*Cross posted to multiple lists.*

Core e-Forum: Regarding Library Database Cleanup

December 8-9, 2020

Moderated by Julene Jones, Emily Williams, and Susan Wynne

Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!

Registration information is at the end of the message.

Each day, discussion begins and ends at:

Pacific: 7 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Mountain: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Central: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Eastern: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Library metadata rarely remains static. We need to clean up data for many reasons: changing metadata schemes, practices, or purchasing vendors, system migrations, incorrect or missing data, physical moves of resources, “cataloging anomalies”, etc. In this e-Forum, participants will share tools, techniques, advice, and best practices for both batch and manual database cleanup projects of all types of data: bibliographic, acquisition, and patron data. 

Moderators

Julene Jones is the interim coordinator of library assessment at the University of Kentucky. Prior to this she was the Head of Database Integrity at the University of Kentucky where she was responsible for many things, but primarily for running reports, maintaining the consistency of the database, and authority control.

Emily Williams is the Cataloging & Metadata Librarian at Georgia State University. Her claim to fame is inadvertently avoiding GSU’s library consolidation while serving as Kennesaw State University’s Metadata and Resource Management Librarian. She returned to GSU after their ILS migration was complete. Her responsibilities are varied, and a main focus is wrangling the one-time ebook purchases and licensed streaming videos. Batch cataloging wouldn’t be in her vocabulary if it weren’t for Susan Wynne.

Susan Wynne is the Discovery & Metadata Librarian at the University of Wyoming. Previously, she was the Catalog Management Librarian (aka catalog wrangler) at the University of Iowa, and Cataloging & Metadata Librarian at Georgia State University. Her favorite database maintenance project is deleting records and her first approach to any problem, in work or life, is to make a spreadsheet.

What Is an e-Forum?

A Core e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss matters of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion list. The e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register your email address with the list, and then you will receive messages and communicate with other participants through an email discussion. Most e-forums last two to three days. Registration is necessary to participate, but it's free.

For information about upcoming e-forums, please visit http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum

How to Register

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If you have any problems, please contact alcts-eforum-request@lists.ala.org.

*Posted on behalf of the Core Continuing Education Committee.*