Collections, Discovery Tools, and Metadata ServicesThe University of Maryland, College Park Libraries' (the Libraries; UM Libraries) collections include 3.45 million print books and 1.2 million eBooks, 17,000 electronic journals, and 352 electronic databases. 2 In late 2011, the Libraries implemented WorldCat Local, OCLC's singlesearch-box interface to the WorldCat database of cataloged resources and a central index of metadata provided by publishers, Abstracting and Indexing Services, institutional repositories, and so on. With WorldCat Local, and later, WorldCat Discovery, OCLC utilizes a knowledge base in managing e-resources discovery and access. 3 Knowledge bases are "associated with link resolvers and electronic resource management systems" and "contain title-level metadata, linking syntax rules, publication ranges and other data." 4 KBART files are so named to represent files compliant with the NISO recommended practice, "Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART)." 5 KBART files, created and supplied by content providers, are used to transmit this title level metadata to knowledge base vendors and discovery service providers. 6 Since OCLC enhances these files with OCLC numbers (OCN) in order to provide automated holdings maintenance on WorldCat bibliographic records, the Libraries' Metadata Services Department (MSD) adopted a policy in 2012 to provide access to e-resources only via WorldCat when such files are available.Beth Guay (baguay@umd.edu) is Continuing Resources Librarian, University of Maryland Libraries, University of Maryland, College Park.A CASE STUDY ON THE PATH TO RESOURCE DISCOVERY | GUAY | doi:10.6017/ital.v36i3.9966
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Space PlanningEarly on, the Libraries' collection policies targeted duplicate copies of print monographs and print journals held electronically in trusted repositories, e.g., JSTOR, for deselection. By March 2014, the Libraries' Collection Development Council discussed moving microfilm collections to the yet to be opened Severn Library, slated to "house lesser used materials … in order to free up much needed space for users and the development of new collaborative learning spaces." 7 8 A year later, in April 2015, a meeting was called by the Assistant Head, Collection Development, to investigate microfilm collection retention decisions. This time the Libraries were considering the withdrawal of microfilm resources for which equivalent versions were held online. A caveat placed on the withdrawal of the microfilm by the collection managers was that prior to their withdrawal and subsequent deletion of the Libraries' holdings on the WorldCat bibliographic records, the equivalent e-version resources should be made discoverable in WorldCat UMD (the Libraries' WorldCat Discovery implementation) by the addition of the Libraries' holdings on e-version bibliographic records corresponding to the microfilm version records.Following the meeting, the Librarian for English, Latin American, & Latina/o Studies and Second Language Acquisition provided the Continuing and Electronic ...
