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Cataloging & Metadata Center Organization
We are the main cataloging center in the UCLA Library system. We describe and provide access to more than 90,000 titles annually, including locally-digitized and curated materials, in various formats and languages, using various metadata schemas. In addition to providing access to tangible materials, we create metadata in support of UCLA’s Digital Library Program. Members of the Center advise and consult with members of the campus community and others on metadata and cataloging issues.
The special knowledge and skills possessed by catalogers and metadata specialists—things like knowledge of metadata schemas and structures, controlled vocabulary assignments, authority control, classification, tracking of relationships, and other aspects of granular metadata—are applied to cover as much of the information space of research interest to our users as possible.
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Data Integrity Team |
Is responsible for imposing consistency in name, series, and subject access points in bibliographic data for a wide range of Library resources; processing added copies, volumes, locations, and replacements, as well as withdrawals; physically preparing newly-cataloged materials for public use. |
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Discovery Team (1 FTE librarian and 2 FTE library assistants) |
Is responsible for addressing new areas of strategic priorities for the UCLA Library. This nimble and productive team provides description and metadata for hidden collections that are currently inaccessible to UCLA faculty, students, and other researchers. Each of these hidden collections poses complex preservation and access challenges. All offer a potential goldmine to students, faculty, and other researchers. None can be addressed properly within the confines of mainstream Cataloging & Metadata Center workflows. The Discovery Team makes materials and digital objects accessible in new and innovative ways. |
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ERM & Continuing Resources Team |
Is primarily responsible for creation and enhancement of CONSER records for continuing resources collected by client units; for creation and enhancement of related national authority records; and for related e-resources management (ERM) work. The team also assists in metadata creation for digital collections. CONSER records created by the team facilitate discovery of journals, newspapers, and other ongoing publications in the local library catalog and shared bibliographic database (OCLC). The team’s ERM work facilitates successful linking from library research tools such as online indexes to the resources themselves. |
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International Team (3.5 FTE librarians and 1.75 FTE library assistants) |
Is responsible for cataloging and digital metadata creation and enhancement specifically for certain unusually challenging materials in non-Latin scripts and languages from non-mainstream sources, which includes providing non-Latin script access to library resources locally and in the national utilities. The Team also provides shared expertise with the Print Acquisitions Unit and with selectors, curators, staff and faculty who have primary teaching, research and collecting responsibilities for the types of material described above. The Team also provides a service point for the stakeholders mentioned above. |
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Knowledge Management Team (0.5 FTE librarian and 2 FTE library assistants, plus members of Discovery Team and International Team) |
Is responsible for providing cataloging for monographs with copy that cannot be used as-is via cataloging-on-receipt in Print Acquisitions or be included in shelf-ready processing; original cataloging of materials requiring particular language expertise; and metadata for digital objects. The team is also responsible for distributing the monographic receipts from acquisitions within the Center. |
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Metadata Team (1 FTE librarian and 6 FTE library assistants) |
Is primarily responsible for the descriptive metadata that facilitates the discovery, identification, evaluation, and selection of the UCLA Library's online resources. The Team creates and enhances metadata records in a variety of schemas for a wide range of monographic resources: print books, e-books, photographs, sound recordings, etc. It also serves as a resource within the Library as well as for other UCLA units on metadata for online resources. |
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Subject Specialists Team (3 FTE librarians and 1 FTE library assistant) |
Is responsible for providing original cataloging for monographs and metadata for digital objects. Additionally, the Team upgrades vendor and other records that cannot be used as is via cataloging on receipt in Print Acquisitions or be included in shelf-ready processing |