**ALCTS Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries
Discussion Group**

Cornell Round Robin Report, June 2007

**[Personnel]{.smallcaps}**

> Anne R. Kenney was appointed Interim University Librarian in February
> 2007. The search for a new University Library is underway under the
> auspices of the Provost. See the website for the position
> announcement, search committee and updates at
> <http://www.cornell.edu/provost/search-lib.cfm>.
>
> Karen Calhoun, Senior Associate University Librarian for Information
> Technology and Technical Services, left Cornell after 10 years of
> leadership to join OCLC Online Computer Library Center in the role of
> Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services, effective May 14,
> 2007.
>
> Scott Wicks was appointed Interim Assistant University Librarian for
> Technical Services.
>
> Oya Rieger was appointed Interim Assistant University Librarian for
> Digital Libraries and Information Technology.

**[Retrospective Conversion]{.smallcaps}**

> Cornell will cap off a thirty-two year effort to convert its card
> catalog to online records at the end of this month Since January 1975,
> we will have converted nearly 2 million cards, for the most part on
> funded project bases \-- see the summary at:
> <http://www.library.cornell.edu/recon/summary.htm> .
>
> In celebration, we plan to dismantle what remains of our card catalog
> later this summer to free up some much needed space for additional
> public computing workstations.

**[Large-Scale Digitization Initiative (LSDI)]{.smallcaps}**

> Cornell\'s collaboration with Microsoft and Kirtas Technologies to
> provide free Web access to thousands of books from Cornell\'s
> collections is currently on hold reflecting Microsoft\'s shift of
> focus to their publisher digitization program and to allow Kirtas time
> to expand their capacity. We plan to recommence the workflow in July.
> We are also planning to work with Kirtas to implement onsite
> digitization of some of Cornell\'s rare book collections by early
> fall. So far, Library Technical Services' role in this project has
> been chiefly advisory, except for a small amount of record cleanup and
> the automated creation of markers in the target BIB records to account
> for a title\'s digitization and to permit harvesting of metadata. For
> more on this project, see p. 5 of the Spring 2007 issue of *Cornell
> University Library Update*
> <http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/about/CULUpdate07.pdf>. An FAQ is
> available at: <http://wiki.library.cornell.edu/wiki/x/gng>

**[OCLC-RLG Activities]{.smallcaps}**

> Cornell continues to work on cleanup from its OCLC reclamation project
> begun in Winter 2006. We estimate that our holdings in OCLC (4.91
> million titles as of June 1st) are now nearly 99% accurate, with
> 60,000 rejected serial and microform records remaining to add to
> WorldCat. Proprietary catalog records not exported to OCLC number
> around 350,000. With help from OCLC, we recently completed a project
> to map OCLC system numbers into our local catalog records, a majority
> of which previously lacked these identifiers. Now that these numbers
> appear in our local records, we hope to begin later this year to
> export MARC holdings data for inclusion in WorldCat.

**[Library Data Repository]{.smallcaps}**

> David Banush, head of Cataloging Services, has been on leave from
> Library Technical Services since January.  He has been working with
> the Library\'s Research and Assessment Unit on an investigation of
> models for building a library-wide data repository.  Similar to the
> Penn Data Farm, the data mart, as we are calling it, would help
> administrators and managers make evidence-based decisions about all
> areas of library services.  The final report will be turned in to the
> Library Management Team at the end of June, after which time David
> will return to LTS.

**[ITSO CUL to WorldCat Selection Migration]{.smallcaps}**

> Last December, Cornell began using WorldCat Selection as a supplement
> to ITSO CUL to review new title information and batch transmit
> acquisitions and cataloging metadata into our Voyager system. In the
> past several months, new vendor streams have been added for French
> materials as well as newly cataloged content from LC. Plans are
> underway to add vendor coverage for the remainder of Europe, Canada,
> and China over the summer. In July, we anticipate retiring the ITSO
> CUL system.

**[Web Visioning]{.smallcaps}**

> A Web Vision Team has been charged to \"develop a compelling vision
> for how CUL should present itself and the information landscape to its
> users, highlighting the unique value that the Library brings to the
> Cornell community.\" Their report is due out in July.

**[*HeinOnline* World Trials Library]{.smallcaps}**

> The Cornell Law Library has entered into an agreement with HeinOnline
> to digitize portions of its collection of trials.  Approximately 100
> titles have been added so far, dating back to the 1700s.

For the full report, including the content for the **ALCTS CMDS Chief
Collection Development Officers of Large Research Libraries,** see:

<http://www.library.cornell.edu/janusconference/cul_ccdo_TSA_June07.pdf>