Areas of Responsibility: Coordinates and manages cataloging projects; coordinates and prioritizes training and professional development for cataloging; catalogs materials.
Biography:
Born naked, illiterate, and unable to care for himself, Mike has largely overcome these obstacles and joined the University of Akron faculty in 2016. Before that he taught philosophy courses at Kent State University and Lakeland Community College, worked as a cataloger for John Carroll University, as a substitute librarian for Akron Public Library, and most recently as Senior Catalog Librarian for the Cleveland Public Library.
Education:
MLIS, Kent State University, 2001
MA, Philosophy, Kent State University, 1996
BA, Philosophy, University of Toledo, 1994
Published Works: -
2023
Presents several use-cases where MarcEdit is used to analyze and enhance metadata in the form of MARC bibliographic and authority records. MarcEditor, MarcMerge, and the MarcEdit tools for validating headings, adding identifier links, and exporting tab-delimited text files from MARC files are demonstrated. At the invitation of The Library Administrators Council of Northern...
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2023
System migration is inevitable. But we don鈥檛 have to meet it with despair or resignation! Technical services can and should be involved in the process from the beginning 鈥� before the migration is even a twinkle in your administrators鈥� eyes. OhioLINK is currently reviewing proposals from various...
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2022
By Mike Monaco; illustrated by Heather Ford. Fantasy Wargaming (FW) was published in the early days of fantasy role-playing games as an alternative to the dominant game, Dungeons & Dragons. Because the book was published by a mainstream publishing house (Patrick Stephens Ltd in the UK; Stein & Day in the USA), it had distribution through channels unavailable to...
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2022
Have you been hearing about MarcEdit and wondering if it's something you should know about? This session will take you through a tour of the MarcEdit program to give you an idea of what you can do with it. This will be a basic overview for those who are not using MarcEdit, or only using it for one kind of task, and wonder if there is more they could do with it.
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2022
Summary of the keynotes and breakout sessions of the 2021 conference of the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians.
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2021
What is a MARC record, and more importantly, what is a good MARC record? Whether you鈥檙e vetting vendor-supplied records, copy cataloging, or creating original records, you will get something...
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2021
The COVID-19 pandemic was a trying time for everyone with tragic losses.
This panel of technical services librarians will share lessons learned from working through the pandemic and discuss how their work adapted to going partly or wholly remote and providing safe and flexible access to library content and services. The panelists...
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2021
Technical Services (TS) can seem mysterious and esoteric from the outside, and this becomes a real liability when we need the outsiders to understand why our work is vital 鈥� especially in these times when funding is tighter and everything is 鈥渙n the table.鈥� In this webinar we鈥檒l look at ways you as a TS librarian can...
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2020
A workshop on Regular Expressions for librarians.
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2020
Chapter of The Academic Librarian in the Digital Age: Essays on Changing Roles and Responsibilities. Edited by Thomas Diamond. McFarland, 2020
