Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
The potential of e-booksThe electronic book (e-book) is still in its early stages of integration into academic libraries and because of this the implications for managing electronic collections are only just beginning to be explored
Whether e-resources are somehow distinct from printed collections and should be treated as such, or whether libraries should present a unified collection to their users, has been hotly debated since the arrival of e-journals, and will become an increasingly important issue as libraries’ e-resource collections continue to expand
At the University of Surrey (UniS) the decision was taken in 2005 to begin cataloguing the existing collection of e-books. This case-study will examine the challenges that are being faced at UniS as MAchine-Readable Catalog(u)ing (MARC) records begin to be imported and created for these resources
Summary
The electronic book (e-book) is still in its early stages of integration into academic libraries and because of this the implications for managing electronic collections are only just beginning to be explored. At the University of Surrey (UniS) the decision was taken in 2005 to begin cataloguing the existing collection of e-books This case-study will examine the challenges that are being faced at UniS as MAchine-Readable Catalog(u)ing (MARC) records begin to be imported and created for these resources. It will look at the unique cataloguing problems that the e-book format presents, and will explore the issues surrounding the relationship of electronic and printed books. It will consider the future for cataloguing procedures as e-resource collections become more and more important to libraries and end-users. For e-books, their organization within collections is further complicated by confusion over what an e-book represents: whether they are ‘hi-tech photocopies’ or a unique entity in themselves is a question that has implications for how the resource is catalogued as well as how it should be accessed
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