[Eril-l] ACRL TSIG program and meeting at ALA Midwinter

[Erin Finnerty]

Please join the ACRL Technical Services Interest Group (TSIG) for three
exciting presentations and a very brief business meeting at ALA Midwinter
in Seattle on *Saturday, January 26 from 4:30-5:30PM in Washington State
Convention Center, Room 211.*
Hope to see you there!
Erin Finnerty* (*erinf at temple.edu)
Cynthia Romanowski (cromanowski at govst.edu)
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*Following the BIBFLOW Roadmap: First Steps toward a Linked Data
Environment*
Marcia Barrett, Cataloging & Metadata Strategies Librarian
University of California, Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz Library recently enhanced bibliographic data with identifiers
to facilitate the eventual reuse of MARC data as Linked Data. The project
was a result of Associate University Librarian Kerry Scott’s desire to
position the library system for a linked data environment. Uniform Resource
Identifiers, or URIs, were a topic of great discussion in the library
community in 2017. The consensus was that the first step in preparation for
Linked Data was moving from “strings” of bibliographic data to “things,”
machine-actionable identifiers that uniquely identify things on the
Semantic Web. Based on recommendations from the Program for Cooperative
Cataloging Task Group on URIs in MARC and the BIBFLOW roadmap report
produced by UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz Library added URIs to controlled access
points in local MARC records as the first step toward a Linked Data
bibliographic environment.
This presentation will include what to consider when adding URIs to MARC
data, why this is an important first step, and options for achieving URI
enrichment.

*Benchmarking Vended Authority Control Practices*
Rebecca L. Mugridge, Dean of University Libraries
Nancy Poehlmann, Head of Metadata Services
University at Albany, SUNY
In this presentation the authors will share the results of a study designed
to benchmark the use of vendors to support authority control activities in
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries. Such activities
include updating authority or bibliographic records, sourcing authority
records, participation in cooperative cataloging efforts, and more. The
authors designed a survey and sent it to the Heads of Cataloging or
Authority Control Librarians of ARL Libraries. The survey investigated
whether and how responding libraries used vendors to create and maintain an
authority file and process current cataloging records. The survey gathered
demographic and other information about the libraries, and the authors
identified trends and correlations between these and other factors. Data
gathered included information about how current cataloging is managed, how
authority files are kept up to date, future plans regarding the use of
vendors for authority control functions, and more. The authors will share
their findings, note trends in vended authority control processes, and make
recommendations for further research.

*New Take on Name Authority Control in a Digital Repository*
Marina Morgan, Metadata Librarian
Florida Southern College
The focus of the presentation is the analysis of name authority control in
the Florida Southern College Digital Repository to determine the extent to
which faculty researchers are represented in researcher identifier
databases. A purposive sample of 50 faculty authors were compared against
five different databases: Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF),
Scopus, Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID), Virtual International
Authority File (VIAF), and International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI).
The findings show that while LCNAF and Scopus results are comparable, the
difference in the ORCID, VIAF, and ISNI are considerable. Additionally, the
results show that the majority of authors are represented in two or three
external databases. This has implications for enhancing local authority
data by linking to external identifier authority data to augment
institutional repository metadata.
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