Using automation in technical services to foster innovation

Diedrichs, Caroll Pitts

doi:10.1016/s0099-1333(98)90171-9

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“…For example, libraries now use vendor-supplied cataloging records for a variety of collections, have automated authority control, and worked with vendors to create "shelf-ready" materials, smart barcodes, and other automated approaches to cataloging and processing library materials (Diedrichs, 1998). To date, none of these approaches have been systematically applied to microforms collections-even when the collections are two different formats of the same collection and titles (Martin, 2007).…”

Section: Microforms Collections: Uncomplicated and Direct Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dinosaurs in a Jetson world: A dozen ways to revitalize your microforms collection

Cheney

2010

Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services

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a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c tMicroforms collections are at a crossroads and how effective libraries are in increasing the visibility and usability of these collections will determine whether they endure. In the last decade many libraries have made significant changes in how they process, catalog, and provide access to their traditional book and journal collections, even in how they view their library's physical spaces and the role of library services in providing support for their collections. This article will suggest changes libraries will need to make if they expect to mainstream the most useful and valuable parts of their microforms collections by applying some of the same innovative and change-oriented approaches they have used in other areas of their libraries.

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Section: Microforms Collections: Uncomplicated and Direct Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%