This white paper written by Virginia Feher and I started out as a conversation about the changes brought about by automation within the UGA Libraries. Over the years, I have documented some of the changes in automation (including 5 migrations/conversions of the ILS – Library catalog!) through discussions with colleagues within the Libraries and outside. This article not only provides
Big News from LC regarding RDA implementation: As will be seen in the attached plan [on the website via the link below], we have determined that date to be March 31, 2013. LC’s partner national libraries (U.S.: National Agricultural Library and National Library of Medicine; and non-U.S.: British Library, Library & Archives Canada, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, and National Library of Australia)
Sooo… Facebook has already killed the historical profile accounts which were written about well… just about everywhere (Google Joe McDonald) although it seems like they also killed a potentially great PR and marketing campaign. “While McDonald and Lewis initially only had friends who were distant relatives, their lists of connections swelled from just over 100 each to more than 1,000.
for those who might be interested…———- ———-Live Webinar: How to Manage Growing Digital Content Needs Through Virtualization From New York to Oregon, Florida to Utah, and more states are passing legislation in an effort to move toward digital content in K-12 and higher education. As electronic media take center stage and textbooks become a thing of the past, K-20 educators
Video to be available at RDA Cafe on Facebook Presenters for Emory Theology Library (Emory was a RDA test participant), University of Georgia, GPLS (Georgia Public Library System) and UGA’s Law Library. Overview: Advantages of RDA – benefits to electronic reproductions in that there is no reproduction note, no GMD; benefits for theses & dissertations; granularity for increased searching Disadvantages
I’m finally getting around to sharing my final thoughts and notes on COMO 2011. The good: all of the sessions I attended or heard part of – great> excellent academic papers, Green Library presentation, PBCore presentation, RDA, WREK (when do I get to be on the radio?) seeing my fellow librarians and compadres from around the state the vendors had
One of the presentations I attended at COMO was a presentation on “Lost in the Stacks” the Library “Rock and Roll” Radio Show hosted at WREK. This show is on at Fridays at noon and if you can’t catch it then, you can hear the archives for 2 weeks (hopefully they can do podcasting one day). You can also check
Here is your chance to submit questions for an interview of the RDA Testers.
UGA Librarians at COMO. Building a Green Library: Lessons Learned from Three Georgia Academic LibrariesThree Georgia library directors, Gene Ruffin, Loren Pinkerman, and Bill Potter, will discuss the opportunities and challenges involved in building an environmentally sustainable or “green” building. Virginia Feher(UGA), Gene Ruffin, Bill Potter(UGA), Loren Pinkerman One Size Fits No One: Unique Embedded Librarian Programs in Georgia UniversitiesAcademic
Really interesting story about library artifacts, theft, and selling of materials… A 19th-century cabinet photo created by the Philadelphia photographer, Phillip Edward Chillman, was documented on the NYPL’s 1922 inventory of the Spalding Collection but, after an inventory was taken by the library in 1987, it was discovered missing along with another photograph of Reach. Both cabinet photos appear on the NYPL’s official “Missing