Library Cataloging
The Enduring Values of Librarianship July 14, 2004 8 AM to 9 AM PacificJoin award-winning author Michael Gorman (ALA President 2005-2006) for an exploration of "The Enduring Values of Librarianship," a presentation based on his book, Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century, which received the 2001 Highsmith Award for the best book on librarianship.Michael Gorman will explore the meaning of "values" and their applicability to libraries in an age of technological and societal change. He will discuss the definition of values and the way in which they can be used to obtain positive results in daily work, planning, and assessment. He will also discuss the "library as place." His analysis, based on the study of many library-related and other books and writings, led him to conclude that the eight core values of librarianship are: Stewardship, Service, Intellectual freedom, Rationalism, Literacy and learning, Equity of access, Privacy, and Democracy.Registration is required.
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Each year the Texas Library Association recognizes contributions and excellence in our profession through the TLA Awards. TLA depends on its members to identify those individuals, organizations, and projects most worthy of recognition for having advanced...
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- Web Page Metadata
Google has released a study of metadata use in the pages they spider. They point out the most used ones and the most common errors.The Dublin Core people can take some comfort from the fact that although their keywords didn't appear in the top ten...
- Spelling Catalog
Catalog or Catalogue?: Examining a Library Dilemma by Beall, Jeffrey (2004).The variant spellings catalog and catalogue create problems for librarianship by causing confusion, hindering research, and betraying the standardization the profession values....
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Library Cataloging
Free Dynix Institute Web Seminars
The Enduring Values of Librarianship July 14, 2004 8 AM to 9 AM PacificJoin award-winning author Michael Gorman (ALA President 2005-2006) for an exploration of "The Enduring Values of Librarianship," a presentation based on his book, Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century, which received the 2001 Highsmith Award for the best book on librarianship.Michael Gorman will explore the meaning of "values" and their applicability to libraries in an age of technological and societal change. He will discuss the definition of values and the way in which they can be used to obtain positive results in daily work, planning, and assessment. He will also discuss the "library as place." His analysis, based on the study of many library-related and other books and writings, led him to conclude that the eight core values of librarianship are: Stewardship, Service, Intellectual freedom, Rationalism, Literacy and learning, Equity of access, Privacy, and Democracy.Registration is required.
- Texas Librarians
Each year the Texas Library Association recognizes contributions and excellence in our profession through the TLA Awards. TLA depends on its members to identify those individuals, organizations, and projects most worthy of recognition for having advanced...
- Metadata Tools For Institutional Repositories
Nichols, David M. and Paynter, Gordon W. and Chan, Chu-Hsiang and Bainbridge, David and McKay, Dana and Twidale, Michael B. and Blandford, Ann (2008) Metadata tools for institutional repositories.Current institutional repository software provides few...
- Web Page Metadata
Google has released a study of metadata use in the pages they spider. They point out the most used ones and the most common errors.The Dublin Core people can take some comfort from the fact that although their keywords didn't appear in the top ten...
- Spelling Catalog
Catalog or Catalogue?: Examining a Library Dilemma by Beall, Jeffrey (2004).The variant spellings catalog and catalogue create problems for librarianship by causing confusion, hindering research, and betraying the standardization the profession values....
- Michael Gorman
The Library Shall Endure A Conversation with Michael Gorman. Gorman discusses technology, the place of the book in Western civilization and academic publishing. Seen on the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog....