Library Cataloging
Metasearching
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is a new service offered by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission that allows users to easily discover and retrieve desired information from multiple library catalogs, databases, and other knowledge collections. Texans no longer need to use a separate interface for each individual library or database. At present, the Library of Texas searches through the catalogs of 63 public libraries, 26 academic libraries, and 40 TexShare commercial databases.
The databases are only available to registered users. However, searching multiple library catalogs is open to all.
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Tx Libraries Roi
This year the Texas Legislature meets, so this info may be useful. TSL&A has released the report Texas Public Libraries Return on Investment Study. Did you know that for every $1.00 invested in public libraries around the state, Texans receive $4.42...
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Help Save Texas Libraries
News from TLA.The Senate Finance Committee met on Monday to consider the Texas State Library and Archives Commission?s budget. Senators heard testimony about TexShare, Loan Star Libraries, the K-12 Databases, and the impact of losing federal funds for...
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Typos In Our Catalogs
This morning I corrected two typos in my catalog, Ethiopia had been misspelled. One time it was in a note field, another time in the subject heading. The note field would just make us look bad, but the subject field can decrease access to the title. (I...
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Tx Project
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission is pleased to announce an opportunity for public, academic, and other TexShare libraries to participate in the Uplift Pilot Program for the Library of Texas Resource Discovery Service. Uplift is defined...
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Library Portals
The Library Journal v. 127, no. 15 (Sept. 15, 2002) has an article "The Advent of Portals" by Mary E. Jackson. It describes some of the activity, especially by ARL, in designing and implementing a scholar?s portal.The Texas Library Journal v. 78, no....
Library Cataloging