Library Cataloging
On Extranet Peter Verhagen writes" I wrote a library material suggestion form to email script for Adult Services just recently so I thought I'd release it under the BSD license and share it with you." This is good. There should be more sharing of this type of work. Some big projects like MyLibrary and Morris Messenger come to mind. The forms and other minor scripts can save others time or for smaller libraries without anyone to write scripts, provide a service they could not on their own. Thanks Peter.
- Non-latin Characters In Name Authority Records
News from the CPSO.The major authority record exchange partners (British Library, Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine, and OCLC, Inc., in consultation with Library and Archives Canada) have agreed to a basic outline that will allow for the...
- Coins Tool
The COinS Browser Extensions for Your Library can autogenerate bookmarklets and greasemonkey scripts for sending embedded COinS to your local resolver.Below is a form for finding bookmarklets and greasemonkey scripts to support COinS links at a number...
- Non-roman Scripts
The display and encoding of non-roman scripts in the catalog is a problem. We are slowly but steadily moving to UNICODE. A good resource is NRSI: Computers & Writing SystemsThe NRSI is a research and development team within SIL International, whose mission...
- More Scripts In Oclc
Some good news from OCLC.As part of the Connexion client 1.40 field test, the first Cyrillic script record (OCLC #60678907) was input into WorldCat on June 20 by Diana Brooking, Cataloging Librarian, University of Washington, Suzzallo Library, Seattle,...
- Forms Again
After the posting yesterday about sharing forms, and other other documentation, it occurred to me that an OAI server might be the best way to go. It provides for metadata, indexing, uploading of files and is standards compliant. What it would require...
Library Cataloging
Sharing Scripts
On Extranet Peter Verhagen writes" I wrote a library material suggestion form to email script for Adult Services just recently so I thought I'd release it under the BSD license and share it with you." This is good. There should be more sharing of this type of work. Some big projects like MyLibrary and Morris Messenger come to mind. The forms and other minor scripts can save others time or for smaller libraries without anyone to write scripts, provide a service they could not on their own. Thanks Peter.
- Non-latin Characters In Name Authority Records
News from the CPSO.The major authority record exchange partners (British Library, Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine, and OCLC, Inc., in consultation with Library and Archives Canada) have agreed to a basic outline that will allow for the...
- Coins Tool
The COinS Browser Extensions for Your Library can autogenerate bookmarklets and greasemonkey scripts for sending embedded COinS to your local resolver.Below is a form for finding bookmarklets and greasemonkey scripts to support COinS links at a number...
- Non-roman Scripts
The display and encoding of non-roman scripts in the catalog is a problem. We are slowly but steadily moving to UNICODE. A good resource is NRSI: Computers & Writing SystemsThe NRSI is a research and development team within SIL International, whose mission...
- More Scripts In Oclc
Some good news from OCLC.As part of the Connexion client 1.40 field test, the first Cyrillic script record (OCLC #60678907) was input into WorldCat on June 20 by Diana Brooking, Cataloging Librarian, University of Washington, Suzzallo Library, Seattle,...
- Forms Again
After the posting yesterday about sharing forms, and other other documentation, it occurred to me that an OAI server might be the best way to go. It provides for metadata, indexing, uploading of files and is standards compliant. What it would require...