Event Type: Webinar Date: 8/25/2010Start Time: 2:00 PM End Time: 4:00 PM Description: WebJunction is hosting a two-hour symposium that will feature four presentations on current trends and practical approaches to library digitization and preservation projects. Our guest panelists will address: Designing a digital preservation system using a framework that includes all stakeholders, from library administrators to archivists to IT
Contact: Megan Humphrey mhumphrey@ala.orgLibrary supporters encouraged to nominate librarians for national I Love My Librarian AwardNEW YORK * Nominations are now open for the 2010 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award.The award invites library users nationwide to recognize the accomplishments of librarians in public, school, college, community college and university libraries for their efforts
Just passing the word along…Georgia Library Association News blog, http://glanews.blogspot.com/ is seeking news items and announcements. Email georgialibraryassociation@gmail.com
Library staff including me and Classics Department staff, faculty, and students cataloged the Classics Department Reading Collection. The end result of this highly collaborative and volunteer project was completion of cataloging/adding records for over 2000 titles using the online cataloging/collection management tool, LibraryThing.
Couple of training programs that came across my desk today (also, don’t forget webjunction and Lyrasis for training…) Many of my presentations and training resources are located at http://www.slideshare.net/robinfay/ For those attending GOLD/GALILEO friday, see you there… ONLINE LIBRARY ASSISTANT TRAINING PROGRAM Rutgers University is accepting applications for its Fall 2010 program for paraprofessional at academic and research libraries. The
Lots of resources related to the recent lawsuit against OCLC including recent articles, blog postings, procedural court docs. (from my twitter stream) “The suit alleges that OCLC, a purported non-profit with a membership of 72,000 libraries worldwide, is unlawfully monopolizing the markets for cataloging services, interlibrary lending, and bibliographic data, and attempting to monopolize the market for integrated library systems,
Sounds interesting…————————-Summarizing from an email:Karen Snow is a Ph.D. Candidate in Information Science in the College of Information at the University of North Texas who is collecting data for her dissertation “A Study of the Perception of Cataloging Quality Among Catalogers in Academic Libraries.” This study addresses the ambiguous nature of “quality” in cataloging and the difficulties in assessing what
My friend & colleague Beth did this, super job!
my coworkers did an awesome job on this video…
Okay, so some of you will see this elsewhere, but here is Cataloging’s entry into the “silly” video for the staff appreciation week. and where the bits come from (previous years…) First one is one of my movies; the others are not, but permish to share.