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Cataloging News


For some news in the cataloging community and good comments check out Lorcan Dempsey's weblog Always a good read. Today he covers Rethinking how we provide bibliographic services for the University of California and the new catalog at NSCU.

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- On Descript
When I started this weblog back in 2002 nobody was covering cataloging. There was AUTOCAT, great place for discussion. But no one place was acting as a news source. Now there are plenty of other place to keep current in cataloging, check Planet Cataloging...

- Re: Recommendation And Ranganathan
I hope everybody here is also reading Lorcan Dempsey's weblog. However, just in case there are some who don't, begin with the excellent post Recommendation and Ranganathan. I thought the description of the four types of metadata a very good place...

- Access 2005
Many talks from Access 2005 are available as MP3 files. Lots of good stuff here. I'll have to get to that conference at some point. Among the talks are:Introduction to METS by Jerome McdonoughSorting Out Social Classification: Folksonomies and Tagging...

- Wiki In Openworldcat
Seen on Lorcan Dempsey's weblog, always a good readWell, it has arrived! Wiki functionality has gone live in OpenWorldCat. Check out the details and reviews tab here, for example.We do not know how this will develop: we think it is really important...

- Pasadena City College
Welcome to the students from Pasadena City College, Library 105 "Cataloging Procedures in an Online Environment." I notice from the syllabus you are required to read this 'blog. Hope it is not too tedious.Now would be a good time to go into the aims...



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