... the paper-based system; furthermore, archivists are not fully trained on digital management. The paper recommends universities to develop preservation strategies to migrate records from the paper-based system to electronic records management system. Research limitations/implications The population...

... – This process enables libraries, especially those without third-party authority control service, to handle the phased reissuance of LCNAF and related BFM in an automatic fashion with minimal human intervention. Records management Authority control Automation Catalogue maintenance LC name authority file...

... management Records management Libraries Museums Presidential libraries have been in the news lately. Mourners of Gerald R. Ford visited his presidential library in Ann Arbor, Michigan to sign a guest book honoring this former president and lined up outside his museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan to walk...

... the profession with a very different attitude toward archives allied professions including history, library science, information, and records management. This brings us to a discussion of convergence in the information professions. In the past several decades archival education has worked to differentiate...

... can be fully addressed without renewed and active cooperation among the various information professionals. Archivists need to strengthen their ties with librarians, historians, records managers, museum professionals, government records keepers, information technology experts, and many other allied...

... --> Cataloguing Bibliographic standards Records management Libraries The authors’ goal is to provide an overview of the MARC standard aimed primarily at library staff other than cataloguers. This rather unusual approach goes against the general opinion in the profession – the one that only cataloguing...

.... The bulk of modern manuscripts and archives makes item‐level appraisal impractical. Decisions normally must be made at the series or sub‐series level. For institutional archives, records management provides the essential basis for controlling voluminous records. Archival appraisal adds a historical...

... into electronic form and conversion into EAD for a single price. The decision led some participants to adjust priorities in selecting finding aids for conversion, opting not for the most recent ones, but for the oldest and least amenable to OCR. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Archives Records management...

... types of intellectual access (Pugh, 1992): © MCB UP Limited 2003 Archives Access control Records management The purpose of selecting, acquiring, and preserving manuscripts and archives is to make them available for use. Intellectual and physical accessibility are vital components...

... differences in information‐seeking. Whereas bibliographic control generally relates to known items and works, use of archives and manuscripts usually is more inferential (Smiraglia, 1990). © MCB UP Limited 2002 Archives Records management Data retrieval Database management Data security...

... to identify and locate useful sources. This process will be the topic for our next column. References Bellardo , L.J. and Bellardo , L.L. (1992), A Glossary for Archivists, Manuscript Curators, and Records Managers , Society of American Archivists , Chicago, IL . Boles , F...

... an identical value, in order to identify the name of the database in which an e‐journal was covered. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Libraries User studies Internet Records management Dowling College is a small liberal arts college with about 6,000 students located on the banks of the Connetquot...

... , L.L. (1992), A Glossary for Archivists, Manuscript Curators, and Records Managers , Society of American Archivists , Chicago, IL. Daniels , M.F. and Walch , T. (1984), A Modern Archives Reader , National Archives and Records Service , Washington, DC. Hofman , H...

... combining structured course sequences with practical experience and sophisticated research projects. The Society of American Archivists is currently considering new “Guidelines for a graduate program in archival studies”. This case study of the graduate program in archives and records management at Western...

... elements arranged and presented in a given order. Thus, card catalog formats and MARC formats represent different but related bibliographic structures, the former intended for display and the latter for communication. Bibliographies Cataloguing Online retrieval Records management Standards...

..., as will that of those who follow suit. In recent discussions, I′ve heard of catalogers of the future being concerned mostly with record management. We′ll be the ones who manage the catalog, with an emphasis on importing records, exporting them for authority control or enhancement, manipulating them within an OPAC...

... a means of retrieving authority records, stockpiled as a result of backlogging, into a local system in a timely fashion. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Cataloguing Computer networks Database management Information systems IT Libraries Online retrieval Records management 24 Vol. 9 / Number 4...