Recorded Wednesday, December 4, 2024. On Demand – Access for a year post event.
ELUNA learns – Resource Management
- 1:00 pm – 1:05 pm. Introduction
- 1:05 pm – 1:50 pm. Reparative Cataloging in the Washington Research Library Consortium
- 1:50 pm – 2:00 pm. Break
- 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm. Lightening Round Talks
- 2:00 pm – 2:25 pm. Enhancing Your Spreadsheet Reports With “Excel Alma Lookup”
- 2:25 pm – 2:50 pm. Creating DEIA Activities in Alma for the Cataloging Team at University of Tennessee Libraries
- 2:50 pm – 3:00 pm. Break
- 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm. Location, Location, Location: Revamping the Request for New Location Process
Note, schedule times are approximate. Schedule may shift slightly during the event.
Reparative Cataloging in the Washington Research Library Consortium. Jen Froetschel, Metadata Services Librarian, George Washington University; Jacqueline Saavedra, Consortial Network Zone Manager, Washington Research Library Consortium.
Librarians across the profession are actively practicing and implementing reparative description in order to mitigate the biases found within our metadata and help highlight work going on around the profession. This session describes the specific reparative cataloging efforts within the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC), and how these initiatives translate to various Alma workflows (authority definitions, normalization rules, local metadata extensions, and local display fields in Primo), as well as initiatives outside of Alma and Primo to communicate ongoing reparative cataloging work across the profession.
Enhancing Your Spreadsheet Reports With “Excel Alma Lookup”. Thomas Ventimiglia, Computing Support Analyst, Princeton University East Asian Library.
The “Excel Alma Lookup” tool (https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/appcenter/excel-alma-lookup/) is a free Excel plugin developed by Princeton University Library. It allows users to take a list of identifiers from a spreadsheet (such as MMS IDs, ISBNs, OCLC Numbers, etc.), search for them in the catalog, and output the results in the same spreadsheet. It can be used to extract any bibliographic field from the retrieved records, including those not available by default in Analytics or other reporting methods. This presentation will explain how to set up and use the tool, some common use cases, and new features in development for future versions, including the ability to search WorldCat.
Creating DEIA Activities in Alma for the Cataloging Team at University of Tennessee Libraries . Anchalee Panigabutra-Roberts, Associate Professor and Head of Cataloging, University of Tennessee Libraries; David Scott, Cataloger, University of Tennessee Libraries.
At the University of Tennessee Libraries, we created DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility) projects for our catalogers based on their individual interests and expertise. This presentation will highlight individual catalogers’ DEIA projects to enhance access in our local Alma and WorldCat catalogs. Their projects range from enhancing catalog records for a local collection for Black and Latinx music composers, ensuring access to books receiving literary awards from National Associations of Librarians of Color (NALCo), adding DEI-related subject and genre terms from the Library of Congress vocabularies and other vocabularies, such as Homosaurus, to general books’, comic books’ and streaming videos’ catalog records; to adding and assessing accessibility metadata in videos’ catalog records. We will conclude the presentation by linking our projects with the national and international DEIA-related efforts.
Location, Location, Location: Revamping the Request for New Location Process. Margaret Alexander, Core Systems Librarian, University of Oregon.
Updated presentation from ELUNA 2024: Are you tired of the same old, boring policy reviews? Do you struggle to find the time to updates your processes and procedures? This session will give you and overview of our work to revise and update our “Request for New Location” processes and procedures. We realized our old written process had not been thoroughly revamped since before we moved to Alma and Primo, and our software and policy ecosystem has unsurprisingly expanded and changed since then. Attendees will not only potentially laugh and cry at our trials and tribulations, but may leave with a plethora of ideas that can be applied to your own institutional processes.