Eustis, Jennifer

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Metadata Librarian

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Eustis

First Name

Jennifer

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Library and Information Science

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Metadata Librarian in the Information Resources Management department.

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Collaborations, Consortia, Conundrums
(2021) Eustis, Jennifer M.
Collaborating across departments can be both fruitful and challenging. Collaboration across institutions in a consortium can be even more worthwhile and presents more hurdles to cross. Collaboration across institutions in multiple countries on an open source project is definitely rewarding and has a number of demands. What happens when you have to navigate all of these types of collaborations to ensure that the migration to your new library service platform is as successful as possible? In this presentation, I will talk about these different types of collaborations at the University of Massachusetts Amherst which is part of the Five College Consortium as we as a consortium migrate to the open source library service platform FOLIO.
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Does Working in Batch Mean Sacrificing Quality Metadata?
(2019) Eustis, Jennifer M.
Batch processing metadata for electronic resources means working with records of varying quality. Common issues include titles in all sorts of cases, missing information such as publication, URLs, or fixed field data, lack of information needed for local best practices, or inconsistent vendor and/or OCLC numbers. These issues can be daunting and involve a significant amount of cleanup that can slow the batch processing down or make it ineffective. To help process title sets of records, I have begun using a suite of tools that include MarcEdit, OpenRefine, Excel, and Python. These tools help me address common issues and implement local practices in batch. The results are better quality metadata records that facilitate access and discovery. My presentation will highlight how I use these tools with examples. My hope is that attendees can learn from these examples and use these tools in their own batch processing.
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Adopting a Method to Evaluate Bibliographic Electronic Resource Title Sets of Metadata
(2019) Eustis, Jennifer M.
This article briefly describes how a method to evaluate title sets of metadata that are batch loaded into the catalog is being developed.
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Keep Calm & Migrate On: Getting Buy in for Consortial Changes During a Migration
(2021) Eustis, Jennifer M.
Library systems migrations are disruptive. Cleanup projects start sometimes years in advance. Workflows and processes are reviewed and often are changed. There might be staff who remember the last migration with not so fond memories of it. Other staff might be afraid of how their workflows are changing and if those changes will upend years of work. Others might push for more radical changes making those who don’t want changes even more nervous. There are numerous working parts and gears. All too often communication becomes an issue. How, when, and what to communicate to which groups is not always evident. Imagine this at the consortial level. In this presentation, I will share how the Five College Consortium has adapted and built on a grassroots approach to communication and decision making called open houses for our migration project.
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Transforming Roles for Catalog/Metadata Librarians through New Intitiatives
(2016) Eustis, Jennifer M.
Like many academic libraries, new services and jobs are being driven by the latest developments in the worlds of science and the humanities. In a 2010 press release, the National Science Foundation announced that it would require a data management plan as a supplementary two page document to grant submissions. NSF’s decision was driven by e-Science. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as large scale and intensely computational science carried out often on the Internet and research shared across disciplines and with diverse data practices from different research communities. The second movement is the digital humanities, loosely defined as a learning community focused on reflexive engagements with digital tools and methods to investigate the humanities giving rise to a number of initiatives such as the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. Both compel academic libraries to re-assess how they serve researchers’ data needs and call for new service models. Innovative services from catalog/metadata units are particularly significant because both initiatives require knowledge of and seek help in metadata. In this chapter, I will explore the impacts of e-Science and the Digital Humanities that result in original services such as reference, consultation, instruction, planning, documentation, ontologies, or metadata creation and maintenance that allow for collaboration within the library and beyond.
Open Access
Introduction to MarcEdit Part I and II
(2019) Eustis, Jennifer M.
This presentations introduces the basics and more advanced features of MarcEdit, a MARC editing tool.
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Empowering Through Staff Training and Team Skill Building
(2019) Eustis, Jennifer M.; Bergin, Meghan
This topic aims to open up a discussion on how staff training and skill building workshops can empower both veteran and new staff in technical services and cross train staff outside of technical services on metadata and cataloging projects. Training and skill building occur frequently in and out of the office. At UMass Amherst, several staff have moved on, new staff have arrived, and the library is preparing for a migration to a new Library Services Platform. These changes have led to staff taking on new responsibilities and well as several cross training opportunities. Workshops have been recently offered to learn new software such as Outlook calendar, Trello, and Slack. Other workshops have been offered to prepare people to better their use cataloging tools such as MarcEdit and OpenRefine. Documentation has been updated or created to help staff learn new workflows such as cataloging music, updating local holdings records with OCLC, cataloging archival books, or how to handle batch loading.
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Managing Futures: Working towards the Future You Need
(2023) Eustis, Jennifer M.
Migrating to a new library service platform can be a daunting project. It involves stakeholders inside and outside the organization. It could potentially involve consortia activities and add another layer of stakeholders. One could conclude that a library migration involves almost every aspect of a library’s activities. It certainly requires a significant amount of change where views may differ on the need for a migration or the role that technical services play. Those views are most likely associated with widely held expectations. Hence, measuring the success of a migration relies on not just the completion of technical tasks but also if that migration met the community of users’ expectations. This begs the question of how it is possible to manage expectations that are met by stakeholders. In this presentation, the presenter will cover concepts on managing expectations and highlight examples of both successful and unsuccessful strategies at all stages of a migration.
Open Access
Describing Data Repositories
(2014) Eustis, Jennifer M.
With the rise of eScience, subject liaisons must become familiar with disciplinary data repositories to better serve their clientele. Research data can often be deposited in one or more repositories. For researchers who are not well informed or work in fields that have yet to develop a data repository existing lists such as DataBib, Registry of Research Data Repositories or OpenDOAR provide a combined list of up to 2000 data repositories but little information about each one. Subject liaisons at the University of Connecticut Libraries can help researchers find appropriate data repositories for data submission and discovery. However, with such a large listing, how do subject liaisons evaluate repositories in their disciplines? To support our subject liaisons better evaluate data repositories and to give them more confidence to help their faculty in eScience, we created the “Describe Your Data Repository” survey.
Open Access
Getting Started with LDLite for FOLIO Reporting
(2023) Eustis, Jennifer M.
This presentations introduced LDLite. The main points covered were: what the tool is, pros and cons, what data it works with, how it gets data, live demo. There was a live demo covering the tables and structure in DBeaver and how to get data from different tables.