ILS Migration as Enhancement Opportunity: How a Local History Department Leveraged a Digital Repository Migration into a Better User Experience

Room 130 - McDonald Library

• Emily B. Kean, Former Digital Services Librarian, Boone County Public Library; Current Research and Education Librarian, University of Cincinnati Libraries
• Bridget B. Striker, Local History Coordinator, Boone County Public Library
• Kaitlin M. Barber, Local History Librarian, Boone County Public Library
• Cara Yurkoswki, MLS Student and Local History Volunteer, Boone County Public Library

The Boone County Public Library Local History department has a highly utilized collection of over 14,000 digital assets. As part of the Library system’s ILS migration, the Local History department, in partnership with the Digital Services Librarian, used the impending MARC to Dublin Core data migration as an opportunity to restructure and enhance several of the metadata access points in the patron interface. This approach has allowed for a more robust user experience, where patrons can now search and filter with the newly-created metadata fields of Collection, Geographic Region, Record Type, and Repository, as well as the turnkey facets provided by the ILS vendor. Technical details of the process and rationale will be discussed, as well as end-user reception and future plans.