Outsourcing Experiences @
University of Nevada, Reno
NLA CONFERENCE
October 4, 2007
Carson City, Nevada
Vicki Toy Smith
University of Nevada, Reno
Vendor considerations
• Vendors are willing to work with customers to set
up profiles
• Profiles can be changed
• Best to consider options/desired outcomes during
initial stages of planning
• Shelf-ready programs beneficial
Outsourcing possibilities
• Bibliographic records can be purchased
• Shelf ready programs for collection
development
• Authority control can be outsourced through
vendors
• Recon and/or reclassification projects can be
outsourced
• Metadata/digitization outsourcing available
Need to examine departmental procedures
prior to outsourcing
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Look at departmental needs
Talk to other vendors offering same services
Examine cost and manpower
Balance quality and quantity
Investigate local network and workflow issues
Examine problem identification and resolution
following record loads
One outsourcing venue
• Yankee Book Peddler is the vendor for
UNR’s popular book collection
• YBP is the vendor for UNR’s Juvenile
collection (prize winning books)
• UNR has a shelf-ready profile set up with
YBP
• www.ybp.com/
Shelf ready outsourcing
• Blackwell provides UNR with a shelf-ready
collection development program
• Profiles are coordinated with BNA
representative and subject bibliographers
• Variety of disciplines covered in the shelf-ready
program
Enhancement of OPAC records
• Blackwell enhances OPAC records with
tables of contents
• BNA also enhances our records with
summary notes
• BNA’s enhancement service is used for
newly added print monographs
• www.blackwell.com/
Electronic resources
• MARC records are purchased for some electronic books and other
electronic resources
• Books 24 x 7--MARC records are loaded into the online catalog;
UNR provides file of deleted records to vendor: www.books24x7.com/
• CRC Press books: www.crcpress.com/
• NetLibrary books are purchased by UNR and bibliographic records are
obtained from OCLC: www.oclc.org/
• Rand publications: www.rand.org/
Electronic resources
• Some electronic resources are available for free
• Staff needs to check designated vendors
websites for new electronic resources to add to
online catalog
• California e-books: www.californiaebooks.com/
• Some California e-books not free
Serials Outsourcing
• A-Z list outsourcing available from various
vendors
• Serials Solutions provides A-Z lists; MARC
records for specific collections
• EBSCO also provides A-Z lists
• UNR creates its own A-Z lists; uses Serials
Solutions MARC records
• www.serialssolutions.com/
Authority Control Outsourcing
• Vendors such as MARCIVE provide authority control for
libraries
• MARCIVE does authority control on names and subjects
(LC and Mesh) for UNR
• UNR sends new bibliographic records on a monthly basis
to MARCIVE
• Vendor follows up with new authority records (sent
electronically to UNR)
• UNR has found it easy to update bibliographic records
through MARCIVE
• UNR handles its own series authority control
Cover images for OPAC
• UNR has switched to Amazon for cover
images in the online catalog
• No cost to purchase cover images with
Amazon
• Araby Greene changed WWW options in
INNOPAC to add cover images to UNR’s
online catalog
• www.amazon.com/
Recon project outsourcing
• UNR has used Backstage for a Dewey recon/reclass project and an LC
recon project
• UNR provided vendor with shelflist cards
• Backstage supplied MARC records
• Follow-up was a consideration on selecting
• www.bslw.com/
Digitization/metadata outsourcing
possibilities
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Digitization/metadata projects are a consideration for some libraries
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There is an technical services process to scan and OCR items for the
Basque Studies Department
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Lister Technologies provides content digitization and metadata
extraction; storage of digital content and metadata
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Lister Technologies has guaranteed 99.995% accuracy in digitization
• www.listertechnologies.com/
One final note – Thank you to UNR colleagues
• Lou Amestoy
• Betsy Dixon
• Araby Greene
• Linda Perry
• Livi Sullivan
• Paoshan Yue
Thank you!
Vicki Toy Smith,
Principal Cataloger
University of Nevada, Reno
vicki@unr.edu
www2.library.unr.edu/vicki/