Metadata and Digital Library Services

Outreach Efforts

Metadata and Digital Library Services believes in providing innovative service to the campus community. To further that end, the department works with other units of the Libraries and with campus departments and centers to develop appropriate models to provide access to resources not owned by the Libraries. A full description of the options available to the campus community can be viewed at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/new/otheraccess.html . Three options have so far been implemented, as described below.

Cataloging Campus or Community Web Sites

The UO Libraries' online catalog provides the most comprehensive, centralized means that students, staff, and faculty of the University of Oregon have of learning about the wide variety of resources available to them. Most of the resources represented in the catalog are bibliographic in nature; however, there is a growing awareness on the campus of the potential for advertising a service or a program through the catalog. An example of a non-bibliographic resource can be found in the record for the UO Computing Center Documents Room. The Documents Room is a library and information resource center for the University of Oregon Computing Center which operates independently of the UO Libraries and has its own Web-based catalog. Catalog Department staff worked with the librarian of the Documents Room to create a record that would make people aware of its existence. The subject terms, notes, and added entries were developed in consultation with the Documents Room staff. Another example is the record created for the Eugene Public Library that provides a direct link for the UO Libraries' users to the public library's resources. The Eugene Public Library record helps to solidify a reciprocal borrowing arrangement recently established between the two libraries.

Cataloging University Collections Not Owned by the University of Oregon Libraries

For several years, Metadata and Digital Library Services has been providing bibliographic access through the Libraries' online catalog to materials in various departmental or campus center collection, when they requested it. The Libraries assume no responsibility for maintaining or providing physical access to the items. According to this model, the Libraries also do not share information about the items outside of the local catalog (via Summit or OCLC) so that the Libraries are not fielding interlibrary loan requests for them. A search in the online catalog under the title "queer family values" provides an example of what such a record looks like. A click on the location code of LGBTESS reveals the nature of the collection.

Advising on metadata issues

For some time, staff of Metadata and Digital Library Services have been advising campus groups on metadata issues.The Advertising Archive using Virage software is one example where MSDP has been serving as a metadata consultant. Other examples include projects with Wired Humanities and the Museum of Natural History. Any campus department or project or individual faculty member needing assistance in such endeavors is encouraged to contact the Head of Metadata and Digital Library Services for assistance.

Digital and Analog Imaging Services

The Image Services Center of MSDP provides high quality, fee-based reprographics services including scanning (negatives, prints, slides, transparencies, original documents), digital file to slide burning, high quality digital printing (up to 13x19), traditional darkroom printing, CD and DVD burning, 35mm and 16mm microfilming and and consultation on print production or digitization projects.

Image Services can also assist with copy-stand photography; consult on capture, use and storage of digital images; and provide limited photographic documentation of events in either film or digital formats.

For more information, contact Lesli Larson, Supervisor, Image Services Center.

The Future

Metadata and Digital Library Services is happy to explore new services for the University of Oregon community. We want always to be open to finding new approaches to meeting our users' needs. Our goal is to be seen as the place where anyone at the University of Oregon wanting to know about access comes for help and advice.

Maintained by: MSDP, msdpweb@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 01/10/2008