Staffing support for four (4) full-time equivalent (FTE) Tender

• Country: USA
• Summary: Staffing support for four (4) full-time equivalent (FTE) Cataloging/Metadata Librarians to assist with metadata identification, metadata entry, quality control, record cleanup and other various metada...
• UST Ref No: 111989766
• Deadline: 06 Jan 2025
• Financier: Self Financed
• Purchaser Ownership: Government
• Tender Value: Refer Document
• Notice Type: Tender
• Document Ref. No.: 040ADV-25-Q-0003
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• Description:
• Staffing support for four (4) full-time equivalent (FTE) Cataloging/Metadata Librarians to assist with metadata identification, metadata entry, quality control, record cleanup and other various metadata related activities in Library
  Description
  Statement of Work
  Background
  The GPO Historic Shelflist is the U.S. Government Publishing Office's (GPO) historic card catalog covering U.S. Government documents from the 1800s to October 1992. It contains the following:
  Over one million 3x5 cards arranged in Superintendent of Documents (SuDoc) order. Bibliographic information for U.S. Government documents of various types from all three branches of the Government including monographs, multipart records, maps, continuing resources (serials and integrating resources), microfiche, and posters. Cards representing documents that were distributed to libraries in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and documents that were not distributed but required by the Cataloging and Indexing (C&I) Program, as required by U.S.C. Title 44. An estimated 455,000 Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) cards that were produced by GPO through OCLC beginning in July 1976; and An extensive collection of bibliographic information, but not a complete inventory of publications distributed through the FDLP.
  Since 2010 GPO has been converting historic shelflist cards to MARC (Machine-Readable Cataloging) 21 records which represent the publications identified as part of the FDLP or the C&I Program. These records are accessible and available to the public via the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP), and OCLC-s bibliographic utility, Connexion. As of November 2023, there are 224,990 historic shelflist records available through the CGP. These records can be identified by conducting a search for wcat=historic shelflist using the Expert search. The CGP also contains a separate catalog of just historic shelflist records.
  Objectives
  The contractor shall ensure t...
• Documents:

 Tender Notice

040ADV-25-Q-0003_0_US.pdf