All
digital products of the DLIR progam are freely available over the
internet. The following services are provided to members of the
Council of American
Overseas Research Centers and their affiliates as an established
framework for the creation of digital resources.
Cataloging assistance
The
DLIR is a member of OCLC,
a nonprofit membership and computer library service and research
organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access
to the world's information and reducing the rate of rise of library
costs. In OCLC's WorldCat, the world's largest and most comprehensive
catalog, DLIR holdings appear with the symbol of AMODL. CAORC maintains
a subscription that allows members, through a central coordinator,
to use OCLC's WorldCat Quality Management Services for some cataloging
tasks. These include the following:
• Automated searching of OCLC
's Worldcat for copy cataloging
• Downloaded records from OCLC's Worldcat
• MARC record creation for unmatched records.
Online
catalog
The
DLIR supports the maintenance of an online union catalog and an
online public access interface (OPAC) customized for individual
centers and affiliated partner libraries. The DLIR
catalog (a Millennium system by Innovative Interfaces, Inc.),
is shared with the Center
for Research Libraries (CRL) and maintained at CRL. It continues
to grow rapidly as new materials are acquired and cataloged. This
union catalog supplies centers with the opportunity to have an efficient
research level catalog with little in-house effort.
Participation in
grant-funded projects
Through its DLIR program, CAORC organizes multi-center projects
and applies to funding agencies on their behalf to achieve specific
goals, including these past projects:
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American Overseas Digital Library catalog project established
the DLIR union catalog at the University of Utah's Marriott
Library and created procedures for submitting records (U.S.
Department of Education, TICFIA program)
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Retroconversion of Library Catalogs in the Middle East and Mediterranean
Basin created almost 50,000 records for participating libraries
(The Getty Foundation)
-
Mapping Mediterranean Lands cataloged map collections at centers
in the Mediterranean region (U.S. Department of State, ECA)
-
Middle
East Research Journals cataloged journals, created preservation
microfilm, and digitized journals for online access at centers
in the Middle East (Institute of Museum and Library Services)
-
JSTOR project provided low-cost or free access to the JSTOR
journal archive for participating centers (Mellon Foundation
and JSTOR)
-
DLIR
Training (April 2008 : Chicago, IL) provided a 10-day library
training program for representatives from 12 centers participating
both in the JSTOR project and DLIR catalog (The Getty Foundation
and CRL)
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The Millennium project migrated the DLIR catalog from the University
of Utah's Marriott Library to CRL where it shares an Innovative
Interfaces, Inc. Millennium system. Individual OPACs were established
for each participating library (The Getty Foundation and CRL)
Current
projects
Services
of the DLIR Project Coordinator
The
DLIR Project Coordinator serves as a central project manager for
funded projects, and as a single interface for management of the
DLIR catalog with CRL's technical staff, OCLC/WorldCat services,
JSTOR subscriptions, and the DLIR web site.
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