[PADG:1202] Re: Queuing digital collections

["Walter Cybulski" <CYBULSKW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

             One Hundred Monographs

             One hundred monographs.
             Fifty thousand screens.
             Shall I dare to download each?
             Shall I read them at the beach?
             On my laptop in the sand,
             or the pilot in my hand.
             One hundred monographs.
             Fifty thousand screens.
             So few really good optometrists.
             
- I.T. Ludd
"A Yawp In The Wilderness" (Washington, DC: Trifocal Press, 2001)

>>> gertz@xxxxxxxxxxxx 02/14/01 05:12PM >>>
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> Dear Folks: I am working on a digital project that intends to digitize 1000 
> monographs.  In discussing this project with Cataloging, I was asked if 
> there were other ways to let the preservation community know of our 
> intentions to digitize this material instead of title by title queuing.  At 
> my library all cataloging is done on the local system and upload to the 
> utilities as a single step.  Queuing (RLIN) or Prospective Cataloging 
> (OCLC) requires two separate steps - one at the beginning and one at the 
> end of the project.  This is costly and labor intense.  Has anyone come up 
> with a less complicated system?   Is there a single web site being used to 
> announce intentions to digitize a collection?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Joan Gatewood
> University of Michigan Library
> Preservation Division
> joangate@xxxxxxxxx 
> 

I think it is important to note decisions like this in RLIN/OCLC where
they are in a context where people can also see whether preservation
microfilm already exists, how many libraries own the title, etc.  It's
all part of the decision-making process.

Does your library plan to catalog the digitized titles into RLIN or
OCLC eventually anyway?  It is a cost, but we've been doing it with
microfilm for years.

Janet Gertz
Director for Preservation
Columbia University Libraries
101c Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027
212 854-5757
fax 212-854-3290
gertz@xxxxxxxxxxxx