09.EALC - 2021

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    COVID-19 IMPACT ON INFORMATION ORGANIZATION: DELIVERING INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SERVICES DURING A PANDEMIC [ARTICLE]
    (Nazarbayev University Library, 2021-06) Moyo, Lesley
    The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound and far-reaching impact on how we live and work all over the world. The year 2020 and the first part of 2021 were characterized with fear, uncertainty, and rapid change as society took shelter from the menacing pandemic. Yet, during the same time, we witnessed unprecedented transformation as various businesses and enterprises reinvented themselves to combat not only the deadly effects of the pandemic, but also the disruption it was causing in all sectors of life. Within higher education, libraries featured prominently among units rethinking their operations to effectively support the continuity of research, teaching, and learning in their respective institutions. As a result, creative ways of organizing, accessing, and delivering services and information despite the constraints of the pandemic emerged. We saw the birth of curbside services, the enhancement of electronic access to collections, the increase of digitization on demand, and the emphasis of virtual library services such as chat reference and online library classes...
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    COVID-19: IMPACTS ON INFORMATION ORGANIZATION, TRANSMISSION AND USE [ARTICLE]
    (Nazarbayev University Library, 2021-06) Abruzzi, Raymond
    The ways in which scholarly research outputs have been organized and disseminated have undergone some complete changes in the last decade, notably through the expansion of open access and the increased availability of such information outside of existing publishing channels. The crises related to COVID-19 and the demand for critical data and research findings needed to inform medical responses and public health and public policy decisions have increased the speed with which information has traveled along more traditional paths. However, they also resulted in a substantial shift to new paradigms of information organization and sharing, as well as some improvement in international collaborations. This shift is not entirely new. Researchers tackling the challenges of earlier health crises (e.g., those engaged with mitigating the health impacts of the 1918 Influenza) have called for changes in the way information is organized and shared, as well as for greater collaboration among nations and institutions...
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    DOCUMENTATION OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES AS CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE OF PRESERVING INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE IN EURASIA [ARTICLE]
    (Nazarbayev University Library, 2021-06) Filchenko, Andrey Y.
    Based on contemporary estimates, between 50% and 80% of the world’s linguistic diversity will disappear during the 21st century. This means that out of estimated 6,500 languages currently spoken in the world, over 3,500 will seize to be used. While every language manifests a unique wealth of human knowledge accumulated over millennia, sadly multiple languages in Central and Northern Eurasia are at risk. Often, these languages and language varieties are little known outside their immediate communities and are less studied by the academic community, which exacerbates the problem even further
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    IMPLEMENTING BIBFRAME IN A PILOT PROJECT AT THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY[ARTICLE]
    (Nazarbayev University Library, 2021-06) Thompson, Timothy; Mugaburu, Daniel
    In the context of academic libraries in the United States, efforts to move from the MARC 21 formats to standards based on linked open data are currently underway. From 2018 to 2020, librarians at the Yale University Library took part in a larger initiative called Linked Data for Production. They carried out a pilot project to implement the Library of Congress BIBFRAME standard for original resource description. BIBFRAME is an extensible standard that can accommodate specialized description via domain-specific vocabularies such as the Art and Rare Materials (ARM) ontology extension
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    INTEGRATING AND LEVERAGING METADATA IN A SHARED ENVIRONMENT: THE UNIVERSITY OF MACAU EXPERIENCE [ARTICLE]
    (Nazarbayev University Library, 2021-06) Pun, Priscilla
    Library cataloging and metadata have been evolving since the mid-1990s, at the emergence and development of the World Wide Web and communication technologies. The purpose of the paper is to have a brief review of the development history of the cataloging and metadata practices of the University of Macau (UM) Library, in order to demonstrate the transitive changes from traditional cataloging to the promotion and preparation for structured data management, including the shift from static and single-source catalog to dynamic and multi-sources discovery platform. The value of the library’s bibliographic data is in sharing and reusing data locally, regionally and globally. Library cooperation and continuing education of the library staff are essential to this goal. A recent project entitled MALA Hub is introduced in the paper as well. It is a region-wide academic resource sharing project that initiated and launched its first phase in 2019, with the sponsorship of Macau SAR Government. The purpose of the project is to pool together, disclose, and share with each other all kinds of resources available for the nine library members of Macau Academic Library Alliance (MALA) in Macau, including physical pieces, consortium subscribed resources, individual library paid resources, open access resources, and in-house developed digital resources from the libraries and the community. In addition, derived from the MALA Hub by leveraging metadata integrated on the Hub, are several topic-specific resource portals suggested by the government and the community. The first topic-specific portal, Portuguese Portal (covering all available resources in Portuguese language), was launched at the end of 2019. More portals are planned to be launched in the near future, such as the Macau Study Portal, and the Specialized Collections Portal, among others.
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    MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: DIGITAL COLLECTIONS AND CURATION AT THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE LIBRARIES [ARTICLE]
    (Nazarbayev University Library, 2021-06) Ean, Lee Cheng
    Special Collections at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Libraries were established in 2016 with the mission to digitally showcase the many rare and distinctive titles in the NUS Libraries that until now have remained hidden in its large store of materials. Our vision is to be the research hub for Southeast Asian resources. Therefore, we are particularly focusing on digitizing materials on Singapore and Southeast Asia, which include our Singapore-Malaysia Collection, Southeast Asian Chinese Collection, Rare Books Collection, and Private Papers Collection. Digital Gems (https://digitalgems.nus.edu.sg/) is the result of our ongoing effort to showcase our unique and rare materials via open access. By putting these resources online for easy access, we hope researchers will use them in new ways to develop new ideas and projects in their various fields of study
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    NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC METADATA IN THE AGE OF MASS INFORMATION [ARTICLE]
    (Nazarbayev University Library, 2021-06) Koskas, Mathilde
    This is a report on the Bibliography Section of IFLA: its scope, activities, and role in promoting national bibliographies and national bibliographic metadata in this era of mass online information. National bibliographies, as comprehensive, standardized, and authoritative sources of information about the intellectual and cultural output of a country, have an important role to play today. This paper outlines the tools that the Bibliography Section of IFLA makes available to agencies that wish to build or maintain strong national bibliographies that can contribute to access, selection, and assessment of information
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    OFFICIAL OR ORIGINAL: IMPLEMENTING RESOURCE DESCRIPTION AND ACCESS (RDA) IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES AFTER THE 3R PROJECT [ARTICLE]
    (Nazarbayev University Library, 2021-06) Santos, Mark Anthony A.
    Since 2010, Resource Description and Access (RDA) has been used by many libraries around the world for the description of information resources. As of May 2021, two versions of RDA are available for use: the “original” and the “official” versions. With the release of the “official” version of RDA on December 15, 2020, libraries currently utilizing RDA will be expected to undergo the necessary preparations to transition to the “official” version of RDA. Implementation dates of the “official” version of RDA is up to the libraries and communities, as recommended by the RDA Steering Committee. While the “original” version of RDA will still be available during this transition period, eventually it will no longer be accessible interactively. This paper presents a brief overview of the status of implementation of RDA and recommendations for transition to the “official” version of RDA
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    RARE EPHEMERA FROM BOTH SIDES: A DIGITAL COLLECTIONS AND CURATION CASE STUDY OF RUSSIA (THE SOVIET UNION) AND ASIA [ARTICLE]
    (Nazarbayev University Library, 2021-06) Spencer, George Andrew
    This paper is a Digital Collections and Curation case study involving several very rare items that the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Special Collections has recently acquired. These items are in the process of being converted into open access digital collections to enhance access for scholars worldwide. The unifying theme of these materials is rare ephemera representing various stages of Russian-Asian relations. This paper focuses on the process of acquiring these very rare items, the partnership between subject specialist bibliographers and special collections librarians in curating these collections, collaboration with faculty in determining the potential research value and use cases for the materials, the physical and digital processing of such rare and fragile materials, the research involved in determining the historical context of the items, metadata creation in multiple languages, digital infrastructure, and the preservation of the physical originals.
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    RESOURCE DESCRIPTION AND ORGANIZATION: THE CASE OF AN ACADEMIC LIBRARY IN THE PHILIPPINES [ARTICLE]
    (Nazarbayev University Library, 2021-06) Fresnido, Ana Maria B.; Gonda, Jojie A.; Barsaga, Agnes S.
    Organization of information resources is one of the basic business processes carried out by libraries and archives. Such allows users to effectively and efficiently navigate the system to generate relevant search results. Data production usually follows international standards (e.g., MARC (machine-readable cataloging), AACR (American Cataloguing Rules), or RDA (Resource Description and Access)), to make it easy to exchange records between systems. This study investigated the experiences of an academic library in the Philippines in organizing and describing information sources, particularly its journey towards transitioning from AACR2 to RDA. The development of its institutional repository is likewise discussed, recounting the initiatives, strategies, and challenges encountered along the way. The case study design was used, with data gathered from firsthand experiences, interviews, and document analysis. Recommendations are forwarded to help direct policies and encourage support and participation from stakeholders
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    THE SUPPORT OF PEDAGOGICAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION BY SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION RESOURCES: EXPERIENCES OF THE REPUBLICAN SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOGICAL LIBRARY OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN [ARTICLE]
    (Nazarbayev University Library, 2021-06) Saidembayeva, Aliya
    The paper highlights the experiences of the Republican Scientific and Pedagogical Library (RNPB) of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of organizing scientific information on pedagogy and education. In the country, RNPB is the only library that has been publishing a national bibliography on topical issues of education since 1989. A distinctive feature of RNPB bibliographic publications is their complex content: in one guide for school libraries there are working-outs on different subjects, topics, classes, and age interests of learners of different types of educational institutions (primary, basic secondary, and general secondary schools). RNPB compiles recommended literature indexes for both schoolchildren and teachers...
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    WHY RDA? ORGANIZING BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY [ARTICLE]
    (Nazarbayev University Library, 2021-06) Oliver, Christine
    Resource Description and Access (RDA) is an international metadata standard designed to enable the discovery of library and cultural heritage resources in both traditional and linked data environments. RDA presents a new way of thinking about bibliographic information. RDA takes the focus of creating metadata to fulfill a user’s needs during the resource discovery process. It also breaks down strings of bibliographic information into entities and elements so that this information can be reliably processed as data by computers. RDA is based on a theoretical framework aligned with the internationally accepted bibliographic conceptual model, IFLA LRM; it is designed as a standard for the digital environment; it is developed as a global standard appropriate for use in many contexts. The scope of RDA has been broadening in response to international interest in the standard. The content of the standard is designed to be flexible, to offer choices and accommodate diverse practices. It has been deliberately designed to support use by an international audience. Using the same international standard also increases data interoperability around the globe. The governance structure has also been revised to support increased international participation in RDA development. This paper gives an overview of key features of RDA and outlines its impact on the usability and visibility of library bibliographic data. While many still operate in traditional cataloguing environments, RDA prepares us for the future environments in which libraries will function. ..