New Tables of Contents

You will now notice that many Chinook records have embedded Table of Contents, containing chapter/article titles and author names, if any. The author names are hyperlinked so that you can navigate from the article author to other works that author may have written. You can also search the chapter titles and chapter authors when known. This may be particularly helpful when you have the citations for chapter titles and authors from a citation database.

Here are a few examples:

• Handbook of instructional communication : rhetorical and relational perspectives
• Post-Impressionism to World War II
• Cultural diversity and education : foundations, curriculum, and teaching (only the 2006 imprint)
• Research methods : a qualitative reader

Monographs with 2006 imprints have been retrospectively enriched. This test case showed that 15,797 out of 25,248 records (63%) have enriched ToC available. Collection Development set aside funds to provide ongoing ToC enrichment. Acquisitions and C&MS are working out a process for 2007 imprints and new acquisitions. This is made possible through a highly collaborative effort between Acquisitions, C&MS, Collection Development, Reference and Systems departments, in particular John Culshaw and Meredith Callahan.

If you have any questions or feedback about this new feature, please contact Jina Wakimoto.

Batch-loaded Records Galore!

Cataloging & Metadata Services has batch-loaded over 12,690 MARC records for monographs since January, 2007. Batch-loading of records provides timely access to electronic books, including the campus' electronic theses and dissertations, and to records for Asian language hard-copy books the Libraries acquires but for which it does not have catalogers with the language expertise. Batch-loading also provides access to full bibliographic records for individual titles in large microform sets.

Batch-loaded e-book records this year have included titles in the ACLS Humanities E-Book, ENGnetBASE, ENVIROnetBASE, Knovel Library, Oxford Reference Online Collection, the SPIE Digital Library, and CU Boulder theses and dissertations. For the microform set, English and American Drama of the Nineteenth Century, 10,932 records were loaded.

Last year an exceptionally large set of 136,211 e-book records was batch-loaded for Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

Historical Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Digitized and Cataloged

The C&MS Digital Resources Cataloging Team and the CU Map Library are pleased to announce that they have nearly completed a pilot project to employ emerging metadata standards to provide access to a digitized portion of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection. The digital collection covers the years 1883-1922, spanning 79 cities and 52 counties in Colorado. The maps can be accessed directly from the University Libraries’ Digital Asset Library (DIAL), which allows for downloads of high-resolution images, or from the online interface that facilitates a geographic/spatial browsing of the maps.

The Map Library created separate MARC bibliographic records for the print and electronic versions of all 346 of the maps in the project, and added those records to the OCLC WorldCat, Chinook, and Prospector databases. The digitization of these multi-sheet maps resulted in the production of approximately 2,385 digital images. To manage the intricate relationships between the individual sheets and the maps to which they belong, the team implemented a project to use the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) for resource description, the NISO Metadata for Images in XML Schema (MIX) for technical metadata for digital still images, and the Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard (METS) to bring together all of the descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata for these complex digital objects in a single XML environment. As a part of the project, and with funds committed by the Map Library, a METS generation tool was developed to (1) produce descriptive MODS records from existing MARC records in Chinook, and (2) use the METS encoding scheme to wrap the MODS records with their corresponding image and MIX files.

The next phase of the project will be to develop a plan to use the structural metadata encoded in the METS records to provide additional functionality in the online interface. The METS generation tool will continue to be used to provide METS records for future digitization of Sanborn maps, as well as other digital projects within the Libraries.

The Digital Resources Cataloging Team would like to thank Katie Lage, Laura Wright, Michael Dulock, and Holley Long for collaborating on the metadata provision component on the project. Additional thanks go to Faisal Ahmad, of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Computer Science Department, who developed the programming for the METS generation tool.

Questions about the metadata portion of this digitization project can be directed to Chris Cronin.

Special Collections Publisher's Bindings Digitized

The Special Collections/Archives Cataloging team, the Digital Projects Advisory Group and Special Collections have been working together on a project to digitize the covers of books in the Publisher's Bindings collection. These cover images are available in Chinook and can be found by searching for the subject "Pictoral cloth bindings" (note: not every record has cover images) and looking for items with "Digital images".

American publishers from about 1815 to 1930 encased their hardback books in cloth covers called publisher's bindings. These covers ranged from the simple to the fantasic, and are a fascinating window into American history, society, and culture from that period. For more online information about Publisher's Bindings, visit Publisher's Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books. To see any of these beautiful book covers in person (including many not yet available online), visit the Special Collections Department in Norlin Library.

Cataloging Backlog Eliminated!

Due to the efforts of the many members of the Monographic Cataloging team, as well as Acquisitions and Marking staff, our backlog of books waiting for copy cataloging has been reduced from nearly 6 months over a year ago to less than a few days. This means that books will be arriving on the shelf much more quickly than they used to and patrons will not be waiting long for books they have requested. Congratulations to everyone on great work!

Welcome

This is the new blog of the Cataloging and Metadata Services (CMS) Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder. It will serve to keep the library and university community up to date with new developments, changes, and accomplishments of the department. If you have any questions about the blog or anything related to the CMS Department or the University Libraries at all, please don't hesitate to contact us.