The first ETD that I did subject cataloging for today was Depression, Anxiety, and Social Support Fail to Predict Heart Rate Recovery in Exercise Stress Test Patients by Colleen Marie Cole Mattson. This ETD is basically whether depression, anxiety, and lack of social support have predict negative effects on the recovery of people who have suffered from cardiovascular disease. As the title suggest, these things fail to predict this. I had a hard time deciding whether to use the heading "Heart--Diseases" or "Coronary heart disease." At first I decided on the former, but a search on WorldCat returned that more records with the latter convinced me to use the latter. I also decided to use the heading "Cardiovascular system--Disease" as well because the ETD refers to it quite a bit. These references also caused me to use this heading as the first subject heading. Then, I decided to use the subdivision "Psychosomatic effects" for both "Coronary heart disease" and "Cardiovascular system--Disease" because it showed up often in the WorldCat searches I did and because the Wikipedia article on "Psychosomatic medicine" said that it was "the influence that mind has over physical processes." Here's the headings that I decided to use:
650 0 Cardiovascular system ǂx Diseases ǂx Psychosomatic effects.
The second ETD I worked on today was Development and Characterization of Blue Phases Made From Bent-Core Liquid Crystals by Stephanie Tausanoff. I've heard horror stories about Liquid Crystal ETDs from the other people in the office since I started working on my practicum, and this was my first Liquid Crystal ETD. And it did not disappoint. This ETD used a lot of terminology that I didn't understand and wasn't in LCSH. I tried several different terms and all of the searches came up empty. I eventually just decided to use this as my only heading:
650 0 Liquid crystals.
I didn't get as much work done today because of a really interesting lecture on the history of the West Virginian constitution. The speaker was really good and very funny. Time to start the weekend!
Friday, September 16, 2011
Day 6, Descriptive Cataloging the Second Batch
Day 6
09/16/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 48
On Tuesday, I finished subject cataloging all of the first batch of ETD records that were in the system when I first started my practicum. Now I am starting on the second batch of ETDs that contains 18 records. My first batch of ETDs cotained 12 records.09/16/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 48
Since I hadn't done any descriptive cataloging of ETDs in two weeks, I had to readjust to doing it and remember all of the steps that needed to be taken to make sure that the record is accurate. I made a couple of mistakes in the beginning, but I quickly discovered that I had made them and corrected them. While working with these records, I came across something that I haven't dealt with yet. For two of the records in the new batch, the full-text version has not been released yet and won't be released while I'm doing my practicum. Sevim guided me through what to do in this kind of situation, and it was pretty easy to deal with. I was able to deal with the second one of these by myself.
Half of the records in the new batch need a Name Authority Record (NAR) because either the authors didn't follow the directions and use the same name they used in their thesis or dissertation on the ETD form, or the author has an common name that's already in the Authority Record.
I finally got a Philosophy thesis. That makes me pretty happy. I believe it is about Aristotle. Maybe it'll give me a good idea of what I want to do mine on whenever I get the opportunity. I can't think of anything else to add.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Day 5, ETD Work
The first ETD I worked on today was Conceptualizing Audience in Digital Invention by Elizabeth Conrad-Reiter Tomlinson. This is an ETD that I've been putting off doing because it didn't seem very clear what exactly it was about, and there also wasn't a chapter labeled "Introduction." I had a hard time pinning down what subject headings I wanted to use for this ETD, but after searching I finally made some decisions. The first heading that I wanted to use was "Writers," but that is not an official heading and it sends you to "Authors" when you want to use it. Even though "Authors" isn't exactly the heading I would like to use, I'm going to use it. The other heading that I found that I think is perfect is "Online identities." This ETD is about "how audience considerations inform the text-based identity construction of writers composing in digital environments" and the author uses examples of people creating online identities on networking and dating sites. This subject heading is kind of perfect. I also thought about using the heading "Rhetoric" because the author talks about it rhetoric in the dissertation and it is the subject heading on the OhioLINK ETD entry, but I don't think that the ETD is really about Rhetoric. So I ended up with:
650 0Online identities.
650 0Authors.
When Sevim and I went over this one, we decided to add "Online social networks" because the ETD talks about creating online identities on eHarmony and LinkedIn. We also decided to remove "Authors" because it might make people think that this ETD is about famous, published authors. So we ended up with:
650 0 Online identities
650 0 Online social networks
The second ETD I did was Consonance in Information Systems Projects: A Relationship Marketing Perspective by Pei-Ying Lin. The title of this ETD basically told me what it was about, and the abstract and introduction confirmed it. The author defines consonance as "harmony or agreement among components." The ETD was basically using Relationship Marketing to get everyone on the same page on Information Systems projects. Relationship marketing has its own heading in LCSH, but Information Systems does not. I used wikipedia to figure out that Information Systems is "an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study." I had a hard time determining which subject heading to use. I eventually found the heading "Management information systems." and made the decision to use it. I could not find anything to represent the consonance aspect of this ETD. I'm going to ask Sevim about it when we look over it. Here what I ended up putting:
650 0Relationship marketing.
650 0Management information systems.
Sevim didn't like the "Management information systems" heading because she thought it was too specific and might people think that it was specifically about management information systems. We made the topic broader by using "Information storage and retrieval systems." She also suggested that we add the heading "Project management" because the ETD is about making people come to one mind while working on Information Systems projects. We kept the "Relationship marketing" heading and based our call number off of it.
650 0 Relationship marketing
650 0 Project management
650 0 Information storage and retrieval systems
The third ETD I cataloged today was Development of a Landslide Hazard Rating System for Selected Counties in Northeastern Ohio by Ahmad Yousef Dalqamouni. This one was pretty straightforward. The ETD is simply about the development of a landslide hazard rating system in Northeastern Ohio, and I found the heading "Landslide Hazard analysis" which fits perfectly. I subdivided that heading by "Ohio." That seemed to be all I needed. Here's what's in Connexion:
650 0Landslide hazard analysis ǂz Ohio.
Sevim was pretty happy with this one and made no changes to it.
The last ETD that I cataloged today was the one that I had been putting off and was most frustrating. It is Conservatism, Earnings Persistence, and the Accruals Anomaly by Gulraze Wakil. This ETD is an Accounting dissertation, and it caused me several headaches. I tried to enlist my sister to see if she could help me with it, and she gave me some ideas. In the end, I contacted the author, and he told me that the term that I had been thinking about ("accural basis accounting") was not the term he would use but he suggested another term also. Unfortunately the first term he suggested was not in LCSH, but the second term he suggested was. Sevim and I decided to go with the broad "Accounting" as the first subject heading. The second heading we used was "Capital market" which was suggested by the author. This is what we ended up with:
650 0Accounting.
650 0Capital market.
After completing all of these, I started working on the descriptive cataloging for a brand new batch of ETDs.
650 0Online identities.
650 0Authors.
When Sevim and I went over this one, we decided to add "Online social networks" because the ETD talks about creating online identities on eHarmony and LinkedIn. We also decided to remove "Authors" because it might make people think that this ETD is about famous, published authors. So we ended up with:
650 0 Online identities
650 0 Online social networks
The second ETD I did was Consonance in Information Systems Projects: A Relationship Marketing Perspective by Pei-Ying Lin. The title of this ETD basically told me what it was about, and the abstract and introduction confirmed it. The author defines consonance as "harmony or agreement among components." The ETD was basically using Relationship Marketing to get everyone on the same page on Information Systems projects. Relationship marketing has its own heading in LCSH, but Information Systems does not. I used wikipedia to figure out that Information Systems is "an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study." I had a hard time determining which subject heading to use. I eventually found the heading "Management information systems." and made the decision to use it. I could not find anything to represent the consonance aspect of this ETD. I'm going to ask Sevim about it when we look over it. Here what I ended up putting:
650 0Relationship marketing.
650 0Management information systems.
Sevim didn't like the "Management information systems" heading because she thought it was too specific and might people think that it was specifically about management information systems. We made the topic broader by using "Information storage and retrieval systems." She also suggested that we add the heading "Project management" because the ETD is about making people come to one mind while working on Information Systems projects. We kept the "Relationship marketing" heading and based our call number off of it.
650 0 Relationship marketing
650 0 Project management
650 0 Information storage and retrieval systems
The third ETD I cataloged today was Development of a Landslide Hazard Rating System for Selected Counties in Northeastern Ohio by Ahmad Yousef Dalqamouni. This one was pretty straightforward. The ETD is simply about the development of a landslide hazard rating system in Northeastern Ohio, and I found the heading "Landslide Hazard analysis" which fits perfectly. I subdivided that heading by "Ohio." That seemed to be all I needed. Here's what's in Connexion:
650 0Landslide hazard analysis ǂz Ohio.
Sevim was pretty happy with this one and made no changes to it.
The last ETD that I cataloged today was the one that I had been putting off and was most frustrating. It is Conservatism, Earnings Persistence, and the Accruals Anomaly by Gulraze Wakil. This ETD is an Accounting dissertation, and it caused me several headaches. I tried to enlist my sister to see if she could help me with it, and she gave me some ideas. In the end, I contacted the author, and he told me that the term that I had been thinking about ("accural basis accounting") was not the term he would use but he suggested another term also. Unfortunately the first term he suggested was not in LCSH, but the second term he suggested was. Sevim and I decided to go with the broad "Accounting" as the first subject heading. The second heading we used was "Capital market" which was suggested by the author. This is what we ended up with:
650 0Accounting.
650 0Capital market.
After completing all of these, I started working on the descriptive cataloging for a brand new batch of ETDs.
Day 5, Checking Friday's Work
Day 5
09/13/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 40
The first I did today when I got into the office was get Sevim to check the last two ETDs I worked on yesterday which were Use of Remote Sensing in the Collection of Discontinuity data for the Analysis and Design of Cut Slopes and Grammar Efficiency of Parts-of-Speech Systems.
For the first one, the only changes that I made were to remove:
650 0Statstistics.
which left me with:
650 0Slopes (soil mechanics) ǂx Stability.
650 0Remote sensing.
I want to note that Wikipedia helped me get some information with remote sensing that helped me make the decision I made.
For the second one, Sevim said that the two headings that I gave were good after I explained why I had chosen them. The main thing I explained was why I chose "Computational Linguistics" which was because after searching WorldCat for works with "Mathematical Linguistics" as a subject heading, many of them also had "Computational linguistics." Also, this ETD seemed to put a lot of emphasis on the number crunching which seems computational to me. So I ended up with:
650 0 Mathematical linguistics.
650 0 Computational linguistics.
Wikipedia wasn't really helpful with this one.
09/13/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 40
The first I did today when I got into the office was get Sevim to check the last two ETDs I worked on yesterday which were Use of Remote Sensing in the Collection of Discontinuity data for the Analysis and Design of Cut Slopes and Grammar Efficiency of Parts-of-Speech Systems.
For the first one, the only changes that I made were to remove:
650 0Statstistics.
which left me with:
650 0Slopes (soil mechanics) ǂx Stability.
650 0Remote sensing.
I want to note that Wikipedia helped me get some information with remote sensing that helped me make the decision I made.
For the second one, Sevim said that the two headings that I gave were good after I explained why I had chosen them. The main thing I explained was why I chose "Computational Linguistics" which was because after searching WorldCat for works with "Mathematical Linguistics" as a subject heading, many of them also had "Computational linguistics." Also, this ETD seemed to put a lot of emphasis on the number crunching which seems computational to me. So I ended up with:
650 0 Mathematical linguistics.
650 0 Computational linguistics.
Wikipedia wasn't really helpful with this one.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Day 4
Day 4
09/09/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 32
The first thing I did today was go over the work that I did on Tuesday since Sevim had to leave early. I did fairly well on all of the records that I worked on.
On Socioecological of the Guianan bearded saki, Chiropotes sagulatus, all the headings that I chose were used in the final record. This file was completed.
For Value Relevance of Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry, the only subject heading that I could think of was:
650 0Pharmaceutical industry ǂz United States.
Sevim and I talked and thought about this ETD for a while, but neither of us could come up with any better subject headings so we just stuck with this one.
Collaborating with Industry to Ensure Regulatory Oversight: The Use of Voluntary Safety Reporting Programs by the Federal Aviation Administration was the ETD that was the one that I think we spent the most time going over. Sevim said that I should change both "Aeronautics, Commercial" headings to "Airlines." We also added the subdivision "United States" onto both of the now "Airlines" headings. Those were the changes we made. This is what the subject headings looked like after we were finished:
650 0Airlines ǂx Self-regulation ǂz United States.
650 0Airlines ǂx Safety regulations ǂz United States.
61010United States. ǂb Federal Aviation Administration.
After we finished going over those records, I decided to read an article that Sevim emailed me yesterday. The article was about subject analysis of ETDs in the Hard Sciences. I found this article extremely helpful, and after reading it, I decided to tackle some of the hard science ETDs on my list.
The first ETD I worked on was called Mitochondrial heteroplasmy in Mimulus Guttatus. This ETD was about "the causes and consequences of mitochondrial heteroplasmy in Mimulus guttatus (Phrymaceae), a flowering plant." The first thing I learned was that the Mimulus Guttatus is called the Common Monkeyflower. I learned this from looking up Mimulus Guttatus in ClassificationWeb. After using Google, I found a good definition of heteroplasmy from the Genetics Home Reference ("The situation in which, within a single cell, there is a mixture of mitochondria (energy producing cytoplasmic organelles), some containing mutant DNA and some containing normal DNA"). Because this definition contained the word, mutant, I decided to use the subject heading "Plant mutation." I decided to subdivide the heading "Common Monkeyflower" with "Genetics" because this paper seemed to be focused on the genetics of the common monkeyflower. When Sevim came over to check my work, we spent some time trying to find out as much information about all of this as we could and eventually decided to stick with those two headings. So my entry in the record looked like this:
650 0Common monkeyflower ǂx Genetics.
650 0Plant mutation.
The second article I cataloged today was The role of vasopressin 1b receptor in the regulation of sensorimotor gating. This article was pretty tough to catalog. The only heading that I came up with on my own was "Vasopressing -- Physiological effects." Determining this heading was pretty easy. But I felt that there were more headings that could be added, but I had a hard time thinking of what they should be. I thought about adding the heading "Neurosciences," but I wasn't sure. Sevim came to check the work I had done at about this time because she was about to leave. We both were pretty stumped by this one. But after using Worldcat and Wikipedia, we finally settled on the heading "Sensorimotor integrating." We decided on this heading because we wanted to have a subject heading about sensorimotor gating because it's an important part of the ETD, but there was not a heading for that in LCSH. We found "Sensorimotor integrating" after doing some searches on WorldCat for "sensorimotor gating." So we decided to use it. The final product looked like this:
650 0Vasopressin ǂx Physiological effects.
650 0Sensorimotor integration.
The third ETD I worked on was Use of Remote Sensing in the Collection of Discontinuity data for the Analysis and Design of Cut Slopes by James E. Fisher. This one seemed pretty straight forward from looking at the title and the abstract. I have decided on the following subject headings:
650 0Slopes (soil mechanics) ǂx Stability.
650 0Statstistics.
650 0Remote sensing.
I picked "Slopes (soil mechanics) ǂx Stability" because the abstract talked about slope stability and LCSH directs you to the heading I used when searching for slope stability. The abstract talks about statistical analysis and LCSH leads you to the heading "Statistics" when searching for that. Finally, remote sensing seemed very important to the ETD, so I put that in there as well. I'm thinking of looking to see if I can add "Cut slopes" as well, but I'm not sure.
The last ETD I worked on today was "Grammar Efficiency of Parts-of-Speech Systems. This ETD is giving me some trouble. The title gives a good indication as to what it is about, but I didn't know how to turn that into subject headings. Bonita directed me to look at the keyworkds and I found "Mathematical linguistics" which is an LCSH heading as well. I'm thinking of adding "Computational Mathematics" because of a WorldCat search I performed.
It's time to get out of here and enjoy the weekend!
09/09/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 32
The first thing I did today was go over the work that I did on Tuesday since Sevim had to leave early. I did fairly well on all of the records that I worked on.
On Socioecological of the Guianan bearded saki, Chiropotes sagulatus, all the headings that I chose were used in the final record. This file was completed.
For Value Relevance of Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry, the only subject heading that I could think of was:
650 0Pharmaceutical industry ǂz United States.
Sevim and I talked and thought about this ETD for a while, but neither of us could come up with any better subject headings so we just stuck with this one.
Collaborating with Industry to Ensure Regulatory Oversight: The Use of Voluntary Safety Reporting Programs by the Federal Aviation Administration was the ETD that was the one that I think we spent the most time going over. Sevim said that I should change both "Aeronautics, Commercial" headings to "Airlines." We also added the subdivision "United States" onto both of the now "Airlines" headings. Those were the changes we made. This is what the subject headings looked like after we were finished:
650 0Airlines ǂx Self-regulation ǂz United States.
650 0Airlines ǂx Safety regulations ǂz United States.
61010United States. ǂb Federal Aviation Administration.
After we finished going over those records, I decided to read an article that Sevim emailed me yesterday. The article was about subject analysis of ETDs in the Hard Sciences. I found this article extremely helpful, and after reading it, I decided to tackle some of the hard science ETDs on my list.
The first ETD I worked on was called Mitochondrial heteroplasmy in Mimulus Guttatus. This ETD was about "the causes and consequences of mitochondrial heteroplasmy in Mimulus guttatus (Phrymaceae), a flowering plant." The first thing I learned was that the Mimulus Guttatus is called the Common Monkeyflower. I learned this from looking up Mimulus Guttatus in ClassificationWeb. After using Google, I found a good definition of heteroplasmy from the Genetics Home Reference ("The situation in which, within a single cell, there is a mixture of mitochondria (energy producing cytoplasmic organelles), some containing mutant DNA and some containing normal DNA"). Because this definition contained the word, mutant, I decided to use the subject heading "Plant mutation." I decided to subdivide the heading "Common Monkeyflower" with "Genetics" because this paper seemed to be focused on the genetics of the common monkeyflower. When Sevim came over to check my work, we spent some time trying to find out as much information about all of this as we could and eventually decided to stick with those two headings. So my entry in the record looked like this:
650 0Common monkeyflower ǂx Genetics.
650 0Plant mutation.
The second article I cataloged today was The role of vasopressin 1b receptor in the regulation of sensorimotor gating. This article was pretty tough to catalog. The only heading that I came up with on my own was "Vasopressing -- Physiological effects." Determining this heading was pretty easy. But I felt that there were more headings that could be added, but I had a hard time thinking of what they should be. I thought about adding the heading "Neurosciences," but I wasn't sure. Sevim came to check the work I had done at about this time because she was about to leave. We both were pretty stumped by this one. But after using Worldcat and Wikipedia, we finally settled on the heading "Sensorimotor integrating." We decided on this heading because we wanted to have a subject heading about sensorimotor gating because it's an important part of the ETD, but there was not a heading for that in LCSH. We found "Sensorimotor integrating" after doing some searches on WorldCat for "sensorimotor gating." So we decided to use it. The final product looked like this:
650 0Vasopressin ǂx Physiological effects.
650 0Sensorimotor integration.
The third ETD I worked on was Use of Remote Sensing in the Collection of Discontinuity data for the Analysis and Design of Cut Slopes by James E. Fisher. This one seemed pretty straight forward from looking at the title and the abstract. I have decided on the following subject headings:
650 0Slopes (soil mechanics) ǂx Stability.
650 0Statstistics.
650 0Remote sensing.
I picked "Slopes (soil mechanics) ǂx Stability" because the abstract talked about slope stability and LCSH directs you to the heading I used when searching for slope stability. The abstract talks about statistical analysis and LCSH leads you to the heading "Statistics" when searching for that. Finally, remote sensing seemed very important to the ETD, so I put that in there as well. I'm thinking of looking to see if I can add "Cut slopes" as well, but I'm not sure.
The last ETD I worked on today was "Grammar Efficiency of Parts-of-Speech Systems. This ETD is giving me some trouble. The title gives a good indication as to what it is about, but I didn't know how to turn that into subject headings. Bonita directed me to look at the keyworkds and I found "Mathematical linguistics" which is an LCSH heading as well. I'm thinking of adding "Computational Mathematics" because of a WorldCat search I performed.
It's time to get out of here and enjoy the weekend!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Day 3
Day 3
09/06/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 24
Today was a very busy day for my practicum. I started the day by finishing up a little reading I had been doing over the last two days I've been here. After that, Sevim gave me a task involving fixing some ETD records in KentLINK and an Excel spreadsheet. I had to find the Department of the ETDs and put the right 793 field in the MARC record in KentLINK using Millennium and also add that information to the Excel spreadsheet. This task did not take me very long, but I liked that it allowed me to get some more experience use Millennium which will be really helpful to know in the long run.
I worked on four ETD records today and completely finished the first one I did. It's the first one I've completely finished and have uploaded to KentLINK. I'm very happy about this.
The first ETD I did was title Challenging Appropriation: Modern Moko and Western Subculture by Ridgley Dunn. This was a very interesting ETD. It was about the Maori (of New Zealand) tradition of ta moko which is a form of tattooing that involves carving the skin rather than simply puncturing it.
Ta moko has great cultural significance to the Maori. The ETD talks about how the effect of Western usage of Ta moko effects the Maori. It also discusses groups such as the Modern Primitives who have adopted this practice. The subject headings for this ETD weren't too hard to pin down, but I had to make some adjustments after Sevim looked over them, but overall, I thought it wasn't too bad. I found Wikipedia really helpful in learning exactly what Ta moko was and how it is different from normal tattoos. I really enjoyed this ETD. Here's the subject headings I chose:
650 0 Tattooing |z New Zealand
650 0 Maori (New Zealand people) |x Social life and customs
650 0 Identity (Psychology) |z New Zealand
The next ETD I worked on was Socioecological of the Guianan bearded saki, Chiropotes sagulatus by L. Tremaine Gregory. I had a pretty easy time with this ETD. I used Wikipedia to find more information about the bearded saki which helped me find the appropriate subject heading for this type of monkey. I also found a previous work by the author about the bearded saki which had subject headings that helped guide me. I ended up choosing these subject headings:
650 0Pitheciidae ǂx Behavior ǂz Suriname.
650 0Pitheciidae ǂx Ecology ǂz Suriname.
61010Brownsberg Nature Park (Suriname)
There wasn't an authority file for the Brownsberg Nature Park, and I'm going to ask Sevim about this when I see her on Friday. I chose to add the park as a subject heading because a previous work used it as a subject heading and because the research took place at this park.
The third ETD I cataloged was Value Relevance of Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry by Mary E. Schramm. This ETD was about how innovation drives growth in the pharmaceutical industry. I'm going to have to go back and look at this one. The only subject heading I've chosen so far is: Pharmaceutical Industry. I'm deciding on whether or not I want to add the subdivision technological innovation or not as well as any other subject headings. This one was a little tricky.
The last one that I worked on today was Collaborating with Industry to Ensure Regulatory Oversight: The Use of Voluntary Safety Reporting Programs by the Federal Aviation Administration by Russell William Mills. This article was about how the voluntary safety reporting of the FAA is working really well in spite of the disasters that have occurred in other industry where voluntary safety reporting has also occurred. For this ETD I chose the following subject headings:
650 0Aeronautics, Commercial ǂx Safety regulations.
650 0Aeronautics, Commercial ǂx Self-regulation.
61020United States. ǂb Federal Aviation Administration
650 0Administrative agencies.
I'm not 100% happy with these headings. I'm not sure if I can add Self-regulation to Aeronautics, Commercial. Unfortunately, I don't think any other subject headings really apply to this ETD.
That's all that I'm going to write today.
09/06/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours: 24
Today was a very busy day for my practicum. I started the day by finishing up a little reading I had been doing over the last two days I've been here. After that, Sevim gave me a task involving fixing some ETD records in KentLINK and an Excel spreadsheet. I had to find the Department of the ETDs and put the right 793 field in the MARC record in KentLINK using Millennium and also add that information to the Excel spreadsheet. This task did not take me very long, but I liked that it allowed me to get some more experience use Millennium which will be really helpful to know in the long run.
I worked on four ETD records today and completely finished the first one I did. It's the first one I've completely finished and have uploaded to KentLINK. I'm very happy about this.
The first ETD I did was title Challenging Appropriation: Modern Moko and Western Subculture by Ridgley Dunn. This was a very interesting ETD. It was about the Maori (of New Zealand) tradition of ta moko which is a form of tattooing that involves carving the skin rather than simply puncturing it.
Ta moko has great cultural significance to the Maori. The ETD talks about how the effect of Western usage of Ta moko effects the Maori. It also discusses groups such as the Modern Primitives who have adopted this practice. The subject headings for this ETD weren't too hard to pin down, but I had to make some adjustments after Sevim looked over them, but overall, I thought it wasn't too bad. I found Wikipedia really helpful in learning exactly what Ta moko was and how it is different from normal tattoos. I really enjoyed this ETD. Here's the subject headings I chose:
650 0 Tattooing |z New Zealand
650 0 Maori (New Zealand people) |x Social life and customs
650 0 Identity (Psychology) |z New Zealand
The next ETD I worked on was Socioecological of the Guianan bearded saki, Chiropotes sagulatus by L. Tremaine Gregory. I had a pretty easy time with this ETD. I used Wikipedia to find more information about the bearded saki which helped me find the appropriate subject heading for this type of monkey. I also found a previous work by the author about the bearded saki which had subject headings that helped guide me. I ended up choosing these subject headings:
650 0Pitheciidae ǂx Behavior ǂz Suriname.
650 0Pitheciidae ǂx Ecology ǂz Suriname.
61010Brownsberg Nature Park (Suriname)
There wasn't an authority file for the Brownsberg Nature Park, and I'm going to ask Sevim about this when I see her on Friday. I chose to add the park as a subject heading because a previous work used it as a subject heading and because the research took place at this park.
The third ETD I cataloged was Value Relevance of Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry by Mary E. Schramm. This ETD was about how innovation drives growth in the pharmaceutical industry. I'm going to have to go back and look at this one. The only subject heading I've chosen so far is: Pharmaceutical Industry. I'm deciding on whether or not I want to add the subdivision technological innovation or not as well as any other subject headings. This one was a little tricky.
The last one that I worked on today was Collaborating with Industry to Ensure Regulatory Oversight: The Use of Voluntary Safety Reporting Programs by the Federal Aviation Administration by Russell William Mills. This article was about how the voluntary safety reporting of the FAA is working really well in spite of the disasters that have occurred in other industry where voluntary safety reporting has also occurred. For this ETD I chose the following subject headings:
650 0Aeronautics, Commercial ǂx Safety regulations.
650 0Aeronautics, Commercial ǂx Self-regulation.
61020United States. ǂb Federal Aviation Administration
650 0Administrative agencies.
I'm not 100% happy with these headings. I'm not sure if I can add Self-regulation to Aeronautics, Commercial. Unfortunately, I don't think any other subject headings really apply to this ETD.
That's all that I'm going to write today.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Day 2
Day 2
09/02/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours:16
Today started off with some technical issues which haven't been completely resolved yet. Hopefully they will be resolved by the time I come in on Tuesday.
Today I started actually working with ETDs. First I was shown how to find the records in OCLC Connexion. After that, Sevim guided me through the process of determining what description elements needed to be added to the Bibliographic records. I worked on one with Sevim guiding me through the process, then I worked on a few by myself which Sevim check after I finished them. I did fairly well on adding the descriptive data, only making a few errors. After that, I finished the rest of them. One thing I learned from dealing with the descriptive data is that people who right theses and dissertations cannot follow directions when it comes to putting the same name on the dissertation or theses and the ETD form.
After I came back from lunch, I proceeded to read some things about LCSH and subject cataloging and the introduction of the first ETD that I was going to do the subject cataloging for. The dissertation I cataloged was about Pennsylvanian politicians', like Ben Franklin, influence on the United States during the time of the American Revolution and afterwards. After working with Sevim, I decided on five subject headings:
Pennsylvania ǂx Politics and government ǂy 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania ǂx History ǂy Revolution, 1775-1783.
Franklin, Benjamin, ǂd 1706-1790 ǂx Influence.
Morris, Robert, ǂd 1734-1806 ǂx Influence.
United States ǂx Foreign relations ǂx History ǂy 18th century.
United States ǂx Commerce ǂx History ǂy 18th century.
I tried some other ones, but I found that these worked the best. The other ETDs that I will be doing will be much more difficult because they will be in subject areas that I don't understand as much.
09/02/2011
Start time: 8:00
[1 Hour Lunch]
End time: 5:00
Hours Worked: 8
Total Hours:16
Today started off with some technical issues which haven't been completely resolved yet. Hopefully they will be resolved by the time I come in on Tuesday.
Today I started actually working with ETDs. First I was shown how to find the records in OCLC Connexion. After that, Sevim guided me through the process of determining what description elements needed to be added to the Bibliographic records. I worked on one with Sevim guiding me through the process, then I worked on a few by myself which Sevim check after I finished them. I did fairly well on adding the descriptive data, only making a few errors. After that, I finished the rest of them. One thing I learned from dealing with the descriptive data is that people who right theses and dissertations cannot follow directions when it comes to putting the same name on the dissertation or theses and the ETD form.
After I came back from lunch, I proceeded to read some things about LCSH and subject cataloging and the introduction of the first ETD that I was going to do the subject cataloging for. The dissertation I cataloged was about Pennsylvanian politicians', like Ben Franklin, influence on the United States during the time of the American Revolution and afterwards. After working with Sevim, I decided on five subject headings:
Pennsylvania ǂx Politics and government ǂy 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania ǂx History ǂy Revolution, 1775-1783.
Franklin, Benjamin, ǂd 1706-1790 ǂx Influence.
Morris, Robert, ǂd 1734-1806 ǂx Influence.
United States ǂx Foreign relations ǂx History ǂy 18th century.
United States ǂx Commerce ǂx History ǂy 18th century.
I tried some other ones, but I found that these worked the best. The other ETDs that I will be doing will be much more difficult because they will be in subject areas that I don't understand as much.
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