By Timothy Ryan Mendenhall and Matthew Haugen Background on Digital Scriptorium The Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a consortial database of pre-modern manuscripts held in American libraries. Started in 1997, Digital Scriptorium was originally a joint project of the Bancroft Library at University of California Berkeley and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library here at Columbia […]
Technical Reports in the Repository: Syncing a unique grey literature collection in multiple Columbia University Library systems
By Amanda S Bielskas, Director of Science, Engineering and Social Science Libraries ; Emily Holmes, Director, Preservation ; Esther M. Jackson, Scholarly Communication Technologies Librarian ; Melanie Wacker, Metadata Coordinator ; and Jeremiah Mercurio, Head, Humanities & History / Interim Director of Digital Scholarship Columbia University Libraries has a robust digitization program that aims to […]
Acquisitions: It’s Not Just Opening Boxes!
Lauren DeVoe, Order & Continuing Resources Librarian Matthew Pavlick, Head, Collections Acquisitions Services Background Before it was known as Collections Acquisitions Services (CAS), Monographs Acquisitions Services (MAS) was a stand alone department residing in room 106 Butler. MAS was primarily responsible for processing firm orders of monographs, music scores, DVDs, graphic novels, and microfilms in […]
PCC Wikidata Pilot: Expanding Authority Control to Identity Management
By Mollie Echeverria, Melanie Wacker, Alex Whelan Authority control One of the core functions of library cataloging is ensuring that all resources by or about the same agent can be found under the same access point or heading. This process is referred to as authority control. Authority control is commonly managed through the use of […]
Welcome to “Technically Speaking”
The Technical Services Librarians (TSL) Committee began this blog in spring 2021 to help highlight the often unseen work of purchasing resources, cataloging them, and preparing them for patron access. If you’d like to write a post, please send us your ideas; use the same form to send us ideas for programming. Since even many […]