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Metadata and Discovery Unit

The Metadata and Discovery Unit is responsible for creating metadata to ensure description and discovery of the Library’s collections. Responsibilities of this unit include:

  • Analysing and creating descriptive metadata on the Library's books/ebooks, journals, and electronic resources
  • Creating and maintaining the Library records for library items by adding and updating MARC bibliographic records and holdings information
  • Creating and applying descriptions, subject terms and classification to records
  • Maintaining the quality of the data in the Library catalogue including authority control and building appropriate user reference structures
  • Creating original bibliographical records for all Irish legal deposit materials
  • Creating original records for contribution to the UK Shared Cataloguing Programme
  • Submitting records to the Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) and Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO)
  • Liaising with departments across the Library on the application of appropriate descriptive data to ensure discovery of collections