Access 1 Session Notes

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<strong>Providing End-Users with Multiple Access Points, by Jennifer Ricker, State Library of North Carolina</strong>

- Full MARC records are still requested from depository librarians
- Their goal is to do full MARC records for all state publications regardless of format
- They have one documents cataloger
- They lack programmatic IT support and have to look only at hosted solutions. Because of this, they are using OCLC's Digital Archive and Web Archives Workbench products and crosswalk from Dublin Core to MARC using OCLC's Connexion software (not in Connexion client though – only browser)
- They are also using CONTENTdm for full-text searching capability and use Archive-It for websites.
-Possible solutions:
1 – One solution is to batch upload everything to the Digital Archive and export the metadata to a database with an access solution.
2 – Put all content and metadata into CONTENTdm for access and keep Digital Archive as the preservation copy.

<strong>ContentDM as a Repository for Oklahoma State Documents, by Gary Phillips, Oklahoma Publications Clearinghouse</strong>

-Okalahoma Crossroads can be viewed at http://www.crossroads.odl.state.ok.us/
-CONTENTdm is marketed chiefly as a tool for digitized images and manuscripts and training and help screens are pretty much focused on this as the only use of the product as well
-No format conversion is done – if the document comes to him in a Microsoft Word format, he keeps it as such.
-CONTENTdm does a good job with thumbnails. Gary creates a thumbnail image for the state agency that created the document he uploads.
-Finds it hard to customize CONTENTdm unless you are a programmer.
-Gary questions the efficacy of controlled vocabularies. When uploading documents into CONTENTdm, he leaves the subject blank. The trained catalogers enter the subject headings when fully cataloging the documents and Gary goes back into CONTENTdm and updates the records with these subject headings.
-Working with a backlog of cataloging. Not enough resources.
-Expectations are not realistic – the member libraries assume that they are capturing ALL electronic publications! Is this even possible with the resources they have?

<strong>Discussed:</strong>
- Workflows of cataloging for access and preservation
- Who still does full MARC cataloging (nearly everybody, it seemed)
- Searching