Library Cataloging
I had a wonderful vacation in Mass. last week. I did find the number of dead, or apparently dead, trees appalling. All along Rt. 128 and the Mass Pike it seems all the birch trees have died. Many of the evergreens are dead or very distressed.I thought this might be the effect of acid rain. I was told that it was due to the severe winter and late spring. Very disturbing. I hope it was the weather, which might be a one-time thing. Acid rain would continue until we change our ways. Any folks up there able to give the real info on this devastation?
- Electronic Resources And Libraries 2009
The Conference is over. Some excellent content and good presentations. The conference committee should be proud. Also a good group of attendees. Plenty to learn just talking to others between sessions. Some takeaways.Check into having our catalog hosted,...
- Cataloging Info By The Crowd
The LibraryThing weblog has a post about their users adding author information.On Thursday we introduced a silly new "meme" page called "Dead or Alive?" which listed your authors by their mortal status--alive, dead, unknown or "not a person." (See the...
- Metadata
Death Of A Meta Tag by Danny Sullivan discusses the keywords tag use on Web pages. The issue of trust has led to search engines not supporting it.Now supported by only one major crawler-based search engine -- Inktomi -- the value of adding meta keywords...
- Spirit Writing
A while back on LiveJournal there was a thread about mediums who publish books under the names of the dead. The correct AACR rule is cited. However, there are some other considerations raised that merit thought....
- Cataloging Skills
Recently on AUTOCAT, there has been discussion about the skills needed by a cataloger. Here is my 2 cents. Catalogers are concerned with national and international standards. We have MARC21, AACR, the ISBDs, Z39.50 and so on. We like standards, interoperability,...
Library Cataloging
Trees
I had a wonderful vacation in Mass. last week. I did find the number of dead, or apparently dead, trees appalling. All along Rt. 128 and the Mass Pike it seems all the birch trees have died. Many of the evergreens are dead or very distressed.I thought this might be the effect of acid rain. I was told that it was due to the severe winter and late spring. Very disturbing. I hope it was the weather, which might be a one-time thing. Acid rain would continue until we change our ways. Any folks up there able to give the real info on this devastation?
- Electronic Resources And Libraries 2009
The Conference is over. Some excellent content and good presentations. The conference committee should be proud. Also a good group of attendees. Plenty to learn just talking to others between sessions. Some takeaways.Check into having our catalog hosted,...
- Cataloging Info By The Crowd
The LibraryThing weblog has a post about their users adding author information.On Thursday we introduced a silly new "meme" page called "Dead or Alive?" which listed your authors by their mortal status--alive, dead, unknown or "not a person." (See the...
- Metadata
Death Of A Meta Tag by Danny Sullivan discusses the keywords tag use on Web pages. The issue of trust has led to search engines not supporting it.Now supported by only one major crawler-based search engine -- Inktomi -- the value of adding meta keywords...
- Spirit Writing
A while back on LiveJournal there was a thread about mediums who publish books under the names of the dead. The correct AACR rule is cited. However, there are some other considerations raised that merit thought....
- Cataloging Skills
Recently on AUTOCAT, there has been discussion about the skills needed by a cataloger. Here is my 2 cents. Catalogers are concerned with national and international standards. We have MARC21, AACR, the ISBDs, Z39.50 and so on. We like standards, interoperability,...