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Cataloging Futures

The focus is the future of cataloging and metadata in libraries. The new cataloging code, RDA: Resource Description and Access, is a significant issue. The future of the MARC 21 format will also be explored. ILS/OPAC's future will be touch on also.

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  1. An important opportunity

    http://www.catalogingfutures.com/catalogingfutures/2008/05/an-important-op.html

    Last week on the cataloging lists, Barbara Tillett writes: As Chair of the IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code (IME ICC) I am pleased to invite comments from the worldwide library community on the final draft of the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles and its accompanying Glossary. …

    6 days ago
  2. Letter from Deanna Marcum on RDA

    http://www.catalogingfutures.com/catalogingfutures/2008/05/letter-from-dea.html

    A letter from Deanna Marcum was just posted to the AUTOCAT list. It provides the joint statement of the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the National Agricultural Library on Resource Description and Access. …

    10 days ago
  3. LC using new content standard for rare books: DCRM(B)

    http://www.catalogingfutures.com/catalogingfutures/2008/05/lc-using-new-co.html

    I'm very interested in rare books, having been exposed to the wonders of rare book cataloging when I was a fledgling cataloger (circa 1991). At that time, Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books had just been published. Now, its successor is available: Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books). …

    11 days ago
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    Planet Cataloging

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    http://catprinciples.pbwiki.com/ and view and/or download the Statement for your review; and please use the accompanying voting document for your response. [emphasis mine] You might want to take a look back to a post I wrote last year on the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles. I'm looking forward to reviewing and commenting on this important document before the June 30th deadline.

    6 days ago in Planet Cataloging · Authority: 11
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    引領 Semantics 發展的關鍵嗎? via HeyJude - The future of libraries http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/the-future-of-libraries/ Cataloging Futures - Essential reading: Metadata for digital libraries http://www.catalogingfutures.com/catalogingfutures/2008/04/essential-readi.html *** 《外科失樂園》志志看世界 - “帥氣”這檔子事 之貳 http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/surgeon-life/article?mid=12829

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    Pages About Contact Blogroll ACRL Insider ACRLog Blogwithoutalibrary.net Blyberg.net Cataloging Futures: A “work” in progress Darien Library Director’s Blog Digital Reference librarian.net LibrarianInBlack Library of Congress Blog Library Web Chick LibraryCrunch LibraryLaw Blog LISNews lo-fi librarian McMaster University Library

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    In case I forget to mention this tonight :)

    http://www.blogs.slis.ua.edu/slis/courses/ls590/spring2008/m...

    I just skimmed a recent (2008) article by Richard Gartner, Metadata for digital libraries: state of the art and future directions where he states that “the best established schema to deal with preservation metadata is undoubtedly PREMIS” (via Cataloging Futures)–I am sure that we will be hearing lots about PREMIS as we move into library careers, esp. those of us who will work with digital collections. 4. There sure is a lot of programming action that goes on

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    Panlibus

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    s Report is off the track in many of its major assumptions, assertions, and recommendations That’s a pretty strong statement, and what follows in 38 pages would do even Annoyed Librarian proud. Over on Cataloguing Futures, Christine Schwartz describes the report as a must-read, Karen Schneider comments How could I *not* love this report? arkham sums up my feelings better, commenting First, I ended up skipping a large amount of it, when it became abundantly clear

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    Library of Congress Subject Headings. Pre- vs. Post-Coordination and Related Issues. Report for Beacher Wiggins, Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access Directorate, Library Services, Library of Congress. Found at Cataloging Futures. Saturday, 22 Mar 2008 The León manifesto. (2007)., Knowledge Organization, 34(1), 6-8. by Mark at March 23, 2008 02:11 AM

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    Some things read this week, 16 - 22 March 2008

    http://marklindner.info/blog/2008/03/22/some-things-read-thi...

    Library of Congress Subject Headings. Pre- vs. Post-Coordination and Related Issues. Report for Beacher Wiggins, Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access Directorate, Library Services, Library of Congress. Found at Cataloging Futures. Saturday, 22 Mar 2008 The León manifesto. (2007)., Knowledge Organization, 34(1), 6-8.

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    Planet Cataloging

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    The Working Group's Report is off the track in many of its major assumptions, assertions, and recommendations That's a pretty strong statement, and what follows in 38 pages would do even Annoyed Librarian proud. Over on Cataloguing Futures, Christine Schwartz describes the report as a must-read, Karen Schneider comments How could I *not* love this report? arkham sums up my feelings better, commenting First, I ended up skipping a large amount of it, when it became abundantly clear

    55 days ago in Planet Cataloging · Authority: 11
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