Cataloging at a Distance: Capturing Surrogate Images for Remote Catalogers

Metadata operations in libraries aren’t public-facing. They generally aren’t high-profile. But organizing information is at the heart of librarianship, and cataloging makes access possible.

Creating cataloging surrogates can empower a library’s metadata team to streamline workflows, to operate with greater flexibility, to cultivate a network of language, format, and subject expertise, and ultimately, to increase access to collections.

In this webinar, Jake Bastian, vice president of collection management services at Backstage Library Works, explores the practice of creating and working with cataloging surrogates, the reasons for adopting this tool, and how to integrate surrogates into your cataloging workflows.