2015 Charleston Library Conference

As ebooks become an increasingly large part of our collection, the NCSU Libraries Acquisition and Discovery Department created an ebook reconciliation database to ensure that all of our purchased content is available in the ILS and throughout the Libraries discovery layers. This tool compares vendor title lists against ILS metadata in order to identify missing titles and generate reports.

The session will: discuss what prompted the development of the database; present the ebook data flow in NCSU Libraries and ebook reconciliation workflows designed based on the data flow; report on our approach on how to collect ebook title lists, normalize metadata and identify matching point for the reconciliation; present the most common ebooks issues found in the reconciliation process, discuss the causes and solutions for these issues; and analyze the issue data and identify patterns.

Attendees will learn how to design a similar tool and associated workflows in order to manage their own ebook collections.