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Data & Analytics

"Nab an undergrad": metadata and
student satisfaction
Dr Amy Staniforth
Resource Discovery team leader
Information Services

Treachery of the Blue Books or Treason of the
Blue Books (Brad y Llyfrau Gleision)
• Reports of the commissioners of enquiry into the state
of education in Wales published in 1847
• “concluded that the Welsh were ignorant, lazy and
immoral, and that among the causes of this were the
use of the Welsh language and nonconformity….”
• “…instrumental in the birth of the modern Welsh self-
government movement”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treachery_of_the_Blue_Books

Search: “Great Britain. Commissioners of
inquiry on the state of education in Wales”

Rebirth of a nation : a history of
modern Wales
(1969) Reports of the
Commissioners on the
State of Education in
Wales
(1847) Reports of the
Commissioners on the
State of Education in
Wales
The language of the
blue books
History of
Education in
Wales
Education and
female
emancipation:
the Welsh
experience
Welsh society
and nationhood
Mid-Victorian Wales :
the observers and the
observed
Welsh Journal of
Education
Y Cymmrodor
Welsh History
Review
Planet
Perspectives on a
century of
secondary
education in
Wales : 1889-
1989
Politics and
society in Wales,
1840-1922
Bulletin of
the Board of
Celtic
Studies.
Aberystwyth
Studies
A people and a
proletariat:
essays in the
history of Wales,
1780-1980
Communities : essays in the
social history of Victorian
Wales
Crisis of economy and
ideology : essays on
Welsh society, 1840-
1980
Statistical evidence relating to
the Welsh language 1801-
1911

But what next?
• More one-to-ones?
• Scaled up approaches?
Attempted:
• Reported to Academic Engagement
team for referrals
• Sourced ‘dissertation topic’
documentation

My questions for you:
• How would you pursue this project?
• What sort of performance indicators
could be used to measure its success?

“Thank you for the work you have done in
making these books more accessible through
Primo…For example, I wasn't aware the library
had physical copies of the Blue books report and
statistical evidence relating to the Welsh
Language during the time period I'm studying.”
Tom
Thank you!
mws@aber.ac.uk

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The Wessex Classification Scheme was created by healthcare librarians in the South West of England, and was loosely based on the US National Library of Medicine classification. The scheme is widely used in healthcare libraries across the UK, both inside and outside the NHS. Although the scheme has gone through several revisions, there has been no major update since 2015, so the Wessex Classification Scheme Oversight Group was formed in September 2022 with the support of NHS England. The group aims to bring knowledge and skills from UK health library networks to improve the scheme and offers a chance for participants to develop skills in working with classification and subject indexing, and the opportunity to network widely. By forming a working group, it ensures the longevity of the scheme and shares the maintenance work more widely. Initially, members were asked which parts of the scheme they felt needed updating the most and sub-groups were formed for LGBTQ+ issues and gender identity (the Pride sub-group), Ethnicity and Race, and Learning Disability and Neurodiversity (the LDN sub-group) as well as a smaller team working on ‘quick and simple’ updates.... Poster presented at the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) Conference & UKCoR RDA Day (6th - 8th Sept 2023 at IET Austin Court, Birmingham).

Revamping in-house cataloguing training / Victoria Parkinson (King's College ...

With hybrid working and a new LMS, we are revamping our in-house cataloguing training. We are learning from our teaching librarians and using the tools we have, such as Moodle, to create cataloguing training that allows anyone with an interest to learn the basics and making the best use of face-to-face time for putting those skills into practice. Over the past eight years we’ve adapted and updated our in-house training, and I’ll also talk about how we decide what to teach colleagues, and how we try to make the best use of staff time to keep skills up when cataloguing is one of many competing priorities and shared across several teams. Between staff turnover and COVID lockdowns and service changes, we are starting almost from scratch in building a pool of staff who can catalogue the material our suppliers can’t provide records for, which is an excellent time to take stock of what our cataloguing needs are, and advocate for the importance of creating and upgrading good quality records and why we need to build these skills in-house. Lightning Talk presented at the Metadata & Discovery Group Conference & RDA Day (6th - 8th Sept 2023 at IET Austin Court, Birmingham)

UK NACO funnel : progress, obstacles, and solutions / Martin Kelleher (Univer...

This Lightning Talk will provide a quick update on latest progress with the now established UK NACO Funnel, which allows participating institutions to contribute to Library of Congress / PCC authority control. The presentation will include a summary of the purpose of the funnel, details of latest expansion, problems and solutions with data submission software, and further plans and collaborations. Lightning Talk presented at the Metadata & Discovery Group Conference & RDA Day (6th - 8th Sept 2023 at IET Austin Court, Birmingham)

Ship[w]right[e]s? : the challenges of cataloguing reports from scientific exp...

This document discusses the challenges of cataloguing reports from scientific expeditions, using the Challenger Reports as an example. It notes that there were 83 Challenger Reports published by 47 authors, held across 4 sites in 50 different sectional libraries, with 220 bib records created for this work. It also mentions the opportunity for the Natural History Museum to think about metadata across the entire museum collection as part of an effort to move specimens to a new location.

BFI Reuben Library : an RDA implementation story / Anastasia Kerameos (BFI Re...

“From 1st January 2024, Adlib will no longer be supported or maintained by Axiell.” This statement acted as the catalyst for action, enabling the release of resources to implement significant changes to the BFI Reuben Library’s record structure, which in turn prompted a deeper look into our current cataloguing practices and future requirements. Upgrading to Axiell Collections will allow the library to implement new RDA more fully – we had previously adopted some aspects but not all – and, importantly, it will allow us to better align our data structure with that of the organisation’s other collections, making it easier to manage and making it compatible with further planned system developments. By the time of the conference in September we will be cataloguing to an under the bonnet Work – Expression – Manifestation – Item (WEMI) record hierarchy and new cataloguing guidelines. Having watched all the webinars available, having read every piece of documentation which seemed relevant, having spent hours reading and re-reading the contents of the RDA Toolkit we are currently working on the last stages of our application profile whilst still debating issues around putting the theory into practice, especially in the area of aggregates and diachronic works. I do not suggest I have all the answers, far from it, but by sharing the story of our journey, that of a medium sized non-academic library of specialist mostly print collections and illustrating it with practical examples I hope my presentation will be of use to others currently travelling a similar path. Paper presented at the Metadata & Discovery Group Conference & RDA Day (6th - 8th Sept 2023 at IET Austin Court, Birmingham)

RDA implementation at the British Library / Thurstan Young (British Library)

On 23rd May 2023, the RDA Board announced that the original RDA Toolkit will be removed in May 2027. All RDA users will need to be prepared for transition to the official RDA Toolkit before then. As previously announced, a Countdown Clock will start running in May 2026, a year before the sunset date. This paper will provide an update on the British Library’s plans for implementation of the new RDA Toolkit, following completion of the RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign (3R) project. It will provide an overview of the timeline and scope for implementation as well as describing the training and documentation underpinning the implementation and the support available to other institutions for their implementation. Paper presented at the Metadata & Discovery Group Conference & RDA Day (6th - 8th Sept 2023 at IET Austin Court, Birmingham)

Community forward : developing descriptive cataloguing of rare materials (RDA...

Since 2013, Resource Description and Access (RDA) has been the chief cataloguing standard used in the United States. In 2019, the RDA Steering Committee previewed a new version of the RDA Toolkit, which introduced substantial changes, such as replacing instructions with a series of options, adding new concepts such as “nomens” and “diachronic works,” and replacing the prior organisation with a broader intellectual framework. This revised Toolkit became the official RDA Toolkit in December 2020, with major cataloguing bodies planning to adopt it in the coming years. Some cataloguers have expressed concerns regarding the official RDA Toolkit, particularly around cost and training required to learn the new standard. In response to these concerns, the RBMS RDA Editorial Group, a group of volunteers from the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, developed a new manual, Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (RDA Edition). DCRMR is informed by core principles of community and sustainability while employing open-access publication models and infrastructure. Designed in response to community feedback, it presents instructions in cataloguing workflow order using clear language while remaining aligned to the official RDA Toolkit and RDA element sets. The manual was approved in February 2022 in its first iteration and continues to be actively developed and updated. This presentation will discuss why the editorial group created an open and free manual; the process and tools for creating the manual, including the use of GitHub to publish a cataloguing standard; and outcomes to date. Paper presented at the Metadata & Discovery Group Conference & RDA Day (6th - 8th Sept 2023 at IET Austin Court, Birmingham)

The West Midlands Evidence Repository (WMER) : a regional collaboration proje...

The West Midlands Evidence Repository (WMER) was born from a pre-pandemic recognition by managers of Knowledge and Library Services (KLSs) of 8 NHS Trusts in the West Midlands region of the need for a repository. This was to replace existing provision, or recognition of national priorities or local needs to record, collect, and share research, as well as potential for sharing patient information leaflets or guidelines. Some managers and services had previous experience of repositories, as well as being part of a national pilot. WMER, however, represented a new start for all to work in collaboration to establish a new service. The consortium would enable sharing of both costs and experience. Initially, different repository suppliers were investigated by the KLS that had had a long-established repository, taking on board the experience of the group from the national pilot. The Atmire Open Repository platform was chosen as it met the consortium’s needs and had a proven track record of other collaborative repositories in the NHS. Financing was taken on by one Trust and the on-boarding was led in partnership between that Trust and the Trust that had undertaken the initial investigation. With the initial on-boarding completed and the test server set-up, the group took a step back to ensure they worked together as a collaborative going forward. Collaborative work between the KLSs was facilitated by the formal creation of two groups, a Managers Group for overall approval and financial decision making and an Operational Group handling the setup and administration of the repository for the consortium. The Operational Group is led by the service with most experience of managing repositories and the lead of it acts as liaison between the two groups, with each group having representation from the eight organisations. Learning from other regional collaborations the Future NHS site was used as a collaborative workspace and Teams as the main means of communication. The setup of the repository was completed on time after three months. There was initially a steep learning curve for all, especially the Operational Group who undertook this process. The group identified key metadata and metadata standards for the repository, including the use of ORCIDs and the use of Wessex Classification as a controlled vocabulary. The setup process was facilitated by the collaborative nature of the project as the variety of experience in the group was a great benefit. It should be noted support from the suppliers was specifically related to technical support only. The collaborative nature of the project also allowed work to be shared, and tasks were given to members to be undertaken independently. However, a downside of collaborative projects is that decisions can take longer to be inclusive... Paper presented at the Metadata & Discovery Group Conference & RDA Day (6th - 8th Sept 2023 at IET Austin Court, Birmingham)

Authority of assertion in repository contributions to the PID graph / George ...