[PADG:1204] Re: Queuing digital collections

[Joan Gatewood <joangate@xxxxxxxxx>]

I needed this!  Thank you.  Joan

--On Thursday, February 15, 2001 7:13 AM -0500 Walter Cybulski 
<CYBULSKW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>              One Hundred Monographs
>
>              One hundred monographs.
>              Fifty thousand screens.
>              Shall I dare to download each?
>              Shall I read them at the beach?
>              On my laptop in the sand,
>              or the pilot in my hand.
>              One hundred monographs.
>              Fifty thousand screens.
>              So few really good optometrists.
>
> - I.T. Ludd
> "A Yawp In The Wilderness" (Washington, DC: Trifocal Press, 2001)
>
>>>> gertz@xxxxxxxxxxxx 02/14/01 05:12PM >>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Folks: I am working on a digital project that intends to digitize
>> 1000  monographs.  In discussing this project with Cataloging, I was
>> asked if  there were other ways to let the preservation community know
>> of our  intentions to digitize this material instead of title by title
>> queuing.  At  my library all cataloging is done on the local system and
>> upload to the  utilities as a single step.  Queuing (RLIN) or
>> Prospective Cataloging  (OCLC) requires two separate steps - one at the
>> beginning and one at the  end of the project.  This is costly and labor
>> intense.  Has anyone come up  with a less complicated system?   Is there
>> a single web site being used to  announce intentions to digitize a
>> collection?
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Joan Gatewood
>> University of Michigan Library
>> Preservation Division
>> joangate@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>
> I think it is important to note decisions like this in RLIN/OCLC where
> they are in a context where people can also see whether preservation
> microfilm already exists, how many libraries own the title, etc.  It's
> all part of the decision-making process.
>
> Does your library plan to catalog the digitized titles into RLIN or
> OCLC eventually anyway?  It is a cost, but we've been doing it with
> microfilm for years.
>
> Janet Gertz
> Director for Preservation
> Columbia University Libraries
> 101c Butler Library
> 535 West 114th Street
> New York, NY 10027
> 212 854-5757
> fax 212-854-3290
> gertz@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>