Browsing by Author "Finn, Mary"

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  • Batch Editing, Loading, and Authority Control
    Finn, Mary; Doyle, Jana; Reece, Terry (Innovative Users Group Conference 2011, 2007)
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    Batch-Load Authority Control Cleanup Using MarcEdit and LTI
    Finn, Mary (Routledge, 2009-01)
    Vendor sets of bibliographic records are readily available and must be loaded into our catalogs to provide patron access to the items used most. However, batch-load authority control can be an arduous process because bibliographic standards vary between sets. Librarians at Virginia Tech have implemented a process that includes authority control cleanup before batched bibliographic records are loaded into the catalog. This article describes the process used.
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    ETD-MARC/Perl Module Design
    Liao, Yan (Clara); Finn, Mary (Virginia Library Association Meeting 2005, 2005-10-20)
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    The Future of MARC: R.I.P. or Let her Rip?
    Finn, Mary (Virginia Libraries, 2004-01)
    The 39th Annual Potomac Technical Processing Librarians Meeting—"The Future of MARC: R.I.P. or Let Her Rip?"—took place in Washington D.C. on October 31, 2003, with speakers Roy Tennant and Rebecca Guenther. Tennant manages eScholarship Web & Services Design for the California Digital Library of the University of California, while Guenther serves as Senior Networking and Standards Specialist for the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress. Tennant's articles "MARC Must Die" and "MARC Exit Strategies," which appeared in Library Journal in late 2002, led to a national discussion of metadata issues. Guenther countered with a letter to the editor, "MARC: Not Dead Yet," published in LJ in January 2003.
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    Information-seeking Behavior of International Graduate Students vs. American Graduate Students: A User Study at Virginia Tech 2005
    Liao, Yan; Finn, Mary; Lu, Jun (ACRL Publications, 2007-01)
    This is a comparative study on information needs and information-seeking behavior of international graduate students and American graduate students. This user study is based on empirical data collected from an online survey conducted between April 7 and May 28, 2005, at Virginia Tech. The goal of this comparative study is to investigate how graduate students from diverse ethnic groups discover, select, and use various information sources and to obtain insights into international graduate students' information-seeking behavior, especially its similarities and differences compared with the information-locating patterns used by their American peers.
  • International Students vs. American Graduate Students: a user study at Virginia Tech 2005
    Liao, Clara; Finn, Mary; Jun, Lu (Association of Research Libraries, 2006-09)
    This user study is based on empirical data collected from an online survey conducted between April 7 and May 28, 2005 at Virginia Tech. The goal of this comparative study is to investigate how graduate students from diverse ethnic groups discover, select, and use various information sources, and to obtain insights into international graduate students’ information seeking behavior, especially its similarities and differences compared with the information locating patterns used by their American peers. A literature review revealed a ten year gap in similar studies of information seeking behavior of international graduate students. Comparison studies of the differences between American and international graduate students had not previously been done.
  • VTechWorks Metadata Guidelines, Version 1.2, 10/18/2016
    Lohrey, Melissa; Doyle, Jana; Finn, Mary; Lawrence, Anne S. (Virginia Tech, 2016-02-02)
    This document, which can be downloaded as a CSV file, describes the administrative, technical, and descriptive metadata encoding guidelines for VTechWorks resources. VTechWorks uses the Dublin Core and NDLTD metadata standards to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, and use of VTechWorks resources. VTechWorks has also developed custom metadata fields, as well as leveraged encoding guidelines from the Texas Digital Library and the MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema) standards, to improve the description and findability of VTechWorks resources. These guidelines are updated regularly; for questions or comments, please contact vtechworks@vt.edu.