November 19th, 2009
OIAster records:
More than 23 million records have been added to WorldCat.org results this month from a group project called OAIster. … You’ll now find more materials such as digitized books and articles, audio and video files, photos, data sets, theses and research papers in WorldCat.org because of this addition.
Example: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/284348235
Conference publications also added to WorldCat:
Two additional indexes — PapersFirst and ProceedingsFirst — have been added to WorldCat.org results. These indexes contain papers from conferences, symposiums and expositions worldwide. Created from items received by The British Library Document Supply Centre—you’ll find 7.4 million published items in English, French, Spanish and Chinese.
Source: oclc@oclc.org email dated 11/19/2009
–Felicity
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October 23rd, 2009
The Digital Resources Unit recently completed two large ebook series and one collection this month. They are:
ACS Symposium Series: This series consisted of over 1,000 titles published by the American Chemical Society in the last 30 years, covering a variety of topics in chemistry.
Advances in Chemistry Series: Over 250 titles published from the 1950’s, also by the American Chemical Society.
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions: nearly 500 titles which the University of Pittsburgh has chosen to make open access, including many out of print titles.
Thanks to Anna Jensen and Rebecca Schedler for their hard work in cataloging these ebooks.
As a reminder, you can now limit just to ebooks by selecting the Material Type of Ebooks through limiting or advanced searching.
–Mary Aycock
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October 14th, 2009
Jee Davis and Felicity Dykas will repeat the presentation they gave at the Missouri Library Association conference at the Catalog Department’s October training. In their presentation — FRBR: First Step to RDA — Jee and Felicity will review basic concepts covered in Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), a report published in 1998, and their application in Resource Description and Access (RDA), the cataloging standard slated to replace AACR2.
Everyone is invited to attend:
October 26
10:00-11:00 am
Ellis 4G41
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September 21st, 2009
We have completed cataloging for the microfilm set “Latin America, 1982-1985 Supplement” and the film is now available in Special Collections. It is part of the larger Special Studies series by University Publications of America (now part of Lexis-Nexis).
The Catalog Dept has an agreement with Lexis-Nexis to catalog these microfilm sets for OCLC Collection Sets in exchange for receiving the microfilm sets for FREE! A list of completed sets is available from OCLC Collection Sets at: http://collectionsets.oclc.org/SetInfo.jsp?SetSymbol=YMV
This is another way we are using our resources to maximize our acquisitions. The set we just finished cataloging has a cost of $660. Lexis-Nexis will be sending us the next installment, Latin America, 1985-1988 Supplement which costs $2,740.
“Special Studies provide assessments by U.S. experts on far-ranging topics of national, regional, and global concern. Students and researchers worldwide who are interested in international relations will find much authoritative material to further their understanding and stimulate their own thinking.
The authors of these special studies are associated with several of the finest research facilities in the United States: the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, the Naval War College’s Center for Advanced Research, the National Defense University, the Institute for Defense Analysis, the Army Command and General Staff College, the American Institutes for Research, and major international institutes at Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Georgetown, MIT, and Yale.”–Publisher’s website, Sept. 21, 2009.
You may locate these in MERLIN by using the exact titles:
- Special studies series (University Publications of America, Inc.)
- Special studies series (University Publications of America (Firm)),
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August 26th, 2009
The MERLIN Quality Cataloging Committee (MQCC) recently implemented new MERLIN icons which went live on Aug. 19th. The Catalog Dept. updated over half a million records for our portion of the initial project. As part of the project, the Material Type limit in the MERLIN advanced search (http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/search~S1/Y) was also updated and has been reordered to the following:
- BOOKS
- EBOOKS
- THESES/DISSERTATIONS
- ONLINE THESES/DISSERTATN
- JOURNALS/NEWSPAPERS
- ONLINE JOURNALS/NEWSPAPR
- DVD/VIDEOS
- ONLINE FILMS/VIDEOS
- OTHER FILMS/VIDEOS
- SLIDES
- CD/DVD-AUDIOS
- ONLINE SOUND RECORDINGS
- VINYL SOUND RECORDINGS
- OTHER SOUND RECORDINGS
- SCORES
- ONLINE SCORES
- IMAGES
- ONLINE IMAGES
- 3-D OBJECTS
- MAPS
- ONLINE MAPS
- SOFTWARE
- KITS
- MIXED MATERIALS
- ONLINE MIXED MATERIALS
- OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES
- MICROFORMS
- MISCELLANEOUS
- HARDWARE
- STUDY ROOMS
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August 25th, 2009
We now have a subscription to OCLC’s Bibliographic Notification Service (http://www.oclc.org/bibnote/default.htm). With this service, we receive reports from OCLC about changes others have made to bibliographic records in WorldCat.
We are using this information to quickly enhance records in MERLIN with table of contents, summaries, and subject headings. In June, we added table of contents to 411 records and new subject headings to 250 records. 304 additional records already had table of contents, many supplied via our table of contents subscription.
Examples of enhanced records:
– Felicity Dykas
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August 12th, 2009
An update of 57 records of freely available RAND ebooks were loaded from RAND. You can spot the records in this week’s new books list (click electronic books).
You can also see the complete list of over 2,500 RAND ebooks in MERLIN.
—Mary Aycock
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August 12th, 2009
The following title was added to ebrary last month:
Jacquard’s Web: How a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age
The following titles were also deleted (all published by IGI Global):
- Measuring Information Systems Delivery Quality
- Cases on Telecommunications and Networking
- Know-CoM: Decentralized Knowledge Management Systems for Cooperating Die- and Mold-Making SMEs
- Biometric Image Discrimination Technologies
- Collaborative Geographic Information Systems
- Implementation Strategies for SAP R/3 in a Multinational Organization : Lessons from a Real-World Case Study
- Tools for Teaching Computer Networking and Hardware Concepts
- Integrated Approach to Web Performance Testing : A Practitioner’s Guide
- New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production : Understanding E-Science
- Diversity in Information Technology Education : Issues and Controversies
- Advanced Topics in Information Technology Standards and Standardization Research, Volume 1
- Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence
- Web Semantics and Ontology
- Advances in Image and Video Segmentation
- Building and Managing Enterprise-Wide Portals
- Web and Information Security
—Mary Aycock
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July 28th, 2009
Marie Concannon invited Felicity and Jee to discuss MU Maps “Learning Environment” Project on July 21st. Goodie and Sandy were also present at the meeting. MU maps are scattered throughout the Ellis Library and Marie is planning to create a common area where all the maps in various formats can be located together.
This was a preliminary planning meeting. As the project progresses we expect to conduct a lot of maintenance for the map records.
–Jee
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July 23rd, 2009
For approximately a year now, we have been cataloging theses and dissertations acquired through ILL for our students and faculty after their initial use. Formerly, only title and author access were provided prior to them be sent to UMLD.
The enriched records are receiving increased attention from faculty and graduate students as a couple of the most recent ones have had holds placed on them within days of being cataloged.
Wayne
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