Subject: Re: Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
Gerry Mckiernan (GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:41:44 -0500
Message-Id: <s7c14fc1.038@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:41:44 -0500 From: "Gerry Mckiernan" <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu> To: arl-ejournal@arl.org Subject: Re: Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
_Re: Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals_
This is a response to my recent posting on the "Cataloging of
Multimedia E-Journals" which I posted last week. (The response was
originally posted to the DIGLIBNS list on 8/18)
It raises a number of related issues that were included in my post
and reports on a significant study that I believe will be of interest
to other lists and their members. The response below has been
re-posted with permission from Deborah Woodyard, PADI / Digital
Preservation National Library of Australia
/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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Gerry and list members,
We conducted a similar survey in 1996, but from a different angle,
we didn't have the titles we wanted information on but wanted to
find material in our collection that contained computer disk
components (see 5.2.2 in "Physical format electronic publications
in the National Library of Australia: report on a preservation survey"
http://www.nla.gov.au./nla/staffpaper/cwebb6.html). Your reaction to
your survey results sound very familiar to me. I was surprised at the
difficulty we had obtaining detailed information from the catalogue
records about the electronic components.
The collation field in the ILMS record for 400 items was checked for the
size and number of disks included in a publication - basic information
required for preservation management. Only 238 gave complete details.
And this did not include checking the system requirements recorded.
This information was not required under existing cataloguing guidelines
for disks accompanying print materials, but a few local practices have
now been modified and the result would be improved.
This has highlighted the gap that may exist between information
needed for current bibliographic access and that needed for long term
management, raising questions about how and where the latter should
be recorded.
I am pleased to see the cataloguing rules are being updated gradually.
See: Task Force on the Harmonization of ISBD(ER) and AACR2 Final Report
(Penultimate Draft): Executive Summary revised 14 June 1999:
http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/aacrer/tf-harm21.htm
And more current Internet cataloguing guidelines available linked from
the PADI web site at: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/internet.html#cat
Please excuse my possible ignorance of matters obvious to librarians,
but Gerry's message inspired me to share my experience.
Deborah
Deborah Woodyard
PADI / Digital Preservation
National Library of Australia
Canberra ACT 2600
AUSTRALIA
mailto:dwoodyar@nla.gov.au
ph: +61 2 6262 1366
PADI: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/
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