Documentation
Digital Collections in Primo: Options and Insights (PDF) 2023
Guidelines for Addressing Bias in Archival Description and Catalog Records (PDF) 2021
MARC Records for Archives & Manuscripts: Best Practices (PDF) April 2020
Enhancing Unique Collections in the SILS: Issues and Source(s) Identification (PDF) Updated February 17, 2017
FY17 UCSILS group issues list (PDF) Updated September 2017
Overview
The Unique Materials in the SILS (UMSILS) standing group studies and responds to issues affecting unique materials in the Alliance’s Shared ILS (SILS). It examines and potentially revises best practices in consultation/collaboration with the Cataloguing Standing Group of the SCTS Team. The group studies, characterizes, and proposes solutions to the issues with physical and digital items represented in the SILS including, but not limited to, rare books, oral histories, newspapers, and digital objects. They will identify the primary challenges to functionality and discovery, including metadata practices, infrastructure requirements, and local vs. organization-wide system configuration.
Background and Context
This group continues the work of the Unique Collections in the SILS Working Group, whose charge was as follows:
Study and characterize the issues with physical items represented in the SILS with MARC records including, but not limited to, rare books, oral histories, and newspapers. Identified the primary challenges to functionality and discovery, including metadata practices, infrastructure requirements, and local vs. organization-wide system configuration.
The group proposed solutions to the issues that could be addressed organization-wide including, but not limited to, changes in metadata practices, infrastructure, or that need to be submitted to Ex Libris for resolution.
