Library Cataloging
At the John Edwards rally last night I noticed the sign had a union bug in the lower corner. We might consider adding information about and from these bugs to the bibliographic record. Proposal for Inclusion of Union Label Description In Bibliographic and Archival Cataloging Guidelines is a paper on the topic.
- New Union Catalog
The Avi Chai Foundation has announced a new tool for Judaica librarians ? the Avi Chai Bookshelf Union Catalog. The union catalog, contains the MARC bibliographic holdings of 31 Jewish high school libraries in the United States and Canada that have been...
- Talis Source
Talis Source looks interesting. A union catalog (catalogue) of UK libraries. They freely accept uploaded records, no need for membership. If you are reading this in the UK consider contributing to the effort. How long before they start a US or North American...
- 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...
- Rlg's Redlightgreen Project
RLG is looking at a user friendly interface to the union catalog.The RedLightGreen project is a whole new way of thinking about library catalogs. Catalogs today are optimized for inventory control and transaction management - not necessarily information...
- Archives
I've just noticed I've yet to mention the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). This co-operative effort ranks with OCLC and RLIN as one of the most useful in the history of information description.The National Union Catalog...
Library Cataloging
Union Bugs
At the John Edwards rally last night I noticed the sign had a union bug in the lower corner. We might consider adding information about and from these bugs to the bibliographic record. Proposal for Inclusion of Union Label Description In Bibliographic and Archival Cataloging Guidelines is a paper on the topic.
Data are like drops of water. Individually, they are usually quite meaningless. Only once they are organized, with purpose, do they take on significance. This proposal seeks to rectify the oversight by catalogers to include information about a small but important item of published data - the union label, or "bug".
- New Union Catalog
The Avi Chai Foundation has announced a new tool for Judaica librarians ? the Avi Chai Bookshelf Union Catalog. The union catalog, contains the MARC bibliographic holdings of 31 Jewish high school libraries in the United States and Canada that have been...
- Talis Source
Talis Source looks interesting. A union catalog (catalogue) of UK libraries. They freely accept uploaded records, no need for membership. If you are reading this in the UK consider contributing to the effort. How long before they start a US or North American...
- 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...
- Rlg's Redlightgreen Project
RLG is looking at a user friendly interface to the union catalog.The RedLightGreen project is a whole new way of thinking about library catalogs. Catalogs today are optimized for inventory control and transaction management - not necessarily information...
- Archives
I've just noticed I've yet to mention the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). This co-operative effort ranks with OCLC and RLIN as one of the most useful in the history of information description.The National Union Catalog...