Library Cataloging
The Conference is over. Some excellent content and good presentations. The conference committee should be proud. Also a good group of attendees. Plenty to learn just talking to others between sessions. Some takeaways.
- Oclc Announces "quick Start" Version Of The Oclc Worldcat Local Service
OCLC is making a WoldCat Local available for free to First Search customers. Currently it is an OPAC replacement, however, plans are to add circulation, ERM, and other ILS functions. One effect of this would be to have the circulation records for dozens...
- Worldcat Local
WorldCat Local is up and running at the University of Washington.The search results include articles as well as more traditional catalog materials. It shows other local libraries with an item. It is possible to link to a search result. Facets along the...
- End Users
I've been listening to a talk Bill Moen gave at the TLA 2004 conference on my MP3 player. (TLA makes CDs of the conference with MP3 files of the talks available for a very reasonable sum.) In it he talks about our end users. Those are the folks walking...
- Wikis
At last, at Library Stuff, I've heard a good use for a Wiki on a library site. Pathfinders, or finding aids could benefit from corrections, annotations and additions from the public. This makes sense. Local experts or fans of a topic could very well...
- Conference
The Access 2003 Conference is coming up on Oct. 1 to 4 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Access is one of the premier technical conferences for libraries.The theme for this year's conference is "Extending Our Abilities", focusing on using technologies...
Library Cataloging
Electronic Resources and Libraries 2009
The Conference is over. Some excellent content and good presentations. The conference committee should be proud. Also a good group of attendees. Plenty to learn just talking to others between sessions. Some takeaways.
- Check into having our catalog hosted, Evergreen perhaps.OLE Project. SOA. It will be the backend, use Blacklight, whatever for the OPAC. Meant to integrate with other components, Shibbolith, LDAP, EDP, etc. Modular.Worldcat Local. Attempt to answer the question "What data should be at the network level and what at the local level?"Vicky Reich gave the most thought provoking talk. For many years we have been modeling our behavior on the business model. "Just in time, not just in case." Now looking at Circuit City, the auto industry, financial industry, realtor business it might not have been such a good idea. We could be next.Muse Single Search is working for someone. Only federated search that even had one happy person.LibGuides were mentioned several times. Have to investigate.Thought experiments: Tag clouds as a display. Give users the option to open some of their circ history for finding other similar readers. Enhancing digital texts.Use more than one pass of XSLT to get data in correct format. Share XSLT.What is it like to be a librarian? Its all about money and power.Link evaluator for FF from OCLC.Kill zombie budget items, those that fund the dead programs but continue on. One library cut entire paper reference collection.K. G. Schneider makes me proud to be a librarian.
- Oclc Announces "quick Start" Version Of The Oclc Worldcat Local Service
OCLC is making a WoldCat Local available for free to First Search customers. Currently it is an OPAC replacement, however, plans are to add circulation, ERM, and other ILS functions. One effect of this would be to have the circulation records for dozens...
- Worldcat Local
WorldCat Local is up and running at the University of Washington.The search results include articles as well as more traditional catalog materials. It shows other local libraries with an item. It is possible to link to a search result. Facets along the...
- End Users
I've been listening to a talk Bill Moen gave at the TLA 2004 conference on my MP3 player. (TLA makes CDs of the conference with MP3 files of the talks available for a very reasonable sum.) In it he talks about our end users. Those are the folks walking...
- Wikis
At last, at Library Stuff, I've heard a good use for a Wiki on a library site. Pathfinders, or finding aids could benefit from corrections, annotations and additions from the public. This makes sense. Local experts or fans of a topic could very well...
- Conference
The Access 2003 Conference is coming up on Oct. 1 to 4 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Access is one of the premier technical conferences for libraries.The theme for this year's conference is "Extending Our Abilities", focusing on using technologies...