OHIO VALLEY GROUP OF TECHNICAL SERVICES LIBRARIANS

OVGTSL 2007 ANNUAL CONFERENCE


From Lonely Country Road to Busy Super Highway ~ Value-Added Cataloging for Theses and Dissertations
Sylvia Turchyn, Indiana University

Abstract: While some university libraries provide no or limited bibliographic access to their locally-produced theses and dissertations, Indiana University Libraries at Bloomington has had good success with an evolving standard of description and access. This session will cover a brief history of IU’s theses/dissertation cataloging practices, recent enhancements to vendor-supplied bibliographic records, and linking to digitized full text. The next steps to deposit IU’s electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in IU ScholarWorks, the Libraries’ digital repository, will also be presented.