ER&L 2014

March 16–19, 2014

Austin, Texas

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Playing Nicely Together: The Ins and Outs of improving metadata for libraries, content providers and discovery services vendors

Monday, March 17, 2014 at 4:50 PM–5:35 PM CDT

Salon D/E

Conference Track

4. External Relationships

Keywords

metadata, discovery

Learning Objectives

Understand the importance of accurate and up-to-date metadata in discovering electronic resources,

Gain insight into the challenges and possible solutions of working with metadata from three perspectives: the librarian, the content provider, and the library ERM/discovery services vendor

Abstract

Greater collaboration between libraries, discovery services vendors, and content providers could increase the quality and value of metadata which would improve end users’ ability to discover content. Each corner of this triangle has its own challenges and our goal is to discuss possible solutions.

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