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• Webcast: Richard Wallis Chats with OCLC’s Karen Calhoun About the Record Reuse Policy; New Competition; and the Blurring of Boundaries

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 671
  Richard Wallis writes I caught up with Vice president of OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services, Karen Calhoun, in the lobby of a hotel across the road from the iconic British Library building in London. Karen was preparing for her presentation at the 2009 OCLC Tech Forum to be held in the Library conference ...
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• Access Through Metadata: Library Group Tackles the Challenge

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 671
  From the Article: Perfect metadata is NOT required – good metadata IS useful. So say the resident metadata experts at the Library of Congress, who made this point very clearly at the recent National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program partners meeting. Consistent and rich metadata are ...
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• Allyson Carlyle announces 2010, the year of cataloging research

  
  Cataloging Futures — Authority: 112
  Unfortunately, I dont have a subscription to the excellent journal, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly . But found that the latest issue has a  new editorial by Allyson Carlyle freely available online .  Allyson Carlyle is Associate Professor and Chair of the Ph.D. Program at the University of ...
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• Introducing 5ft Shelf [guest post by George Palmer]

  
  The Book Lady's Blog — Authority: 490
  A few weeks ago, George Palmer of 5ft Shelf contacted me to tell me about this project, inspired by Dr. Charles Eliot’s claim tha t one could achieve a liberal arts education by reading for fifteen minutes per day from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf.  Building on this concept and ...
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• Cataloging conversation at Library 2.0 Gang

  
  Cataloging Futures — Authority: 112
  Dont miss the latest Library 2.0 Gang 11/09 podcast: The Cataloguing Services Landscape . Excellent discussion on a wide range of cataloging and metadata issues.
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• Social Tags Complement the Learning Resource Metadata, a Finnish Researcher Finds Out

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 671
  From the ACM TechNews Summary Social tagging can help people find educational resources in digital repositories that are filled with millions of learning materials, says Open University of the Netherlands PhD candidate Riina Vuorikari. She says that adding free, non-hierarchical keywords to the digital learning ...
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• The New York Times and Its 30,000 Tags (You Can Call Them Subject Headings)

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 671
  A few weeks ago we posted about a new prototype from the New York Times named “Custom Feeds.” It allows users, for free, to create “custom built” RSS feeds of NY Times content that make use of the actual tags (aka descriptors, subject headings) that humans use when meta-tagging (aka indexing). At the end ...
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• Flexible Album Studio

  
  Most recent windows software from SWDB.net — Authority: 453
  Flexible Album Studio is a brain-dead simple, eye-catching and fast creator of professional-looking web galleries for digital photographers. No HTML coding or image processing experience necessary whatsoever. Absolutely free, free download.
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• Brick and Click session 1 rough notes

  
  Into the Stacks — Authority: 408
  Cataloging and User Experience -What users want -info changing at umprecedented rate, but we’re not changing fast enough to keep up -OCLC 2003 enviro scan; info conusumer trends: self-sufficiency, seamlessness (liesure/work overlap) – libraries are not seamless! -2005 OCLC college student survey; satisfied ...
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• Learn About and Tryout OpenCalais (a Free Service from Thomson Reuters)

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 671
  OpenCalais (OC) is a free service that we first mentioned six months ago and have mentioned several times since. This post from June, 2009 mentions some of the organizations using the service from Thomson Reuters. In a nutshell, OpenCalais uses semantic technology and natural language processing to analyze text ...
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• Bibliographic control webinar Q&A

  
  Cataloging Futures — Authority: 112
  Interesting Q&A follow-up from last months NISO webinar: Bibliographic Control Alphabet Soup: AACR to RDA and Evolution of MARC . Barbara Tillett and Diane Hilmann weigh in on a variety of questions. Barbara Tillett: RDA is not a format. Its a set of cataloging instructions on the identifying characteristics ...
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• Cataloging Distribution Service of the Library of Congress Releases Cataloger’s Desktop 3.0

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 671
  Are you are a cataloger? (This might be of interest.) Do you know a cataloger? (Please share this post.) From the Announcement: Barbara Tillett, chief of the Library’s Policy and Standards Division, said “To help users make the most of the new product enhancements, the Library of Congress staff has been ...
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• October in the Archives

  
  Connecticut Historical Society Library — Authority: 104
  October was a busy month for the CHS manuscript catalogers. As part of our NHPRC grant funded project, we completed over 120 entries for the online catalog ! Here are some of the highlights. Three of the entries pertain to the Hartford Bridge Company (Account Book collection/Ms 32203,32205,32206) . CHS has a ...
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• Calling all Catalogers!

  
  SLA Information Technology Division Blog — Authority: 104
  The SLA Committee on Cataloging requests your assistance with a survey they are conducting.  The survey, which can be found online at this link , is designed to guage the cataloging work currently done by SLA members in their institutions.  The survey, which takes approximately 10 minutes to complete, collects ...
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• USPS “No 2010 Rate Increase”: The Loophole and a Call to Action

  
  The Gilbert Direct Marketing Blog — Authority: 116
  Just when I thought it was safe to believe in the U.S. Postal Service, I find out this lovely tidbit of information: Despite Postmaster General John Potters grand statement (or was it a grandstanding statement) that thered be no postal rate increase in 2010, theres a giant loophole.
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• Dear Mr. Postmaster General, you’ve started a trend… but…

  
  The Gilbert Direct Marketing Blog — Authority: 116
  A week ago the USPS Postmaster General sent out a memo stating there would be no postal increase for direct mailers in 2010. We must make our voice heard and hold their feet to the fire to keep the direct and catalog marketing business moving. Therefore I wrote the letter below to the USPS. I urge you to send in ...
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• New LC future of cataloging reports

  
  Cataloging Futures — Authority: 112
  Its been almost two years since the Library of Congress report, On the Record , was presented to the cataloging community. You may recall that LC established the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control to study the future of cataloging and LC role in it. (By the way, search the Cataloging Futures ...
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• Webinar: RDA and OCLC

  
  Professional Development — Authority: 116
  On Oct. 30, Leslie attended a webinar hosted by OCLC, detailing OCLC’s preparations for the soon-to-be-released new cataloging rules, RDA (Resource Description and Access), which will succeed AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules), the standard that has been in place for the last 30 or so years. A poll of webinar ...
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• Just Released by Library of Congress: Reports on Bibliographic Record Production

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 671
  From the News Release: The Library of Congress is releasing today the results of its analysis of the creation and distribution of bibliographic data in U.S. and Canadian libraries. The Library commissioned R2 Consulting LLC of Contoocook, N.H., to search and describe the current marketplace for cataloging records ...
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• What library cataloging on the Web might look like

  
  Cataloging Futures — Authority: 112
  Check out Alexander Johannesens post: On identity . Johannesen is a technologist who has experience working in a library. Here he shares his vision of how library cataloging could be done in the future: Let me exemplify with how I would like to see future library cataloging being done ; I have a resource of ...
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