S12 - Building a Finding Aid Database at UNR Libraries, Building a Successful Collaboration

Monday, April 4, 2016 at 10:45 AM–11:30 AM CDT
Room 103
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. 

Presenters

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Dana M Miller, UNR Libraries
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Steven Harris , University of Nevada Reno
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Jeremy J Floyd, UNR Libraries
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