Pub Date : 2020-11-11DOI: 10.5860/lrts.64n4.177-184
J. Abbott
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library collected college and university publications (the C-Collection) for several decades without allocating the resources to catalog them. A project to make these items discoverable by patrons was initiated, and tens of thousands of items were added to the online catalog. These items were physically stabilized and transferred to the library’s high-density storage facility. A portion of the collection was also digitized, providing electronic access. Although circulation trended downward, there was no clear indication that materials were less accessible in high-density storage, and new items were discovered that had not previously circulated. Digital surrogates of library material clearly allowed the library to reach a much larger audience, and ideal storage conditions to preserve physical materials long-term combined with electronically available copies appear to be an ideal means for providing greater access while preserving content.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-31DOI: 10.5860/lrts.64n3.102-103
M. B. Weber
The past year has been one that I never could have predicted. As I entered what I thought was my final year as LRTS Editor, I was diagnosed with a debilitating neurological condition that required me to miss three months of work. I also missed the 2019 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC, since I was hospitalized during the week of the conference. I continued to edit papers and correspond with authors during that time. Fortunately, I had just one author withdraw a paper because I could not promise the turnaround time on her paper for which she had hoped. I am indebted to Brooke Morris-Chott, ALCTS’s communications program officer, and Tim Clifford, manager, ALA Productions Services, for their support during a challenging time.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-31DOI: 10.5860/lrts.64n3.131-138
Todd Quinn
This case study describes the consolidation and migration of the University of New Mexico’s University Libraries’ database A-Z lists. A subject librarian lead the nine-month project that included most subject librarians, the electronic resources team, the Director of Collections, and the web & discovery librarian. The project also provided the UL the opportunity to review all the resources in the lists, and update all descriptions, and create new workflows for adding and managing a single list.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-31DOI: 10.5860/lrts.64n3.140-141
K. Davis
From the moment that author Ana Vukadin invokes the memory of small-town murder victim Laura Palmer on page one of Metadata for Transmedia Resources, the reader is transported into a world of intertextuality, transfictionality, and various fictional worlds that seem stranger and yet just as familiar as Twin Peaks. Using liberal amounts of examples from popular culture and literary canons—from J. K. Rowling’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter to the Wachowskis’ Matrix—Vukadin goes down the veritable rabbit hole of transmedia resources, explains why transmedia resources matter increasingly to libraries, and outlines best practices in describing and organizing the metadata for transmedia resources. Resplendent with modeling examples and illustrations from fictional worlds, the subtle differences in and complexity of transmedia resources becomes clear.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-31DOI: 10.5860/lrts.64n3.104-105
J. Bowen
While attending my first meeting of the ALCTS Executive Committee in April 2018, I learned about an idea being advanced by the executive directors of ALCTS, LITA, and LLAMA, that the three divisions consider joining forces to create a single ALA division. Their rationale was that this action would provide better value for members of all three divisions, enabling collaboration and staffing efficiencies across administrative silos within ALA. Since the three divisions were slowly but continuously losing members, joining would proactively address the looming concern that the separate divisions would become financially unsustainable as their membership declined.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-31DOI: 10.5860/lrts.64n3.139-139
D. Nolting
This small book is a concise guide to understanding something that may not be a profound part of libraries in the future. This book explains the basics of blockchain that library personnel will need to know in the event something like it replaces the current data structures of information management. As stated in the introduction, it is “not a guide or manual, but a conversation starter,” and the grant-subsidized research by the co-editors spearheads the complimentary chapters in an orderly manner (xi). Blockchain, with its time-stamped transactions residing in “safe” locations, is a concept that seems the be here to stay.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-31DOI: 10.5860/lrts.64n3.106-119
Keren Dali, Leah K. Brochu
This article, written on the intersection of public and technical services, proposes a conceptual and theoretical foundation of advocacy for integrating audiobooks into library collections and programs. Suggestions are made primarily with librarians in public libraries in mind, although it is hoped that academic and special librarians will also benefit from them; these suggestions build on the analysis of the rising popularity of audiobooks as an accessible medium and a medium of choice for leisure readers with and without disabilities. We look at the equal status for audiobooks and the wider acceptance of audiobooks through the combined lens of diversity and privilege. In our study, we survey extant literature (research-based, media, and social media publications); examine and synthesize it in a critical and innovative manner (e.g., by combining the social analysis of proliferating and diversified audiobooks with the notions of diversity and privilege); propose new ways of looking at the issues of advocacy and practice; and offer specific ideas for librarians to implement them. We argue that some anxieties and concerns about audiobooks and audio-reading, among others, can derive from different types of privileges held by professionals and social groups, which becomes particularly important when they are endowed with decision-making power; these privileges include the privilege of body ability; the privilege of lifestyle; the Western privilege; the privilege of literacy; privileging format over story; and the privilege of citizenship and language.
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