My concerns
1] it takes the professional judgement out of collection management.
Just because"Hathi Trust and Google Books full-text", may have the
item listed is NOT sufficient reason to discard (what happens when
the digital format changes, or there when there is any other damage
to the electronic record - or even if the power just goes out <g>)
'Hathi Trust and Google Books full-text " ...virtual books may turn out to
be as vulnerable as the papyrus or parchment of the Library at Alexandria
We STILL need redundancy to ensure preserved documents somewhere
2 This seems it seems to be a neat system for routing books to
Better World Books who are NOT actually charity, despite their PR,
but a very profitable organization. Only a relatively percentage of their r
turnover gets routed to the donating libraries. Their might be better ways
of
recovering cash for discarded book assets than feeding BWB profits.
June S - wearing my old Librarian hat !
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Dooley,Jackie <dooleyj(a)oclc.org> wrote:
A new open-source gifts-management tool that sees of
potential
relevance to rare bookies.
Jackie Dooley
Program Officer
OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership
949.492.5060 (office/home)
949.295.1529 (mobile)
dooleyj(a)oclc.org
647 Camino de los Mares, Suite 108-240
San Clemente, CA 92673
From: gist-l-bounces(a)geneseo.edu [mailto:gist-l-bounces@geneseo.edu] On
Behalf Of Mark Sullivan
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 11:07 AM
To: Information Delivery Services Project; gist-l(a)geneseo.edu;
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Subject: [GIST-L] GIST Gift & Deselection Manager (GDM) Has Been
Released and is Available for Download
The GIST Team at the State University of New York (SUNY) Geneseo College
has released a free and innovative open-source tool called the GIST Gift
& Deselection Manager (GDM). It is designed to manage and streamline
library work-flow for processing gifts and evaluating materials for
weeding.
GDM will dramatically improve upon a time-consuming activity by:
* Automating the gathering of data for evaluating donations
including holdings, comparison of editions you hold, full-text, and
other data,
* Streamlining the work-flow; recommending "keep or do not keep"
according to your collection building conspectus file, and if you keep
an item, GDM can open and search the work in OCLC Connexion so you may
attach holdings and download a record;
* Automating donor letters with lists of donated items - no more
keying in title information for acknowledgments and the data is now be
stored in GDM's database;
* Evaluating data for weeding title by title or batch titles en
masse GDM automatically creates a spreadsheet for evaluating tens of
thousands of titles (we found that over 13% of our 31K items we
evaluated were available full text in the Hathi Trust); GDM also works
for evaluating journal titles across consortia.
How does GDM work?
GDM uses several APIs (application programming interface) to leverage
important data about items so you don't have to
manually look them up in various web browser searches. GDM does all the
searches when you wand in an ISBN or search by
title, and gathers the data you need to the streamline your work-flow
and make effective decision making.
What GDM data and information are important for gift and deselection
evaluation? GDM version 1 includes;
* Holdings information: your holdings (FRBRized), # of holding
libraries in your local, consortia, and/or state,
* Item information: your ILS item record to compare imprint,
Worldcat link to see more about the item, Hathi Trust and Google Books
full-text, Better World Books acceptance as library discard,
* Recommendation information: GDM automatically recommends "Keep"
or "Do Not Keep" based on a customizable subject conspectus - and
override or recommend review are options too.
* Custom data: import library enriched book lists to flag you
with notes if the item is an award-winner or on some core title lists,
Caldecott and Newbery awards are already loaded in the copy you
download.
The Getting It System Toolkit (GIST) projects focus on optimizing
work-flow by leveraging systems to do more work while reducing the staff
time necessary to make informed decisions and process materials.
GDM Version 1 has been released today, August 16, 2010.
For more information, documentation, and to download, please visit the
GIST Toolkit website:
http://gist.idsproject.org
<http://gettingitsystemtoolkit.wordpress.com/gift-deselection-manager/>
GIST Team
Tim Bowersox, Cyril Oberlander, Kate Pitcher, Mark Sullivan
____________________________________
Mark Sullivan
Systems Administrator for the College Libraries
1 College Circle
SUNY Geneseo
Geneseo, NY 14454
(585) 245-5698
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KALAMOS BOOKS
(For Books about Greece)
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com