MarcEdit task lists and vendor-supplied metadata : revisiting the supplier-vendor relationship at the University of Leeds

Like all other academic libraries, the University of Leeds needed to hugely increase our electronic provision after the first Covid lockdown in March 2020. Most of the pressure was on providing e-textbooks and e-books, but there were also many modules that suddenly needed access to streaming video. One of these streaming video suppliers was the British Film Institute, who launched a new Institutional Subscription offer during lockdown, but could not provide records. This provided an opportunity for Leeds’ Metadata and Discovery team to develop a process of automated record creation using MarcEdit templates and task lists and provide those records to the subscribing community at no increased cost, whilst receiving a discount on our own subscription.