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Managing eBook Metadata in Academic Libraries - Taming the Tiger (Paperback)
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Managing eBook Metadata in Academic Libraries - Taming the Tiger (Paperback)
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Managing ebook Metadata in Academic Libraries: Taming the Tiger
tackles the topic of ebooks in academic libraries, a trend that has
been welcomed by students, faculty, researchers, and library staff.
However, at the same time, the reality of acquiring ebooks, making
them discoverable, and managing them presents library staff with
many new challenges. Traditional methods of cataloging and managing
library resources are no longer relevant where the purchasing of
ebooks in packages and demand driven acquisitions are the
predominant models for acquiring new content. Most academic
libraries have a complex metadata environment wherein multiple
systems draw upon the same metadata for different purposes. This
complexity makes the need for standards-based interoperable
metadata more important than ever. In addition to complexity, the
nature of the metadata environment itself typically varies slightly
from library to library making it difficult to recommend a single
set of practices and procedures which would be relevant to, and
effective in, all academic libraries. Considering all of these
factors together, it is not surprising when academic libraries find
it difficult to create and manage the metadata for their ebook
collections. This book is written as a guide for metadata
librarians, other technical services librarians, and ancillary
library staff who manage ebook collections to help them understand
the requirements for ebook metadata in their specific library
context, to create a vision for ebook metadata management, and to
develop a plan which addresses the relevant issues in metadata
management at all stages of the lifecycle of ebooks in academic
libraries from selection, to deselection or preservation.
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