Revisiting Oral History Cataloging Policies for Multi-Format Discovery in MARC: A Case Study

Abstract

ABSTRACT The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives has a collection of over three thousand oral history interviews. Previous cataloging procedures provided limited discoverability to these interviews that prioritized access to physical transcripts. New workflows established for the management and description of archival collections provided the opportunity to revisit cataloging practices for oral history interviews. This article discusses local considerations, challenges, and workflows involved in access and discoverability of individual oral history interviews in a variety of physical formats, using exported metadata from ArchivesSpace to create the basis of an original MARC record in OCLC’s WorldCat.