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Book: The supercharged library collection

Cover: Supercharged Library Collection

The supercharged library collection highlights the power of library metadata to inspire learners and to enhance collections by including shared knowledge from all communities.

The e-book covers:

  • What is a supercharged library collection?
  • Powering discoverability of e-content
  • Mobilizing group metadata for maximum impact
  • Harnessing data to reveal insights
  • Boosting visibility of libraries online
  • Gearing up for linked data

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IdRef : chantier qualité autour des notices d’autorité Collectivités pour les besoins de Mir@bel

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L’Abes (Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur) et le réseau Mir@bel s’associent pour améliorer le signalement et les métadonnées descriptives des ressources continues publiées par l’édition scientifique française. En s’appuyant sur IdRef pour l’identification et le signalement de l’ensemble des éditeurs français concernés, Mir@bel assure au référentiel un usage large, national et international.

Le portail Mir@bel facilite le signalement des publications en série et l’accès aux contenus disponibles en ligne, et complète les données présentes du Sudoc. Mir@bel est en lien, entre autres, avec le Centre international de l’ISSN, avec ISSN France, et avec des partenaires étrangers tels que le DOAJ.

The Russian State Library is to take over the duties of the Russian Book Chamber

On 26 January 2021, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin signed an order, transferring the duties of the Russian Book Chamber to the Russian State Library.

The merger of the two structures will lead to the emergence of the world’s largest national library and information fund, storing about 200 million documents. The merger of workflows, technologies, and best practices will eliminate duplication of efforts in such areas as cataloguing, accounting, and storage, streamline the digital transformation of the legal deposit system, reduce costs for publishers, and ultimately, improve compliance with the legal deposit regulations.

Managing metadata, managing hybridity

The OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus Group met in June 2021 to consider together the impact of the changes brought about by remote working. The group discussed how they have managed changes, what they have learned through them, and which are likely  to stick and why. Metadata managers from 40 institutions across seven countries shared their observations and experiences, demonstrating both continuation of and evolution from the issues they and their staff have been working through since library spaces and services were initially disrupted in 2020.

Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2020

The theme of the 2020 Charleston Conference was Quo Vadis – Where Are We Going?

The virtual Conference saw a surge in attendance with an almost 150% increase from 2019, and Conference attendees continued to remark on the informative and thought‐provoking sessions in a virtual environment.  The proceedings provide an overview of such subjects as collection development, management, end users, scholarly communication, and technology issues.

EBSCO Information Services Releases CAB Abstracts® with Full Text

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) releases CAB Abstracts® with Full Text, an applied life science database, enhanced by CABI’s high quality metadata and indexing experts. CAB Abstracts® with Full Text currently includes more than 1,200 active full-text journals and will grow to include more than 1,330 active full-text journals by December 2022. It adds to EBSCO’s wide variety of agriculture and food science resources, as well as biology and life sciences resources.

Learn more about CAB Abstracts with Full Text.

6e journée professionnelle Métadonnées en bibliothèques / 6th Conference Metadata in Libraries

Cette conférence organisée par la Bibliothèque nationale de France a eu lieu le 3 décembre 2021. La journée s’est articulée autour de l’entité « Expression » dans le modèle IFLA LRM et RDA-FR et la présentation d’outils mis à disposition des bibliothèques pour avancer dans la Transition bibliographique. La matinée a proposé une exploration de l’entité « Expression » à travers des exemples de mise en application avant d’aborder le versant plus technique et normatif de cette entité. L’après-midi s’est élargi aux outils et aux acteurs de la Transition bibliographique. Les vidéos et présentations sont en ligne sur la chaîne Youtube de la BnF.

This conference organised by the National library of France took place on 3 December 2021. The day was structured around the « Expression » entity in the IFLA LRM and RDA-FR model and the presentation of tools made available to libraries to advance in the Bibliographic Transition. The morning session explored the « Expression » entity through examples of its application before tackling the more technical and normative side of this entity. The afternoon session focused on the tools and groups of the Bibliographic Transition. The videos and presentations are online on the BnF’s Youtube channel.

Coeur bibliographique OEMI

The German Newspaper Portal

Historical newspapers are an important resource for academic research in various disciplines – particularly in Germany, where the newspaper sector is and always has been particularly diverse and prolific. The large-scale digitisation, full-text cataloguing and provision of online access to historical newspapers is an important desideratum. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has set up funding programmes in 2018 and 2019 to support this work. The Deutsche Zeitungsportal went online in October 2021 with almost 600,000 issues.

Lisa Landes, project manager for the German Digital Library (DDB), speaks about the German Newspaper Portal.

Les Balkans occidentaux : une culture commune en partage / The Western Balkans: a shared culture

La création de services partagés par les pays des Balkans occidentaux contribuent au rapprochement des professionnels et à la prise de conscience de leur histoire commune. Ces services leur permettent de collaborer dans trois domaines principaux : l’automatisation des tâches, y compris du catalogage, grâce au système commun Cobiss, la promotion des thèses de doctorat, et la valorisation de leur patrimoine documentaire numérisé via une bibliothèque numérique mutualisée.

The creation of shared services by the Western Balkan countries is helping to bring professionals closer together and to become aware of their common history. These services allow them to collaborate in three main areas: the automation of tasks, including cataloguing, thanks to the common Cobiss system, the promotion of doctoral theses, and the enhancement of their digitized documentary heritage via a shared digital library.