June 17, 2015
NISO Virtual Conference: The Eternal To-Do List: Making Ebooks work in Libraries
Cataloging & Metadata for Ebooks
Erica Findley, Cataloging/Metadata Librarian, Multnomah County Library
Sandy Macke, Catalog and Metadata Administrator, Multnomah County Library
1. Making e-books discoverable at
Multnomah County Library
NISO Virtual Conference: The Eternal To-Do List: Making Ebooks work in Libraries
June 17, 2015
Erica Findley & Sandra Macke
2. Who we are
Mission
Multnomah County Library enriches lives by fostering diverse opportunities for all people to read, learn
and connect.
Multnomah County Library upholds the principles of intellectual freedom and the public's right to know
by providing people of all ages with access and guidance to information and collections that reflect all
points of view.
Users
Total Population: 735,334
Card Holders: 425,000
3. What we load
OverDrive - e-books, streaming audiobooks
3M - e-books
Hoopla - Streaming music, video, and audiobooks
Marcive - Government documents
EBL - Patron Driven Acquisitions
Serial Solutions - eJournals
One time/sporadic loads - Alexander Street Press, GVRL,
etc.
4. OverDrive
● Our primary e-book platform
● ~175 purchases each week and growing
Challenges
★ Duplicate purchases
★ New and popular titles
★ List management
6. OverDrive sample load table edits
1. Mat type changed from i to q or a to z by mattype translation table
2. 020-024 tags not loaded
3. 099 added - Overdrive downloadable ebook
4. 240 tags not loaded
5. 245|h changed from electronic resource to downloadable e-book
6. 500 tag added at top of group
7. 655 tag added at top of group
8. 710 OverDrive tag added in group
9. Item record created
7. Challenges
● Duplicate SkyRiver ID numbers between
vendors
● Tracking what is moving between OverDrive
and SkyRiver and our catalog
● Turnaround time
8. 3M Cloud Library
● One of our main e-book platforms
● ~150 purchases each week
Challenges
★ Duplicate titles
★ New and popular titles
★ Discovery layer integration
19. Images
● Young man, possibly Ted Hood on board MAGDALENE VINNEN https://flic.kr/p/eNHQq4
● Eerste schooldag van een weerbarstige leerling / An unruly pupil's first day at school
https://flic.kr/p/6YydMV
● [womabt] Cary Bay Zoo, Lake Macquarie, NSW, 1954 / Sam Hood https://flic.kr/p/5XP1jN
Notas del editor
Talk about how many locations we have, ratio of electronic to print, Service principles like Think Yes...
Show the giver
About 3M
150 titles purchased each week about 1/3rd are duplicate titles purchased when we have 4 or more holds on a title
103,131 check outs per year and ~4,000 unique users per month
Challenges for record management
We get records for duplicate copies
These are new and popular titles and there is anticipation so we need to make sure we are loading records often and regularly
Patrons use our Bibliocommons discovery layer to check out and place holds on items
Why we chose vendor records
Sky river was taking a long time to process
Vendor records were good enough and we could get them on demand
Single records for platform integration, customization, and maintenance (multiple vendors same titles)
Quality MARC format, minimal subjects, and no audience code, good summaries and TOC
Vendor records already have: 856 link
About marcedit
About MarcEdit Tasks
With a MarcEdit Script we: delete extra 856 links to cover images, copy audience note to 500, add 538 information, change the gmd to [downloadable ebook]
So we can provide browse ability with books in same format
Load table set to reject duplicate records. So, in Sierra, I do a test load first and look at number of rejected titles against a purchase report to make sure it is as expected.
Sometimes duplicate titles in same load.
Using Global update in Sierra Change | audience code based on 500 note (delete 500 note). This is so that it shows up in the apporpriate audience facet in Bibliocommons. We buy juvenile, teen, and adult titles through 3m
Electronic Resources Selector deletes bibliographic records as needed
Troubleshooting incorrect links via our cataloging corrections form and working with selector
Separate records make this management easy peasy.
Multimedia streaming platform with TV shows, videos, audiobooks, and music
We do not select content except for some general things like PA on music not explicit we get everything, hoopla offers a most popular record set, initial load was ~125,000
94,283 uses last year 3,000 unique users per month
High volume of monthly records and music is growing )last month ~17,000 titles
Calendar reminder
Why we chose vendor records: could not keep up with volume
Quality MARC format, no subjects, OK title, summaries, and track listings
Run different tasks in MarcEdit on TV, movies, music, and audio books. This is a snippet of the movies ones that show we do try to replace some of the genre headings with LA terms we also add verbiage to the 856 link and delete a lot of the markers hoopla has in their records.
We have one load table each for audio and video. That is because the material type, call # and gmd for those are different.
We make a couple changes to the material type for audio so that they show as audiobooks in the catalog instead of streaming music. We change call # and material type.
One of the few on Bibliocommons
Canned searches
Divergent search to illustrate
New title page in Bibliocommons
Oceans end of the lane call #
Divergent format and audience
New titles page