ER&L 2016
April 3–6, 2016
Austin, Texas
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S12 - Building a Finding Aid Database at UNR Libraries, Building a Successful Collaboration
Conference Track
3. Organizational Strategies
Learning Objectives
Leverage available staff and student labor in an academic library to build new tools for patrons.
Achieve successful interdepartmental collaboration projects.
Build a searchable, indexed EAD finding aid database in a low-staffing environment.
Abstract
From 2013 to 2015 the Metadata and Cataloging Dept. of UNR Libraries led a successful effort across four departments to build a searchable database for special collections finding aids. Find out how this collaborative project was conceived and managed to make thousands of collections newly searchable and discoverable by patrons.
