In May, Wayne Sanders attended NACO series training at the Library of Congress. This means that the Catalog Department is now able to add authority records for series to OCLC WorldCat. In addition, the Library of Congress incorporates these records into their authority file. Prior to this training we were only able to create local records for MERLIN. Now the series authority records we create will be used by libraries worldwide and will ensure consistency in the work we all do.
April 17th, 2008
Time: 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Place: Library Instruction Room 1
Presenters: Ann Riley, Wayne Sanders and Kate Anderson
The University of Missouri is developing an institutional repository using the open source DSpace software. The installation is called MO-Space, and is patterned after successful efforts at other research institutions. Open to all campuses of the University system, but focusing on MU presently, MO-Space aims to preserve and provide open access to scholarly products of the University. Several task forces and committees have been involved, a pilot was developed, and much work still needs to be done to populate the repository. An important element is finding grey literature, born digital items and other things not accessible in commercial databases. Harvard College’s faculty vote to encourage faculty to deposit their research in open access sources is encouraging also. The process of expanding MO-Space is developing. Come learn how this important effort in the preservation of scholarship is going at MU.
Some sites to help explain this :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/committees/institutionalrepository/DigInstRep.htm
and a few examples
https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/
http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/dpo/cds.html
Release time for staff to attend this program is available with supervisor approval.
Wayne Sanders presented the paper “Libraries and Their Role in Icarian Utopias of the United States,” at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association’s Annual Conference in Albuquerque on Feb. 15th.