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Update: Metadata Management Book

A couple of weeks ago I finished writing a book on the topic of eBook metadata management in academic libraries.  I am eagerly awaiting the complete acceptance of the first draft but, alas, I am still awaiting permissions from some of the rights holders of content which I would like to reuse in my book.  I am getting very eager about getting this book completely finished!  It's been quite the process.

Metadata Update #24 : Metadata as part of the user experience

Sometimes I find a blog post that puts into words the sorts of things that I have been trying to find a way to state for myself.  Erin Leach has written a blog post called "On metadata and user experience " which gets to the heart of many things that I have been thinking about lately: http://unifiedlibraryscene.blogspot.ca/2015/03/on-metadata-and-user-experience.html Sometimes in libraries we worry about what our discovery interfaces look like, the sorts of experiences our patrons have using them and whether the colours are attractive or not but forget about the metadata and the metadata quality which are often critical in determining whether or not patrons can find resources in the collection. I certainly have heard librarians, who work outside of cataloguing and metadata, say that they think that the new discovery layers can somehow magically "fix" problems with metadata.  There seems to be a belief that technology magically repairs records and