Presentation on developing strategies for reducing and managing cataloging backlogs, and prioritizing the discoverability of materials that represent voices of historically underrepresented communities at the University of Washington Libraries.

Recommendation from the Orbis Cascade Alliance Cataloging Standing Group and Network Zone Manager that the Alliance establish a central mechanism for replacing the Library of Congress Subject Heading “Illegal Aliens” with the recommended alternative term “Undocumented immigrants” in the Alliance shared ILS (Integrated Library ...

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Discussion paper from the Orbis Cascade Alliance Cataloging Standing Group on addressing controversial Library of Congress Subject Headings (specifically focused on the LCSH “Illegal Aliens”) in the Alliance shared ILS (Integrated Library System).

This presentation details how the University of Washington Libraries is using Alma, Alma APIs, Alma Analytics, and Microsoft Access to screen the quality of incoming catalog records in order to shunt titles to the appropriate level of cataloger.

In 2018 the University of Washington Libraries revamped its Cataloging Policy Committee, a group that primarily discussed national cataloging policies, into the Cataloging Policy and Practice Committee. The new iteration of the committee now serves as a forum for catalogers and cataloging stakeholders to plan and discuss ...

Designing work orders for technical services departments can be daunting to understand and apply on the first try. This presentation provides guidance on creating acquisitions, cataloging, and preservation work orders that facilitate, rather than hamper, interdepartmental workflows. Drawing on experience from 2 institutions, ...

HathiTrust provides limited access to online versions of works for member libraries when current or previously held print copies fall under Section 108 conditions: when print copies of works are damaged, deteriorating, lost or stolen, and a copy is not available on the market at a fair price. To qualify for access, the library ...

In a landscape of multiple metadata sources for E-Resource collections including the Primo Central Index, Alma’s Central KnowledgeBase, OCLC WorldShare Collection Manager, vendor record sets, locally curated metadata, and traditional title-by-title cataloging, how do technical services staff determine which source of metadata ...

Case study of interdepartmental collaboration between UW Libraries IT and Technical Services (Acquisitions and Cataloging) departments.