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• Cataloging conversation at Library 2.0 Gang

  
  Cataloging Futures — Authority: 111
  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.
  3 days ago

• Social Tags Complement the Learning Resource Metadata, a Finnish Researcher Finds Out

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 658
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• The New York Times and Its 30,000 Tags (You Can Call Them Subject Headings)

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 658
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Flexible Album Studio

  
  Most recent windows software from SWDB.net — Authority: 154
  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.
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Learn About and Tryout OpenCalais (a Free Service from Thomson Reuters)

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 658
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Bibliographic control webinar Q&A

  
  Cataloging Futures — Authority: 111
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Cataloging Distribution Service of the Library of Congress Releases Cataloger’s Desktop 3.0

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 658
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• October in the Archives

  
  Connecticut Historical Society Library — Authority: 107
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Calling all Catalogers!

  
  SLA Information Technology Division Blog — Authority: 92
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• USPS “No 2010 Rate Increase”: The Loophole and a Call to Action

  
  The Gilbert Direct Marketing Blog — Authority: 113
  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.
  1 week ago

• Dear Mr. Postmaster General, you’ve started a trend… but…

  
  The Gilbert Direct Marketing Blog — Authority: 113
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• New LC future of cataloging reports

  
  Cataloging Futures — Authority: 111
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Webinar: RDA and OCLC

  
  Professional Development — Authority: 121
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Just Released by Library of Congress: Reports on Bibliographic Record Production

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 658
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• What library cataloging on the Web might look like

  
  Cataloging Futures — Authority: 111
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• James Weinheimers catalog and cataloging blog

  
  Cataloging Futures — Authority: 111
  One of the most prolific and interesting voices on the electronic discussion lists is James Weinheimer (Im sure you know that already). So, I was glad to find that James is using a blog as a brain dump for his AUTOCAT and NGC4LIB listserv posts. From the first post of his First thus blog : I have posted so ...
  3 weeks ago

• Inspiration Library

  
  Most recent windows software from SWDB.net — Authority: 154
  
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• Secretary of the Armed Forces gets PhD at age 89

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 128
  Last week I cataloged a PhD thesis by the former Secretary of the Armed Forces (under president Ronald Reagan), Verne Orr , entitled:   Developing strategic weaponry and the political process : the B1-B bomber from drawing board to flight   The thesis is dated 2005, which means Orr ...
  3 weeks ago

• What Is The Best Cataloging Software To Manage Movies?

  
  Laptop,Notebook,Computer Gadget,Cheap Computer parts — Authority: 155
  I have over 300 movies and growing strong, so I need a way to manage them all (preferrably one that monitors the folder for new movies). I’ve downloaded a few applications: MovieTrack, All My Movies, Movienizer etc.. Have any of you guys/gals tried out something like this? What is the best one you’ve found? ...
  3 weeks ago

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