Ex Libris

Scaling Metadata for Growing Digital Collections Metadata has always been the foundation of successful digital collections. It enables discovery, provides context, supports accessibility, and helps researchers connect with materials that might otherwise remain hidden. Whether a library is managing photographs, manuscripts, oral histories, archival records, maps, or audiovisua...

Conversations about Artificial Intelligence in higher education often focus on teaching, learning and research. In academic libraries, some of the most immediate opportunities may be found elsewhere: in the operational workflows that consume significant staff time each day. Academic libraries are under increasing pressure to support more users, more content and more institu...

How libraries can transition from MARC to linked data without disrupting cataloging workflows   MARC has shaped library cataloging for more than half a century, giving libraries a durable way to describe, exchange and manage bibliographic records across systems and institutions. That foundation still matters. But discovery now depends on more than accurate records. It […]

Academic libraries hold growing collections of archives, born-digital materials and institutional scholarship with enormous potential for research, teaching and community engagement. But making these materials discoverable, usable and sustainable is increasingly difficult as collections expand, expectations change and library teams work with limited staff and budgets. These...