TDL member Texas A&M University Libraries recently completed a project to catalog an accumulated backlog of some 2,300 electronic theses and dissertations and to make them available in Texas A&M’s DSpace repository.
The team that worked on the cataloging project included Holly Mercer (Head of Digital Services and Scholarly Communications), Michael Bolton (Director of Digital Initiatives), Laura Hammons (Thesis Office Director), and Jeanette Ho (Coordinator of Cataloging), among others.
Among other things, the project team created a protocol for publishing ETDs into the online repository and created metadata records for the theses and dissertations that are available in the Libraries’ online catalog as well as WorldCat.