Metadata, 2nd edition

Zeng, Marica Lei and Jian Qin. Metadata. 2nd edition. Neal-Schuman, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-55570-965-5

Description

This new edition offers a comprehensive look at the metadata schemas that exist in the world of library and information science and beyond, as well as the contexts in which they operate. It is useful as either a course text or a reference guide to working professionals and features:

• lays out the fundamentals of metadata, including principles of metadata, structures of metadata vocabularies, and metadata descriptions;
• surveys metadata standards and their applications in distinct domains and for various communities of metadata practice;
• examines metadata building blocks, from modeling to defining properties, and from designing application profiles to implementing value vocabularies;
• describes important concepts as resource identification, metadata as linked data, consumption of metadata, interoperability, and quality measurement; and
• offers an updated glossary to help readers navigate metadata’s complex terms in easy-to-understand definitions.

Table of Contents

A detailed table of contents is available on the publisher's web site.

Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries

Holley, Robert P.  (ed.). Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries. Purdue University Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-55753-721-8

Description
As the term “traditional publishing” begins to fade and new content producers join the conversation, librarians, publishers, and vendors will play an important role in facilitating and managing the shift. This book includes essays on reviewing sources, cataloging and bibliographic control, and vendor issues. Information addressing public libraries issues will highlight initiatives to make self-published materials available at the Los Gatos Public Library in California and the Kent District Library in Michigan. Essays on academic library issues will address why self-published materials are important for academic institutions, especially those with comprehensive collecting interests. Several self-published authors focus on how they attempt to make their works more suitable for public libraries. 

Table of Contents

Introduction / Robert P. Holley, Wayne State University

E-book self-publishing and the Los Gatos Library: a case study / Henry Bankhead, Los Gatos Library

Supporting self-publishing and local authors: from challenge to opportunity / Melissa DeWild and Morgan Jarema, Kent District Library

Do large academic libraries purchase self-published books to add to their collections? / Kay Ann Cassell, Rutgers University

Why academic libraries should consider acquiring self-published books / Robert P. Holley, Wayne State University

Digital authoring, electronic scholarship, and libraries: from walled garden to wilderness / Donald Beagle, Belmont Abbey College

Book vendors and self-publishing / Bob Nardini, Proquest Books

Ingram and independent publishing / Robin Cutler, Ingram Content Group

Review sources of interest to librarians for independently published books / Eleanor I. Cook, East Carolina University

Self-publishing and bibliographic control / Robert P. Holley, Wayne State University

Self-publishing and libraries: the slush pile is the platform / Tom Bruno, Yale University

An indie author in a library world / Altonya Washington, Livingstone College

The romance of self-publishing / Elizabeth Nelson, McHenry County College

Alacrity House Publishing / Frankie l. Colton, Alacrity House Publishing

Self-publishing: a bibliographic essay / Joseph D. Grobelny, Front Range Community College

Infographics: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Infographics: A Practical Guide for Librarians by Beverley E. Crane. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. 978-1-4422-6036-8.

Publisher's Description

Designed for librarians who work with all age levels from youngsters to seniors at all educational, reading and language backgrounds, who must fulfill responsibilities that run the gamut from instructing patrons on information literacy skills to using electronic tools to marketing the library to locating funding, Infographics: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides librarians with the following:

• Section I: Infographics 101 contains definitions, history, importance in today’s society, types and examples, advantages and disadvantages, general uses, uses in libraries, tools for creation and design tips.
• Section II: Practical applications show how to use infographics in academic, public, special and school libraries. Included are visual examples and step-by-step instructions to create two infographics

Included in each section are exercises, tables with URLs to more ideas and materials and references.

This practical guide will help every type and size of library use infographics as a powerful part in their 21st century game plan. Whether it's marketing the public library, improving students information literacy skills in a school library or showcasing the accomplishments of the academic library, infographics can be a vital part of the library's playbook. The book describes ways to use infographics to:

• raise funds for a public library
• teach critical thinking and 21st century skills in the school library
• illustrate why libraries matter by relaying value of academic libraries
• market the library
• improve information literacy in academic settings
• advocate for resources and services.

Creating Online Tutorials

Creating Online Tutorials: A Practical Guide for Librarians by Hannah Gascho Rempel and Maribeth Slebodnik. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 978-0-8108-9243-9.

 

Publisher's Description

Today’s students rely heavily on using electronic resources; they expect to be able to access library resources from any location and at any time of the day. More and more schools, from K-12 through graduate level universities, are offering online education, and libraries must be prepared to guide learners in how to use library resources when and where they are needed. Online tutorials are the library’s answer to providing this immediate instruction, and today’s learners are expecting to have these guides available.

Many librarians don’t have the technical expertise needed to create online tutorials.

Creating Online Tutorials: A Practical Guide for Librarians will help guide them through the basics of designing and producing an online tutorial. Through practical examples, the book will guide librarians just starting the process of creating an online tutorial from start to finish and will provide tips that will be useful to librarians with more experience in designing online tutorials.

This detailed roadmap for designing and producing online tutorials covers:

• When to consider a tutorial
• Needs assessment
• Choosing the right technology
• Selecting and organizing instructional content
• Planning—script, images, narration, other design elements
• Assessment as a primary design element
• Maintenance and updating
• Online tutorial resources

After reading this book, new tutorial developers will have a practical, customizable blueprint that will enable them confidently address the creation of their first online tutorials, and experienced developers will learn efficient techniques to create and enhance future tutorials that are attractive, effective teaching tools.

Resource Sharing Today: A Practical Guide to Interlibrary Loan, Consortial Circulation and Global Cooperation

Nyquist, Corinne. Resource Sharing Today: A Practical Guide to Interlibrary Loan, Consortial Circulation and Global Cooperation. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-8108-8803-6

Description
This practical guide to resource sharing starts with the library across town and ends with libraries on the other side of the globe. It provides a deep look at the practice of sharing resources and interlibrary loan services and includes lots of examples of codes, forms, and agreements. 

Table of Contents

PART I: BUILDING AN EFFICIENT RESOURCE DELIVERY SYSTEM
1. Teaching Each Other ILL, Since the Library Schools Won’t Do It
ILL departments cooperate and guide each other. You need an introduction to the modes of communication.
2. MARC: Library of Congress Did It, But Now It Must Change
Cataloging changes to get patrons information quicker but challenges the traditional attributes of good cataloging.
3. How to Get OCLC To Listen To Us
OCLC provides valuable services for ILL. How can we share our concerns with this powerful vendor?
4. Innovation Can Come From Us
ILLiad was created at Virginia Tech, but it is only one of the exciting ideas originating in libraries.
5. Rethinking Resource Sharing: The Future of Interlibrary Loan.
A movement, we should join, started with a manifesto in 2005 to “rethink resource sharing for the 21^st century.”

PART II: ADDING PERSONALIZED HIGH QUALITY SERVICE
6. Don’t Just Say “No” When Faced With Rules and Policies
Follow ALA codes as well as Copyright law and CONTU guidelines. Review library policies and agreements.
7. Showing Users What They Missed In the Library: ILL as Reference
Patrons request obscure materials but overlook items in the collection. Collaborate with reference and others.
8. Buy or Borrow: Getting What the Patron Needs
Buying books unavailable in the region gives patrons a collection building role. These books don’t gather dust.
9. Conundrums: A Confusing and Difficult Problem or Question
They include Cancellations, Cataloging, Challenges, Citations, Cooperation, Codes, and most of all Cost.
10. Going Global Is Easier Than You Think
Overseas services, shipping procedures, and payment methods will all be explained.
11. On the Spot ILL: What We Could Do better With the ALA Form
Serve consortial patrons, but also others with need clearly stated needs and proof of home library responsibility.
12. Enhancing Discovery: Taking an Interest in Local Stuff
Collect campus and regional publications to prepare for an ILL request tracking provenance.

Appendix 1: Code of Ethics of the American Library Association
Appendix 2: Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States
Appendix 3: Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States Explanatory Supplement
Appendix 4: ALA and ARL Response to the Section 108 Study Group Regarding Interlibrary Loan and Other Copies for Users
Appendix 5: Interlibrary Loans: ALA Library Fact Sheet Number 8
Appendix 6: Five Things Every New Resource Sharing Librarian Should Know
Appendix 7: About IFLA
Appendix 8: IFLA Guidelines for Best Practice in Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery
Appendix 9: Illinois State Library: Libraries Very Interested in Sharing (LVIS) Factsheet