Library Cataloging
MIT has a great feature on their catalog, one that should be on many of ours, thanking the donor. Donations are an important part of many of our institutions' budgets. Encouraging more makes sense. Why not use the catalog to bring the importance of donated materials to folks attention? Why not give recognition in a public space to our supporters? This is the first time I've seen this. Maybe it is more common than I think.To see an example go to MIT, search for Web of Science, In the set of icons under "More" at the far right, one is a gift box icon. Click on it to see the thank you message. A post by Ellen Finnie Duranceau to ERIL-L brought this to my attention.
OPAC
- Christmas Metadata
What is metadata? A Christmas themed exploration by Bonnie Swoger appears as a recent Scientific American weblog post. Cute. I think we can agree that Santa would use sound data management practices, including the creation and use of proper metadata,...
- Searching The Opac Using Im
Google Talk IM bot to search the AADL catalog describes a tool for a group to use to search the catalog.Adding a new library is variously easy or difficult depending on whether your library system has a programmer-friendly way to display search results....
- Subject Access
Here is a field that was brought to my attention by the talk by Bill Moen at Access 2005, 656. "An index term that is descriptive of the occupation reflected in the contents of the described materials." I've never used this. Not many folks have, it...
- Trackbacks
So arXive now has trackbacks. I'm wondering what it would take to provide trackbacks in our catalogs. Would links like that to individual bibliographic records be useful? There is Freetag, an open-source tool, that allows tagging in a MySQL database....
- Marc
On the OLAC list there has been a discussion on the use of realtor terms. I wrote that they were valid in field 100 but could not imagine when they might be used there. I'm sure I've never seen it.Well, it seems there is someone who has a use...
Library Cataloging
Giving Thanks
MIT has a great feature on their catalog, one that should be on many of ours, thanking the donor. Donations are an important part of many of our institutions' budgets. Encouraging more makes sense. Why not use the catalog to bring the importance of donated materials to folks attention? Why not give recognition in a public space to our supporters? This is the first time I've seen this. Maybe it is more common than I think.To see an example go to MIT, search for Web of Science, In the set of icons under "More" at the far right, one is a gift box icon. Click on it to see the thank you message. A post by Ellen Finnie Duranceau to ERIL-L brought this to my attention.
OPAC
- Christmas Metadata
What is metadata? A Christmas themed exploration by Bonnie Swoger appears as a recent Scientific American weblog post. Cute. I think we can agree that Santa would use sound data management practices, including the creation and use of proper metadata,...
- Searching The Opac Using Im
Google Talk IM bot to search the AADL catalog describes a tool for a group to use to search the catalog.Adding a new library is variously easy or difficult depending on whether your library system has a programmer-friendly way to display search results....
- Subject Access
Here is a field that was brought to my attention by the talk by Bill Moen at Access 2005, 656. "An index term that is descriptive of the occupation reflected in the contents of the described materials." I've never used this. Not many folks have, it...
- Trackbacks
So arXive now has trackbacks. I'm wondering what it would take to provide trackbacks in our catalogs. Would links like that to individual bibliographic records be useful? There is Freetag, an open-source tool, that allows tagging in a MySQL database....
- Marc
On the OLAC list there has been a discussion on the use of realtor terms. I wrote that they were valid in field 100 but could not imagine when they might be used there. I'm sure I've never seen it.Well, it seems there is someone who has a use...