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Our time savings has helped us do other parts of the workflow in more depth.”</p> <p><strong>Nancy Lin<br /> </strong>Metadata Technology Specialist, New York University Libraries</p> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="parsyscolumncontrol section"> <div class="parsys_column cq-colctrl-lt2-r"> <div class="parsys_column cq-colctrl-lt2-r-c0"> <div class="col0 parsys"><div class="text parbase section"> <p>Nancy Lin, Metadata Technology Specialist at <a href="http://library.nyu.edu/" title="New York University Libraries">New York University Libraries</a>, explained that the library has “over a million and a half e-books. It’s a very large collection, so the sheer volume requires that we are really efficient about how we handle the metadata and the discovery.” The e-resources are especially important to support campuses overseas. “We have global campuses in Abu Dhabi, Shanghai, and other international locations, so it’s important to have e-resources easily discoverable for all users,” she said.</p> <p>However, the library’s metadata staff found it difficult to keep up with frequently changing e-resource collections. The workflow for matching their Ovid collection, for example, took about 29 hours of staff time. Nancy explained that cataloging from vendor files was problematic in part because the records didn’t contain enough metadata. Also, the library received multiple records for the same title in different formats from different vendors, which staff had to manually deduplicate.</p> <p>NYU Libraries then began getting automated, institution-specific holdings feeds through <a href="https://www.oclc.org/en/worldshare-collection-manager.html" title="WorldShare Collection Manager">WorldShare Collection Manager</a>. “This has saved us a lot of time,” Nancy said, “and we see other benefits as well.” Nancy and her team use automated holdings feeds for their purchased Ebook Central, Elsevier, Ovid, and Springer collections as well as for evidence-based acquisition collections from JSTOR and Taylor & Francis through Ebook Central. Through these feeds, “We get records faster than having to go in all the time to different vendor sites for the records,” she explained.</p> </div> <div class="highlightbox section">  <div class="hbox quote"> <div class="highlightbox parsys"><div class="text parbase section"> <p>“The workflow for our Ovid collection now takes only about 2 hours, down from 29 hours, and our newly acquired content is automatically reflected in WorldShare Collection Manager and in the WorldCat knowledge base.”</p> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="text parbase section"> <p>Rather than loading vendor records with minimal data, OCLC provides the WorldCat record with subsequent updates through Collection Manager’s automated holdings feeds. “We’ve been able to quickly increase the number of our robust e-book records,” Nancy said. “Once we turned on these collections, we received better metadata for our catalog.” These feeds also combine information from different publishers into a single, complete record. “My colleagues are happy about not having to choose among many different collections that do not accurately reflect what we have purchased. To have one institution-specific set that’s coming through is a lot easier to manage,” she said. And even if NYU discovers a problem with an update, she added, “NYU can edit the WorldCat record and inform OCLC and the vendor about missing records. 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