Knowledge access management at Lied Library: cataloging and Web site reengineering
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/07378830210420717 |
| Published date | 01 March 2002 |
| Pages | 90-103 |
| Date | 01 March 2002 |
| Author | Brad Eden,Kenneth J. Bierman |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management,Library & information science |
Knowledge access
management at Lied
Library: cataloging and
Web site reengineering
Brad Eden and
Kenneth J. Bierman
Introduction
Major new buildings can be catalysts for
substantial reorganizations, and such was the
case with the new Lied Library. Believing that a
new building and the retirements of two senior
library administrators provided an opportunity
to restructure the organization for the future,
the new dean of libraries initiated broad
discussions with groups throughout the library
about desirable administrative structures. The
dean had attended an OCLC Institute on
knowledge management and felt that this
approach made a lot of sense in looking toward
the future. He believed that organizational
changes associated with new buildings should
be implemented prior to occupancy, so that the
stress of changing organizational relationships is
over prior to the stress that accompanies a move
to a new facility. In the summer of 1999, a year
before the new building was intended to be
occupied, several significant organizational
changes were put into place, including the
transformation of Technical Services into a
``new'' division called Knowledge Access
Management (KAM). The major components
of this transformation were:
.Acquisitions was renamed Materials
Ordering and Receiving (MOR) and was
organizationally moved from the Technical
Services Division to the ``new'' Collection
Development and Management Division.
.Systems, which had been an independent
office reporting directly to the dean, was
moved into the new KAM Division,
including the vacant library's Web site
administrator position.
.Cataloging remained in the new division
with an understanding that its role would
increasingly move from dealing with print
materials to dealing with digital materials,
and that the name of the department would
at some point in the future change to likely
include the word ``metadata'' (as this article
is going to press, the library is changing the
name of the Cataloging Department to
Bibliographic and Metadata Services
Department).
.A third component of KAM was
conceptualized to include ``things digital''.
``Things digital'' could include Web
initiatives, digitization project initiatives,
digital publishing initiatives in conjunction
with teaching/research faculty, etc. This
The authors
Brad Eden (beden@ccmail.nevada.edu) is Head,
Bibliographic and Metadata Services and
Kenneth J. Bierman (bierman@unlv.edu) is Director,
Knowledge Access Management Division, both at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Keywords
Information, Access control, Management, Cataloguing,
Internet
Abstract
Examines a major departmental reorganization within
UNLV's Lied Library, using the concept of knowledge access
management as its basis. The establishment of the Knowl-
edge Access Management (KAM) Division, comprising the
Cataloging Department, the Systems Department, and the
Web Maintenance/Digital Projects Unit, is discussed. The
Cataloging Department's strategic vision is examined, along
with an extensive description of the redesign of the new Lied
Library's Web site.
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DOI 10.1108/07378830210420717
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