Library Cataloging
Dressing the part... by Nelia C. Wurangian-Caan asks how can we make our catalogs more hip, and so attractive to users. Here are a few of my ideas for making our catalogs more hip.
- Open Worldcat
OCLC has decided to turn the Open WorldCat pilot into a program that will be an ongoing benefit for OCLC member libraries. The pilot has clearly demonstrated the value of making WorldCat records and library holdings available to the general public on...
- Library Elf
Here is another great idea, developed by someone other than the vendors. Library ELF is a way to keep track of all your library accounts in one place. It would be great for someone like me who has access to lots of libraries within a short drive. I have...
- Union Catalogs
Union Catalogs of the World at Info Connect is a listing, sorted by place, of union catalogs. They are also looking for submissions of catalogs they have missed to add to the listing.As long as the union catalogs being submitted, are in electronic format...
- A Patron's Viewpoint
Timothy Burke writes in his 'blog "Burn the Catalog."I?m to the point where I think we?d be better off to just utterly erase our existing academic catalogs and forget about backwards-compatibility, lock all the vendors and librarians and scholars...
- Rss
Steven at Library Stuff points to RSSlets - Functional RSS Feeds.My ultimate vision for RSSlet is a service that allows users to generate dynamic RSS feeds that actually do something functional from any web page. I'm a big believer in iterative and...
Library Cataloging
Hipper Catalogs
Dressing the part... by Nelia C. Wurangian-Caan asks how can we make our catalogs more hip, and so attractive to users. Here are a few of my ideas for making our catalogs more hip.
- RSS feed of most circulated books, books with most holds, etc. Dynamic updated info. Koha is planning to have this.Notify users of overdues, new arrivals via IM or SMS or e-mail or ....Recommendations: others who checked out this book also have checked out ....FRBR display would be useful. There is a Voyager system with this that I've yet to see.IR ports to beam catalog info to a PDA.
- Open Worldcat
OCLC has decided to turn the Open WorldCat pilot into a program that will be an ongoing benefit for OCLC member libraries. The pilot has clearly demonstrated the value of making WorldCat records and library holdings available to the general public on...
- Library Elf
Here is another great idea, developed by someone other than the vendors. Library ELF is a way to keep track of all your library accounts in one place. It would be great for someone like me who has access to lots of libraries within a short drive. I have...
- Union Catalogs
Union Catalogs of the World at Info Connect is a listing, sorted by place, of union catalogs. They are also looking for submissions of catalogs they have missed to add to the listing.As long as the union catalogs being submitted, are in electronic format...
- A Patron's Viewpoint
Timothy Burke writes in his 'blog "Burn the Catalog."I?m to the point where I think we?d be better off to just utterly erase our existing academic catalogs and forget about backwards-compatibility, lock all the vendors and librarians and scholars...
- Rss
Steven at Library Stuff points to RSSlets - Functional RSS Feeds.My ultimate vision for RSSlet is a service that allows users to generate dynamic RSS feeds that actually do something functional from any web page. I'm a big believer in iterative and...