BEOnline+ Project Details
BEOnline+ began in 1996 as a
pilot project undertaken by the Cataloging Directorate's
Bibliographic Enrichment Advisory Team (BEAT) to explore
means of access and bibliographic control for remote
Internet resources of reference value. Originally named
BEOnline (Business and Economics Online), it was
intended to serve as both a model and a catalyst for
developing approaches to meet the challenges of
identifying, selecting, and providing both bibliographic
and direct access to electronic works that are remotely
available on the World Wide Web.
Beginning in January 2000 the project was renamed
BEOnline+ (BEOnline Plus), reflecting the
expansion of the project from its inital focus on business
and economics related resources to include resources of
reference value in other areas of the humanities and social
sciences. At the same time, the project began making use of
the functionality of the Cooperative Online Resource
Catalog, (now a part of Connexion), developed
by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), to select and
catalog those resources included in the BEOnline+
project. In the fall of 2000 the success of the project led
to its move from the status of a BEAT pilot project to its
incorporation into the regular selection and cataloging
workflows of the Library of Congress. During the pilot
phase of the project approximately 300 business and
economics resources were selected and cataloged.
Current members of the Library of
Congress BEOnline+ Team include:
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Sue Vita, Chief, Special Materials Cataloging Division
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John Byrum, Chief, Regional and Cooperative Cataloging
Division
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Allene Hayes, BEOnline+ Project Leader; Team
Leader, Computer Files and Microform Team, Special
Materials Cataloging Division
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Victoria Behrens, Automation Operations Coordinator,
Special Materials Cataloging Division
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Barbara Conaty, Trainer, Technical Processing and
Automation Instruction Office
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Jan Herd, Business Reference Librarian, Science,
Technology and Business Division
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Bruce Knarr, South Asia Team Leader, Regional and
Cooperative Cataloging Division
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Carolyn Larson, BEOnline+ Webmaster; Business
Reference Librarian, Science, Technology and Business
Division
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David Reser, Policy Specialist, Cataloging Policy Support
Office
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Regina Reynolds, Head, National Serials Data Program,
Serial Record Division
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David Williamson, Cataloging Automation Specialist,
Cataloging Directorate
Comments on the project are welcome and should be emailed
to
Allene Hayes, Project Leader, ahay@loc.gov
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