Browsing by Author "Wood, Aaron"

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    2019 le futur de la profession : énoncé de la vision développée au 10e Northern Exposure to Leadership
    (Association canadienne des bibliothèques, 2009) Gagnon, Émilie; Wood, Aaron; Sinotte, Michelle; Vokey, Sherri
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    Discovering the Next Generation of Library Search
    (2010-05-14T15:25:56Z) Pival, Paul R.; Brown, David; Wood, Aaron
    A few years ago Federated Search was touted as the best way to offer users access to multiple resources. But Federated Search turned out to be slow, difficult to maintain, and suspect with regards to search results. Over the past year a new breed of service has arisen: the Discovery Service. By searching pre-indexed (as opposed to live) data, discovery services return search results very quickly. This presentation discusses the University of Calgary Library's reasons for choosing to trial a Discovery Service after having run a Federated Search product for over a year. The presentation covers the technology used, some of the challenges encountered, and presents feedback from Library users.
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    eBook Discovery and Access: We Want It Now!
    (2010-06-08T12:52:03Z) Wood, Aaron; Davis, Corey
    As cataloging departments see decreases in staff resources but increases in the number of online titles requiring access for users, they are forced to consider new ways of managing catalog records and making material discoverable. This presentation covers the current ebook landscape, how discovery and access challenges can be met, and how the future landscape can be formed to better meet the needs of users. The presentation reviews how the University of Calgary and Royal Roads University facilitate discovery and access to ebooks currently. It also presents the results of a broader survey of access management techniques in academic libraries across Canada and the United States.
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    Equality of Retrieval: Leveling the Metadata Playing Field in Big Indexes
    (2010-03-04T21:04:10Z) Wood, Aaron
    The University of Calgary's Libraries and Cultural Resources became a beta partner with Serials Solutions’ unified discovery service, Summon, in the spring of 2009. Since then it has worked to include metadata from numerous disparate systems in a single index to drive discovery in a Google-like environment. The University has examined how MARC and other metadata schemas are mapped into Summon with an eye to ensuring the maximum possible population of index fields representing facets in addition to adhering to the established standards for cross mapping metadata schemas and indexing. It has investigated existing standards and worked closely with the Summon team to create mappings that reflect how MARC and other metadata can ultimately be used in big indexes. Combined with the normalization or collapsing of metadata records representing the same resource into a single metadata-rich record, fully leveraging MARC and other metadata in big indexes should not only level the metadata playing field but make competition between records a non-issue.
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    The Future of the Profession, 2019: Vision Statement of the 10th Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute
    (Canadian Library Association, 2009) Wood, Aaron; Gagnon, Emilie; Sinotte, Michelle; Vokey, Sherri
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    Let Me See That eBook: Managing Cataloguing and Access through Collaboration
    (2010-04-06T18:51:05Z) Wood, Aaron; Harris, Anne; Shetler, Jim; Wolf, Aron
    Electronic resources have become a vital part of research collections. Online journals and databases are solidly planted in academic library collections and in the research habits of faculty and students. Over the past several years, academic libraries have seen this increasing demand for electronic resources expand into electronic books. Collection budgets have shifted to meet this demand through the increased acquisition of electronic books and electronic book packages. However, the sheer number of titles involved has made providing digital access to electronic books through traditional cataloguing extremely challenging. It has become clear that traditional in-house cataloguing of electronic books is neither feasible nor sustainable, even with cooperative cataloguing tools such as Z39.50 and WorldCat. And as cataloguing departments see decreases in staff resources but increases in the number of titles requiring access for users, they are forced to consider new ways of managing catalogue records. Like many other institutions, the University of Calgary has chosen to use external sources of catalogue records for electronic books. It has become evident from doing so that publishers, academic libraries, vendors, and library service providers need to collaborate on an expanded scale in order to ensure sustainable workflows for academic institutions and the best possible digital access for users. This paper covers the challenges that the University of Calgary has faced with electronic book cataloguing and digital access and its new-found success in managing these activities by partnering with Serials Solutions, Yankee Book Peddler (YBP), and ebrary. The focus is on the collaborative efforts made by all of these parties to make electronic resources available on a mass scale through the library catalogue and beyond.
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    Let Me See That Ebook: Managing Cataloguing and Access through Collaboration
    (2010-03-04T20:38:25Z) Wood, Aaron; Shetler, Jim; Wolf, Aron; Harris, Anne
    Electronic resources have become a vital part of research collections. Online journals and databases are solidly planted in academic library collections and in the research habits of faculty and students. Over the past several years, academic libraries have seen this increasing demand for electronic resources expand into electronic books. Collection budgets have shifted to meet this demand through the increased acquisition of electronic books and electronic book packages. However, the sheer number of titles involved has made providing digital access to electronic books through traditional cataloguing extremely challenging. It has become clear that traditional in-house cataloguing of electronic books is neither feasible nor sustainable, even with cooperative cataloguing tools such as Z39.50 and WorldCat. And as cataloguing departments see decreases in staff resources but increases in the number of titles requiring access for users, they are forced to consider new ways of managing catalogue records. Like many other institutions, the University of Calgary has chosen to use external sources of catalogue records for electronic books. However, in order to ensure sustainable workflows for academic institutions and the best possible digital access for users, it has become evident that publishers, academic libraries, vendors, and library service providers need to collaborate on an expanded scale. This presentation covers the challenges that the University of Calgary has faced with electronic book cataloguing and its new-found success in managing this cataloguing by partnering with Serials Solutions, Yankee Book Peddler, and ebrary. The focus is on the collaborative efforts made by all of these parties, and many individual publishers, to make electronic resources available on a mass scale through the library catalogue and beyond.