{"id":896,"date":"2023-11-22T11:15:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/signalboost\/?p=896"},"modified":"2023-12-19T13:52:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T18:52:53","slug":"zhuo-pan-resident-librarian-for-resource-description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/signalboost\/2023\/11\/22\/zhuo-pan-resident-librarian-for-resource-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhuo Pan, Resident Librarian for Resource Description"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collections Services was pleased to welcome Zhuo Pan (\u6f58\u502c, P\u0101n Zhu\u014d) on August<\/span> 14, 2023 as Resident Librarian for Resource Description.\u00a0 It has been a busy and engaging three months for Zhuo and the Resource Description Department and we are glad Zhuo was here to share them with us.\u00a0 Zhuo received his Master of Library and Information Science at the University of Washington earlier this year, where he also served as a Library Data Specialist in the UW Libraries.\u00a0 Zhuo received his Bachelor of Library Science from Wuhan University.\u00a0 Though new to Duke in Durham, Zhuo is returning to the wider Duke University community.\u00a0 He worked at Duke Kunshan University Library, both as an intern and as Library Assistant for Technical Services.\u00a0\u00a0 In his current position, Zhuo forms one-half of the inaugural cohort of DUL\u2019s Residency Program<\/a>, which seeks to enable recent graduates of an MLIS or related graduate program to gain experience in a highly specialized area of librarianship.<\/p>\n

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Book cover showcasing figurative art with beautiful fabrics and flowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In his position as Resident Librarian, Zhuo describes materials to make discovery possible through the\u00a0Duke University Libraries Catalog<\/a>.\u00a0 His work also contributes new and improved records to WorldCat<\/a>, which is a catalog of library resources from all parts of the world.\u00a0 Because catalogers must learn to use subject knowledge across a variety of disciplines and to apply complex international standards when creating catalog entries, gaining expertise is a long-term process and hinges on training and mentoring.\u00a0 Zhuo brings to his current position experience both with hands-on cataloging at Duke Kunshan University Library, as well as experience with the international set of elements and guidelines for creating metadata for library resources from his position at UW libraries.\u00a0 It has been gratifying to build on Zhuo\u2019s knowledge and experience by working to describe books awaiting description.\u00a0 During his first three months, Zhuo acquainted himself with internal workflows, policies, and the tools and documentation that support these.\u00a0 He also spent significant time assessing and categorizing materials in the Chinese language cataloging queue.\u00a0 This facilitated a training strategy focused on specific types of description, starting with literature, then transitioning to comics and graphic novels, and moving onto local history.\u00a0 For a snapshot of Chinese language books cataloged in the last 3 months<\/a>, check the catalog. Zhuo provided description for over half of new titles added during this period. The Monograph Acquisitions department, where books with records that are complete in WorldCat at the time of receipt are processed, provided description for the remaining\u00a0 portion.<\/p>\n

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This graphically eye-catching cover needs to be cut open (carefully!) in order for the book to be described.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most recently, Zhuo has worked on books about art and photography.\u00a0 This is an especially complicated area of description with many special requirements for noting creators and subjects associated with artistic works.\u00a0 In addition, art and photography books often reflect their discipline, meaning they get artsy with how the physical book is presented.\u00a0 This adds an extra layer of challenge to describing the physical resource.\u00a0 Zhuo has come across books that are portfolios with loose plates of images, books with pages that fold out to create larger-format reproductions of photos, and even a book that is sealed in its entirety and needs to be carefully cut open before he can describe it.\u00a0 Following are some photos of recent art books that Zhuo has encountered.\u00a0 I particularly enjoyed working on the book that included parallel texts in Chinese and Russian languages with Zhuo since we each got to use our particular linguistic strengths to describe it.\u00a0 This partnership is just one example of the myriad ways that original catalogers constantly work together to use combined expertise in resource description.\u00a0 Here is looking forward to many years of working with Zhuo to provide timely and inclusive description of library collections.<\/p>\n

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Parallel Chinese and Russian edition of the
photographic works of V.V. Mikosha.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Collections Services was pleased to welcome Zhuo Pan (\u6f58\u502c, P\u0101n Zhu\u014d) on August 14, 2023 as Resident Librarian for Resource Description.\u00a0 It has been a busy and engaging three months for Zhuo and the Resource Description Department and we are glad Zhuo was here to share them with us.\u00a0 Zhuo received his Master of Library … Continue reading Zhuo Pan, Resident Librarian for Resource Description<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operations","category-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/signalboost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/signalboost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/signalboost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/signalboost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/signalboost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/signalboost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/signalboost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/signalboost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/signalboost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/signalboost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}