Welcome to OSUL Non-Roman Cataloging Blog! - “The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.” (Samuel Johnson) So, here we are: Find guidelines and instructions and stay tuned!
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We are currently conducting evaluation surveys on the effectiveness of the 5 e-learning movies we designed for basic cataloging training. We invite participants incuding (1) supervisors who used the e-learning courseware in training; (2) new student workers, practicums and other new staff under training who used the e-learning courseware.
Please click on the links to take the evaluation survey. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INPUT!
► FOR SUPERVISORS
Supervisor Review (1) — Before having your new employee use the e-learning courseware
Supervisor Review (2) — After having your employee used the e-learning courseware (forthcoming)
► FOR NEW EMPLOYEES
New Emplyee Review (forthcoming)
► FOR USERS OUTSIDE OSU
Evaluating ECBC
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Announcement
The Non-Roman Cataloging Section at the OSUL Cataloging Department now has a Del.icio.us account to gather bookmarks of useful online resouces and tools for non-Roman cataloging, which can be accessed from any computer workstation, as well as from your personal computer - any where and at any time!
http://del.icio.us/osul_nonroman_cat
More about this tool
- What? This is a new tool we created on “Del.icio.us.” Del.icio.us is one of the new trendy web tools in the category of “social bookmarking”. Have you ever felt troublesome to get back to a page you bookmarked on another computer? and your list of bookmarks or favorites is getting messier and messier with folders, sub-folders…? Del.icio.us promises to help on this, and with it you can
- Store your bookmarks online
- Access the same bookmarks from any computer
- Add bookmarks from anywhere
- Use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders
- Share your bookmarks with others, and watch whoelse is bookmarking the same thing you did!
- Who? - We made this tool public for everyone who is interested in non-Roman cataloging. Staffers here at the Non-Roman Cataloging Section is encouraged to use this tool and help building up the collection.
- How?
- Simply go the page if you just want to get to the list of bookmarks; Use tags to help navigate and find what you want;
- Login and you can start capture any web resources (webpages, databases, online dictionaries, blogs, etc.) using the Del.icio.us TAG installed;
- For consistancy, we’re developing a list of specific tags for non-Roman cataloging (forthcoming… stay tuned)
How to install the handy Del.icio.us TAG button?
On Del.icio.us homepage, click on “help” at the very upper right corner of the window,
under “Bookmarking” “install the tools for saving bookmarks”, choose one according to the browser your computer is using (mostly, “internet explorer buttons”)
then follow the install instructions
Click on here if you want to learn more about Del.icio.us.
GUIDELINES ON SELECTING, NAMING AND ORGANIZING BOOKMARKS
Criteria for selection
- The site bears informative, useful and/or instrumental content related to library cataloging in general and non-roman cataloging in particular.
- Content on the site can enhance cataloging activities and decision making, such as determination of author name form, date, subject headings, classification, publication information, etc.
- Examples of categories include:
- Databases
- Online dictionaries
- Converting tools such as the Chinese Romanization Converter by Mandarin Tools
- Blogs
- Online calendar
- Articles of instruction, guideline, or description of cataloging procedures
Name it meanfully and efficiently
- Give a meaningful name of the site you bookmark.
- Use the site’s own name if it is unique.
- Make it unique if is not already. For instance, not “Chinese-English Online Dictionary” but “Jinshan Chinese-English Online Dictionary”. Because there maybe more than one Chinese-English dictionaries on our list!
Tagging to organize
- use lower case. For examples, “databases” but not “Databases”; “databases-chinese” but not “databases-Chinese.”
- 1 word tag
- use plural form when you are tagging a bookmark that belongs to a category. For examples, tag it “blog” if it is one of the blogs we select.
- use single when you tag a site that is on or about the subject. For example, tag it “blog” if it is a site about the blog technology.
- compound tag
- Use hyphen “-” or underscore “_” to bond words.
- Put the generic word at the beginning of the string. For examples, “databases-japanese,” “history-korean.”
- Del.icio.us has a feature called “related tags” that can reduce the use of compound tag.
- Multiple tags for the same bookmark
- One bookmark can have more than one tags. For examples, a site functions both as a blog and a researching resource for the blog technology can be tagged “blogs” and “blog.”
- tag as many as you like, but be efficient!
April 23rd, 2008
Anna, our Slavic cataloger has made a successful move in providing Russian scripts in her original cataloging records. Thus, we the OSUL Cataloging Department Non-Roman Cataloging Section are now contributing Russian records with Russian scripts to the OCLC cooperative cataloging database, WorldCat, as well as to the libraries’ OPAC, OSCAR. This will better assist library users who are familiar with the language in finding what they are looking for, and improve access to our East European & Slavic Collection.
Our experiment with both OCLC Connexion and local OPAC Millennium system shows seamless display of Russian scripts on both staff and user interfaces. Users can also search our library catalog with Russian text (provided the computer has necessary fonts and IME* installed).
Here are two examples of OSU original record with Russian scripts:
The Ohio State University Libraries’ Cataloging Department has a long history in contributing Non-Roman bibliographic records to WorldCat with true vernacular scripts, including Arabic, Chinese, Hebraic, Japanese, and Korean. Recently, the Non-Roman Cataloging Section began to investigate on inputting Russian scripts in bibliographic records. We consulted other libraries who are doing this practice, experiemented with our OPAC system, and provided training to staff.
- We are mainly taking advantage of the Cyrillic MACRO developed by Joel Hahn; and if necessary, we use a virtual keyboard developed by the National Library of Russia, to input Russian texts by setting the Windows IME* into Russian. Our experiment has been successful.
- We welcome your comments and suggestions as we are still beginners in this practice. Please send your comments to Sherab Chen, Coordinator of Non-Roman Cataloging: xsherabchen@hotmail.com
Advancement of Unicode and computer facilaties such as the Windows IME* technologies, and the recent practice of OCLC Cooperative Cataloging all encourage the providing of true Non-Roman scripts in bibliographic record. As technical service librarians and catalogers, we strive for providing our users better access to bibliographic information. Making cataloging records with origianl languages and making library catalog searchable in the languages user-preferred are certainly one of the most important moves towards this end. We will continue to make endevour in this direction.
*The IME is a Microsoft product stands for Input Method Editor, and it’s pre-installed on all Windows computers version 2000 above.
February 27th, 2008
The entire Cataloging Department, with special guests, held a BIG lunch party on Tuesday, to celebrate the forthcoming Thanksgiving. The length of the dining table made a world record. At the faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar end of the table is Sarah and her Mom.
With some effort, you can still get to this end, though - and see the “crazy hair-ed” one!
I didn’t get pictures for the food and dessert tables which were close to each end of the table. But you can get a sense of what people devouring. What do you think?
November 14th, 2007
The transition from Summer to Fall Quarter also brough some change in our Non-Roman Cataloging Section.
WHO ARE LEAVING US?
Mesut, Zheng and Yanning are leaving us. Mesut has been a Graduate Administrative Associate (GAA) for Turkhis cataloging for two years. Zheng has been a GAA for Chinese cataloging since 2006. She is graduating from School of Education with a major in Educational Policy and Leadership. Yanning from Department of Geography was an hourly student assistant for special Chinese cataloging projects. Thank you and we’ve been happy working with you. We hope your working experiences in the library benefit your academic and career development. Goodbye and good luck to you. Our best wishes!
WHO ARE JOINING US?
At the same time, the section welcomes new student staffers:
Akina Ikudo (College of Engineering) joined in August as a student assistant for the JMSTC Japanese Microfiche Project.
Omer Acar (Ph.D. Education) joined us as a new GAA for Turkish cataloging (to fill Mesut’s position).
Mei (Rose) Zhao (M.A. Accounting) is joining us as a new Chinese GAA (to fill Zheng’s position), starting from this Fall Quarter.
Tsai Hsiao-feng (a Ph.D. student at Education), Qing Cao (M.A. Accounting), and Miao Liu (B.A. Information Technology) are joining the Chinese cataloging team.
~Welcome!~
August 25th, 2007
Sherab Chen, Coordinator of Non-Roman Cataloging of the OSUL Cataloging Department, presented a paper titled “Usability Assessment of E-learning Courseware for Basic Cataloging Training” (co-authored with Tingting Lu), on The 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Beijing, July 26, Thursday. He also chaired the panel of “Usability Cases Studies” consisted of seven speakers including himself.
For details please check out ECBC blog or look at the News and Events Archive under Pages.
August 25th, 2007
