Finding Aids for Library Catalogs

Sponsored by East Carolina University, Digital Initiatives Division of the Joyner Library

Speaker: Diana Williams et al

Would you like to put your finding aids online and get records for them in your catalog? A Panel from ECU will address public service, archival, catalog, and system issues in this process. ECU, with the support of NC ECHO and the services of an outsourcing vendor, has converted finding aids for all of its manuscript collections (App. 1500 collections including processed and unprocessed collections) from typewriter paper to Encoded Archival Description (EAD) tagged web-based guides. This project, tagged MARC analog's in the finding aids in order to automate the creation of a MARC record for each collection. The Digital Library Federation has commended the project's detailed documentation and tools, available for other libraries to use.