genres/subjects - local creator/contributor names (e.g., donors), if traced
- local control numbers
- current and legacy use of 9XX fields
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