Projects in 2006
System Upgrade
Voyager upgrade to Voyager 5, May 2006
(Team project: coordinator Nancy) -- DONE
Physical Resources Cataloging
Monographs
Operational activities: cataloging and processing acquired and donated titles.
No data about special projects at the moment.
Serials
Operational activities: cataloging and processing acquired and donated titles.
No data about special projects at the moment.
Music and Media
Operational activities. Cataloging and processing score-monographs and score-serials.
Cataloging and processing sound and videorecordings.
Cataloging and processing monographs with accompanying materials.
M3 Series Clean-Up
Class M 3 of Library of Congress Classification includes complete editions of composers' works. Currently, there are 202 records classed in M 3 in a catalog. Many of them are large multi-volume series (complete and incomplete) that have been collected over decades. The project's goal is to check, evaluate, and update bibliographic and holdings records as needed.
(Team project: coordinator Susan)
Music and Media Copy Cataloging Manual Update
Music and Media Copy Cataloging Manual (2001) will be updated with new content, examples, and references reflecting changes in and additions to cataloging rules and practices, and the development of new media and electronic products.
(Team project: coordinator Susan)
Manuscripts and Special Collections
The Morgan Collection of Southwestern Pueblo Pottery
Original cataloging of the 111 Southwestern Pueblo Indian Pots donated to the Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology. Research project.
(Ind. project: Susan)
Historical NewsMaps
Original and complex copy cataloging of World War II NewsMaps, the publication reporting the progress of the war in a weekly fashion. It features large scale as well as small maps, texts, photographs, and posters. It’s prepared from public sources of information and distributed by Army Information Branch, Army Service Forces.
(Ind. project: Sai)
Electronic Resources Cataloging
NetLibrary ebooks
data will be added
WSU Materials and Publications
Master's Theses Digitization
Original cataloging of WSU Master's Theses and link records and full text. Pilot project with ProQuest.
(Team project. Coordinator.: Susan) Completed
Ph.D. Theses Digitization Project
Original cataloging and link to the CurrentResearches@WSU database WSU Ph.D. Theses. Ongoing project.
(Coordinator: Susan) Theses Spring-Summer 2006 are cataloged.
Faculty Publication Project
Original cataloging of WSU faculty articles, book chapters, reports, conference papers. The new initiative reflected more intense library service orientation and new trends focused on faculty and graduate students publications as institutional products. Special project.
(Individual project: Susan)
Faculty Authorities Project
Creation of local authority records to control names of faculty with no national authority records. Special project.
(Special project: Susan)
Cataloging Unit Website and Documentation
(Team project: Susan, coordinator; Sai, Web design; Sandipan Mandal, Rajesh Erasani, technical assistance)
Database Management, Quality Control, and Enhancements
Authority Control
Work with LTI reports and updates to be sure that Voyager authority personal, corporate, geographic names and subjects are up to date
(Team project. Coordinator: Nancy)
Donor's Acknowledgements Project
Record's enhancements with local note. Ongoing.
(Coordinator: Susan) Done for 2006
Thesis Adviser's Project
Record's enhancements with thesis adviser's data (a 500 note and a 700 12 added entry). Ongoing.
(Individual project: Susan)
Thesis Adviser's Retro Project
Record's enhancements with thesis adviser's data for previous years (2060 records).
(Responsible: Susan)
OPAC Redesign
Interactive Directions for Holding Locations in a Library OPAC
Examples of Dynamic Map Display in a Library OPAC
Digital Library Development
Institutional Repository. Faculty and Student Publications
Implementation phase. Policies development.
Library wide project. Chair: Kathy Downes; Coordinator: Susan
Institutional Repository. Pilot project.
Community: The Museum of Anthropology. Collection: The Southwest Pueblo Indian Pottery (digital images).
Pilot project. Responsibility: Susan. Completed
Community: The Hugo Wall School of Urban and Public Affairs. Collection: Annual reports.
Pilot project. Responsibility: Susan. Completed.
Community: Graduate School. Collection: GRASP.
Pilot project. Responsibility: Sai
Library wide project. Chair: Kathy Downes; Coordinator: Susan
