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Harvesting Preservica metadata to your library discovery layer using APIs - Case Study: Preservica to Ex Libris' Primo

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They were discoverable in our library catalog Ex Libris Primo but would potentially be behind a paywall depending on who the viewer was. Challenges ProQuest supplied the theses in PDF format on hard drives in batches, each batch was accompanied by a file of metadata in MARC format. The final step was to surface it in Primo.

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Join us on a Presidential Libraries Road Trip!

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In celebration of Presidents Day, we are featuring a series of Citizen Archivist tagging and transcription missions using Catalog records from each Presidential Library: a Presidential Libraries Road Trip ! Every two weeks, we reach more than 160,000 registered users, researchers, and citizen archivists through our newsletter.

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Tips for Maximizing Your Sharepoint Investment

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Files are uploaded but do not have any corresponding metadata to make them searchable. After creating the site, you will want to create Document Libraries for each of the different types of files that will be stored in the site. Define a metadata taxonomy to properly classify and tag these files so they can be found when needed.

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The long game: how to get a library into the limelight

CILIP

The long game: how to get a library into the limelight. The long game: how to get a library into the limelight. s library, says Arwen Caddy, RB?s s one of a number of big shifts ushered in by the library?s Proof of this is a complete rethinking of the library?s Originally the library was an outsourced service,?

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Do I Need a Data Catalog?

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Organizations with particularly deep data stores might need a data catalog with advanced capabilities, such as automated metadata harvesting to speed up the data preparation process. Three Types of Metadata in a Data Catalog. The metadata provides information about the asset that makes it easier to locate, understand and evaluate.

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Recap of the 2022 Best Practice Exchange/CoSA (un)conference

Preservica

As a former archivist at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) will forever be on my radar. The (un)conference was hosted at the Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA) and this brand new, state of the art facility, created a wonderfully collaborative environment for the event.

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Apprenticeship Stories: Tom Saye

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Apprenticeship Stories: Tom Saye Tom Saye As we celebrate National Apprentice Week, Tom Saye, Library Assistant, East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust, shares his experience of how an apprenticeship opened the door to a new career. The more I looked into it, the more I came to realise that a job within a library would suit me.