This came across a few lists I’m on today and I thought it would be beneficial to some of you. Using the file that some Colorado Libraries have created you can import a batch of freely available ebook classics to your system. More info here: The Colorado Library Consortium created a project to clean up [...]
Oh no! What example will I use when I talk about tagging? This came across AUTOCAT yesterday: Subject Headings for Cooking and Cookbooks June 22, 2010 The Library of Congress issued the list of the new and revised subject headings for materials on cooking and cookbooks on June 22, 2010 (http://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/subject/weeklylists/). These new and revised [...]
Christine Schwartz pointed me to a post Dodie Gaudet titled Perpetual Beta & Bibliographic Records. Dodie makes some interesting points about how we should think of our bibliographic records, but I think she’s missing one step. First, let’s look at what Dodie says: So rather than thinking in terms of one person completing the perfect [...]
Stuart Yeates is awesome Okay – so I don’t know him – but this post makes me think he’s awesome: Card catalogs have a long tradition in librarianship, dating back, I’m told, to the book stock-take in the French revolution. Librarians understand card catalogs in a deep way that comes from generations of librarians having [...]
The Library of Congress has retained R2 Consulting, LLC to research and describe the US and Canadian “marketplace” for cataloging records and they have just posted a couple of surveys that need our input: If you are a librarian: Click here to take the library survey Once you have begun this survey, you can easily [...]
I have uploaded some video tutorials that I put together for ‡biblios.net to YouTube – check them out and learn how to catalog with ‡biblios.net. I’m going to try and embed the entire playlist here – so feel free to browse through the videos:
Fellow catalogers, I have been spending a lot of time these last few months working on getting a new web-based cataloging tool ready for you all. It’s finally time! I’d like to invite you to sign up for free and try out ‡biblios.net a community cataloging tool from LibLime. So, what the heck is it? [...]
Wondering what I’ve been up to at work lately? Well I’ve been swamped with getting ready for the ‡biblios.net beta test. ‡biblios.net is a subscription-based, hosted version of the open-source ‡biblios metadata editor (www.biblios.org) that LibLime released earlier this year. In addition to the editor, ‡biblios.net includes some extended community features such as integrated real-time [...]
I have to be honest- I’m terrified to even open this link …. The full draft of RDA is not now available for review. Why am I scared? Something that takes this long to finalize cojures up an image of an infinite switch (or if/else) block. For non-coders – I’m imagining a document that says [...]
Karen Coyle has a great post on her site where she calls for help on creating “An easy, online, social library catalog.” Why another cataloging tool? Karen has recently returned from Kosovo where many of the library don’t have catalogs and certainly don’t have the resources to run many of the affordable solutions out there. [...]
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