Resource Discovery – from catalogues to discovery services

Organised by the Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland, this all day seminar will present different perspectives on resource discovery for library, archival and other educational and cultural collections.

With the advent of next generation web scale discovery layers supplementing or replacing traditional and in-house catalogues, institutional resource discovery environments are changing beyond recognition.

But what does this mean for our collections, and for our users?

The seminar will seek the views of users, cataloguers, reference services and systems staff, and developers, and explore the impact that these new discovery layers are having on discovery and integration of collections across libraries, archives, universities and other cultural institutions.

This event will be of value to information profesionals with an interest in metadata, user services, resource discovery, discovery systems and integrated use of collections.

Speakers are still being confirmed, but the event will include presentations from the Universities of Durham and St Andrews, the National Library of Scotland and Jisc.

When: Wednesday 21 March, 2018  (10:00 – 16:00 GMT)

Where: National Library of Scotland

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September Seminar: Managing Library Collections and Metadata

Join Backstage Library Works either in London or Edinburgh this September for a half-day seminar on managing collections and metadata in libraries.

The Topic:

Managing an institution’s collections and metadata can be a huge task. Librarians and archivists feel pressure to continually improve workflows, delivering better service to patrons and researchers.

At the same time, many are being asked to create efficiencies, to find new ways to accomplish more with existing resources.

Librarians at leading institutions are tackling these challenges in innovative ways. We’ve invited a few to discuss their current and future plans with you.

• Reclassification of library collections can speed up an acquisitions workflow and reduce processing costs for new items. Still, the task of changing class marks in the metadata, then relabeling and juggling the physical location of every book in the library can be overwhelming.
• Metadata workflows can be fine-tuned to streamline processes and improve discovery in your catalogue, but changes often require the coordinated efforts of several departments to overcome institutional inertia.
• Digital access to archival collections is expanding at a thrilling rate. However, the next fifty thousand images are only as useful as the metadata that patrons will search to find the content they want.

Dates:
Tuesday, 12 September 2017, in London
Thursday, 14 September 2017, in Edinburgh

Cost:
Free

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Questions? Please email:

Nicole Lewis
nicole@bslw.com