Discovery, Reference, and Collections

MOUG Reference, Discovery, and Collection Coordinator

Monica Figueroa (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, monica@unc.edu)

The Reference, Discovery, and Collection Coordinator coordinates activities with regard to public and collection service issues related to OCLC products and services. The RDC Coordinator also chairs the Reference, Discovery, and Collection Committee whose members assist with RDC work.

Participation and suggestions for issues, products, or services to investigate are welcomed from members with an interest in public or collection services. Participation is welcome and encouraged from those with all backgrounds including public, reference, instruction, collections, technical, or administrative services.

MOUG Enhancement Proposals

WorldCat Discovery

• WorldCat Discovery 245$c Display Label (August 15, 2018) (pdf)
• WorldCat Discovery Display Preferences for Medium of Performance (382) subfields $e $r $t (March 29, 2017) (PDF)
  • Medium of Performance (382) subfields $e $r $t Survey Questions (March 29, 2017) (Word Document)

• WorldCat Discovery Display Preferences for Medium of Performance (April 23, 2015) (PDF)
  • Medium of Performance Survey Questions (July 10, 2015) (Word Document)
• OCLC Search and Discovery Taskforce Report (July 5, 2016) (PDF)
  • OCLC SDTF Cover letter (July 11, 2016) (PDF)
  • Recommendations posted to OCLC Community Center (June 28, 2017)
  • August 2017 update (priorities, $k in name headings) (PDF)

WorldCat Local

• WorldCat Local Enhancement Recommendations for Music (September 2012) (PDF)
  Final recommendations for WorldCat Local/WorldCat.org interfaces. Background, recommendations, examples, and responses from OCLC’s WorldCat Local Product Team. Also appears in MOUG Newsletter 111 (Sept. 2012).
• Music Recommendations for WorldCat Local Status Report (March 14, 2012) (PDF)
• Music Recommendations for WorldCat Local Status Report (January 21, 2011) (PDF)
• WorldCat Local Enhancement Recommendations for Music (draft, April 2010)(PDF)

FirstSearch

• 2006 WorldCat Enhancement Document
• RILM on New FirstSearch (draft, July 2003, rev. January 2004)

OCLC Discovery, Collections, and Reference Products and Services

Products and Services Information and Communication

• OCLC Products & Services (full list)
• OCLC Webinars
• OCLC Community Center (requires login information from home institution)
• OCLC Research

Discovery (WorldCat)

• WorldCat information
• WorldCat Index Searching (FirstSearch, WorldCat Discovery, WorldShare, CatExpress, Connexion client and browser)
• “Research and Discovery Blog” (University of Delaware Libraries)
• Dougan, K., “A Rose by Any Other Name…A Basic WorldCat Lexicon for 2016,” (PPT) (Presentation slides (PPT) from the MOUG 2016 annual meeting)

FirstSearch

• FirstSearch information
• FirstSearch product support

WorldCat Discovery Services

• WorldCat Discovery information
• WorldCat Discovery product support
• Belford, R., “Approaching WorldCat Discovery: Early Responses from the Music Library Community,” (PPT) (presentation slides from the MOUG 2016 annual meeting)
• Duffy, M. J., “WorldCat Discovery: Updates from the MLA/MOUG OCLC Search and Discovery Task Force” (PPT) (Presentation slides (PPT) and notes (PDF) from the MLA 2016 annual meeting)
• Scott, D. “OCLC’S WorldCat Compared: Reflections on FirstSearch vs. Discovery as a Collection Development Tool” (Presentation slides (PDF) and notes (PDF) from the MLA 2016 annual meeting)

WorldCat.org
Freely available global catalog

• WorldCat.org catalog
• WorldCat.org product support

WorldCat Local

• WorldCat Local information

Collections Management

WorldShare Management Services
Cloud-based ILS: acquisitions, circulation, metadata, resource sharing, discovery, reports

• WorldShare Management Services information
• Procell, J., & Ertz, M. WorldShare Management Services from a Music Librarian’s Perspective (PPT) (presentation slides from the MLA 2016 annual meeting)
• Holloway, J. MLA-MOUG Joint OCLC WMS System Interest Group (presentation slides from MLA 2019 annual meeting)

WorldCat Selection
Partnership with vendors, for selection and acquisitions

• WorldCat Selection product support
• Boettcher, B. “After WorldCat Selection” (PDF) (presentation slides from the MLA 2016 annual meeting)

CONTENTdm
Digital collection management

• CONTENTdm information
• CONTENTdm product support

Reference

• QuestionPoint (virtual reference)

Other Reference, Collections and Discovery Resources

Music Discovery Requirements
This collection of resources from the Music Library Association discusses issues related to the discovery of music materials in library search systems, with concrete recommendations for discovery interfaces.

Getting More out of MARC with Primo: Strategies for Display, Search and Faceting (McGrath & Lowery, 2018) Primo implementation of display, faceting, and searching including for relator terms/codes and for Medium of Performance with reference to MOUG’s WorldCat Discovery Display Preferences for Medium of Performance

VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)

• OCLC VIAF information
• VIAF