[DCRM-L] FW: RBMS Web Team expertise requested

[Schneider, Nina]

Colleagues,

Linda Isaac (University of Miami) and Ann Myers (Stanford University) have kindly volunteered to take on a new project to assist the rare materials cataloging community. The Bibliographic Standards Committee (BSC) of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) would appreciate your feedback.

From Linda Isaac:

"It came to BSC’s attention at the last meeting at ALA in Orlando that a number of institutions are looking for rare materials cataloging help but have no information as to who to contact for various format specific questions.  Thus, BSC is looking at options to compile a list of “experts” and making the list available as part of Cataloging Aids on RBMS website.  Ideally, the list should contain each person’s contact information as well as his/her area of expertise (format, language, subject, time period, etc.).

In order to compile this type of information, we would first need an online form/questionnaire for the experts from various communities to fill out. However, it appears that there is no automatic way to extract and compile a list by area of expertise and geographic location from the submitted forms. The RBMS Web Team has kindly offered to help and came up with three options:

1.      Set up a Google form and spreadsheet to collect and display the information. This would give the capability to collect detailed information while filtering and sorting the results.  However, one drawback might be that it would not be on the official RBMS site. [BSC web page could probably provide a link to the Google form.]
2.      Set up a wiki through a service like PBworks.  There would not be an option to use a form in this case, but this would allow multiple people to collaborate and create sections by subject matter or geographic location.
3.      Use the web form plugin currently being using on the RBMS site to collect submissions in the database (similar to SCF), and email them to the project coordinator.  This would not allow for the submissions to be published automatically, but they could be gathered and then published at a later date by the project coordinator.

We would appreciate hearing from you as to which option you think would result in higher rate of participation and response from various communities."

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Nina M. Schneider
Chair, RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee

Rare Books Librarian
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles, CA  90018
(323) 731-8529

nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/


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