The small collection of non-fiction, biographical comics/graphic novels would integrate seamlessly into the current catalog. This additional collection would operate under the same current item description/metadata scheme and physical arrangement of items in the current catalog. The item descriptions would be descriptive metadata as described in J. Pomerantz’s Metadata: “the simplified representations of information objects must include data that will help you discover resources that you might find relevant” (p. 17). The metadata would be documented in a registry that would follow a NISO recommended practice and support interoperability throughout not only our institution, but any institution in our network by being “coherent, meaningful, and useful in global contexts beyond those

in which it was created” (NISO, 2007, p. 76).  

 

Throughout this small collection the descriptive metadata would follow the MARC 21 metadata scheme and include: title, author, edition, publisher, publication date, ISBNs, physical description, summary, Dewey Decimal Classification numbers and Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). The following are examples of what a simple record and a full MARC record would look like.

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As this small collection would have a large number of subjects to choose from, the metadata scheme would allow for users to enter keywords in a search box located at the top of the webpage to search for items. The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences states the perfect search: “would retrieve all the documents in the database that the user judges to be relevant (a + c) and would not retrieve any that he judges not to be relevant (b + d )” (Lancaster, F. W., 2017, p 3708). While this is difficult to achieve, young adults to adults would search with ease and be confident their queries would return high precision and high recall results. These users would would then find their items conveniently arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification numbers on the shelves.

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Resources:

Pomerantz, J. (2015). Chapter 1. Introduction. In: Metadata. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1-18.  http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_7937922 
 

Kennedy, M. R. (2008). Nine questions to guide you in choosing a metadata schema. Journal of Digital Information 9(1). 

 http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/226/205
 

NISO. (2007). A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. 
 3rd edition.  http://www.niso.org/sites/default/files/2017-08/framework3.pdf
 

Lancaster, F. W.  (2017). Precision and recall [ELIS classic]. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 4th ed.,

 3708-3713.

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Spiegelman, Art. Maus : a survivor's tale. (1997) [Book]. Retrieved from https://lccn.loc.gov/96032796