I was digging around in my webspace and found this brief overview of cataloging. This was created for an introductory technical services class for the Gwinnett school medial library program. Cataloging basics View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: basics training)
Hopefully, some of my fellow metadata “moonlighters” will see this survey also. ————To *all catalogers* (with or without MLS) in academic libraries: SURVEY: Integrating Non-MARC Metadata Production into the Duties of TraditionalCatalogers. You are invited to participate in a brief national, online survey. The objective of this survey is to research the national trends in the integration of Non-MARC metadata
Brief and interesting post @ RSS4Lib about projects to tag various library catalogs, and the relevance of lesser used tags. No mention of PennTags, but there is a brief mention of MTags from the University of Michigan. The real value of tagging is like that of a library: it’s the collections, the constructed universe of things that someone (a librarian,
Collocate and Disambiguate: Currents in authority control and authority data, a new blog on authority control. It seems to be off to a good start (and I love the name!)
Build the Open Shelves Classification Description: I hereby invite you to join the Open Shelves Classification (OSC), a free, “humble,” modern, open-source, crowd-sourced replacement for the Dewey Decimal System. —from LibraryThing. You can follow its progress or contribute to its effort here
If you’ve not heard of the openlibrary.org initiative, the idea is “one web pagefor every book ever published.” A pretty noble undertaking….Anyhow, news is that have now have a total of 13.4 million books,with about 18 million more records to go.Of course quantity and quality are not the same. ;-DAs for where these records are coming from, they have startedmerging
Link: http://liswire.com/node/63 Excerpt:OCLC and Google Inc. have signed an agreement to exchange data that will facilitate the discovery of library collections through Google search services. Under terms of the agreement, OCLC member libraries participating in the Google Book Search™ program, which makes the full text of more than one million books searchable, may share their WorldCat-derived MARC records with Google
Kind of old news at this point, but it has been floating around in my inbox. /begin—The Library of Congress is pleased to announce “LCCN Permalink” — a new persistent URL service for creating links to bibliographic records in the Library of Congress Online Catalog using the Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN). LCCN Permalink is a convenient way to
I finally got around to reading the first issue of the Code4Lib journal. Of interest to those interested in library catalogs, metadata, etc. is the article, Facet-Based Search and Navigation With LCSH: Problems and Opportunities As a person who uses LCSH, I completely understand some of the frustrations in wrangling with it. Although LCSH is dynamic with revisions and updates,
427 A.D.The Library at Alexandria decides to contract out its annual weeding project; Vandal hordes are the lowest bidder. http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~murrizol/ts_history/tshist.htm