Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Library Catalogues as Data

Research, Practice and Usage

Av Paul Gooding, Melissa Terras, Sarah Ames

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Through the web of library catalogues, library management systems and myriad digital resources, libraries have become repositories not only for physical and digital information resources but also for enormous amounts of data about the interactions between these resources and their users. Bringing together leading practitioners and academic voices, this book considers library catalogue data as a vital research resource.Divided into four sections, each approaches library catalogues, collections and records from a different angle, from exploring methods for examining such data; to the politics of catalogues and library data; their interdisciplinary potential; and practical uses and applications of catalogues as data. Other topics the volume discusses include:Practical routes to preparing library catalogue data for researchersThe ethics of library metadata privacy and reuseData-driven decision makingData quality and collections biasPreserving, resurrecting and restoring dataThe uses and potential of historical library dataThe intersection of catalogue data, AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)This comprehensive book will be an essential read for practitioners in the GLAM sector, particularly those dealing with collections and catalogue data, and LIS academics and students.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2025-06-26
Mått: 159 x 238 x 18 mm
Vikt: 19 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 272
Förlag: Facet Publishing
ISBN: 9781783306596

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Paul Gooding is Professor of Library Studies and Digital Scholarship at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on the relationship between digital library collections, communities of usage and practice and legal/institutional frameworks for collection development. He has a particular interest in the implications of emerging digital technologies on research and library practices.Prof. Melissa Terras is the Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, leading digital aspects of CAHSS research as Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society, and is Director of Research in the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Gooding and Terras have collaborated on a previous edited volume, entitled Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future.Dr. Sarah Ames is Digital Scholarship Librarian at the National Library of Scotland, with responsibility for Digital Research, including the Library’s open data platform, Data Foundry. She has collaborated on a wide range of research initiatives bringing together digital tools and methods to explore the national collections.

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Library Catalogues as Data is a major contribution to the emerging field of large-scale bibliographical research and to digital humanities more broadly. It provides a compendium of methodological and analytical approaches, together with a clear grasp of their limitations and challenges, which will no doubt be mined and further developed as the discipline continues to mature.

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