Here are a couple of swell ideas about tagging the library catalog. The first generates tags based upon subject headings from the catalog by using a particular table in the db. http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/127/ and then there are user contributed tags:http://tags.library.upenn.edu/ It seems that ajax is the magic.
http://www.libx.org/ LibX is a Firefox extension that provides direct access to your library’s resources.LibX is an open source framework from which editions for specific libraries can be built. …and here is what Ga State is doing with it…. Pretty cool, eh?http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/index.asp?view=details&ID=9558&typeID=1
ok, I know I’ve mentioned this one already, but for those of you who are interested in the typos group, the link is here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libtypos-L/ and here’s a sample of possible typos:Adadem* ; Bpres* ; Distrub* ; Everday ; Intergrat* ;Ot-the ; Portuges* ; Psued* the * of course is for truncation, so that you retrieve all misspellings within the
everything you would want to do know about barcodes and then some:http://www.barcodeart.com/links/coderef/barcode_resources.htmlhttp://www.barcodeart.com/front_page.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN become a librarian (and a distance ed comparison)http://www.becomealibrarian.org/DistanceEdComparison.htm
http://www.mlaforum.org/volumeV/issue1/article2.htm very good examples and a good overview.
and just in case you can’t get enough of that hot topic in cataloging land (aka FRBR), here is the blogFRBR thanks to KR for the link.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libtypos-L/ now really, you know you want to know. 😉 and just in case you can’t get enough of this kind of stuff:a whole website about library catalog typos:
behind the times, baby Friday I went to this conference where the keynote speaker (Dr. Maddeus) essentially said that all of the folks in the audience were out of the loop and if we didn’t get with the technology we were going to miss the boat (!!). Anyhow, he started out the presentation with some very over the top Bill-n-Ted
a list of what katrina affected libraries need (hint, it’s not always books!)http://www.ala.org/ala/cro/katrina/katrinafinancialdonation.htm
ok, this is kind of cool.http://www.meca.edu/Meca_Galleries/Altered_Book.aspx