OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives: Volume 18 Issue 4
Table of contents
The ALCTS Networked Resources and Metadata Committee: setting course in a sea of change
Norm MedeirosThis article describes the work of the Networked Resources and Metadata Committee (NRMC), a committee within ALA’s Association for Library Collections and Technical Services…
Saving room for CUSTARD
Randall C. JimersonThe Canadian‐US Task Force on Archival Description (CUSTARD) has undertaken the process of reconciling the two principal North American standards for archival description – the…
Building a national or international China bibliographic utility
Jinfang NiuToday, Chinese libraries are in urgent need of a national bibliographic utility resembling the OCLC union catalog for cooperative cataloging and resource sharing. Three options…
Celebrating history and innovation: the Louisiana Purchase Digital Library project at Louisiana State University
Aimee FifarekFor over a decade, the Louisiana State University Libraries have been engaged in providing digital access to their many varied special collections. The most recent of these…
Data collection for user‐oriented library services: Wesleyan University Library’s experience
Rachel Cheng, Steve Bischof, Alan J. NathansonThis article details the experience of Wesleyan University Library in Middletown, CT, in the collection, management and assessment of library usage statistics to improve current…
Transcribing and encoding spoken data
Marco CenciniPresents some basic features for encoding spoken texts with the TEI (text encoding initiative) scheme. Highlights the reasons for encoding spoken texts and gives a brief history…