Library Cataloging
The Seattle Times has the story A cloistered treasure about a collection at Gonzaga University. The collection, including incunabula, from the Jesuit's of the Northeast U.S. is unavailable even to local users, because it is uncataloged. "I'm perhaps one of the last ones who knows the collection," says Father Fredric Schlatter, a professor emeritus of classical languages at Gonzaga and the collection's unofficial keeper for decades. "I've been very distressed that it hasn't been cataloged. It's pathetic. It's a disgrace."
- Librivox
LibriVox is becoming a valuable resource for free audio books. They just reached 1500 titles in the collection.We?ve had a pretty extraordinary May. We cataloged our 1,500th book, James Baldwin?s children?s history book, Four Great Americans, which was...
- Marc Records
This is nice, the Wright's American Fiction collection provids MARC records for the items in the online repository.This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There...
- Tag Cloud
At the bottom of this Web page you can see an example of a tag cloud generated from several weblogs dealing with metadata and cataloging issues. Now thanks to Davey P. you can generate one from your Horizion catalog.Even if you don't publish one for...
- Information Architecture Library
The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AIfIA) is pleased to announce the opening of the Information Architecture Library, an international collection of the best articles, books, blogs, guides, reports, and other resources related to the...
- Weeding
On Library Stuff, there is an article about the Toledo Public School libraries outdated collection "Imagine the world before the Vietnam War, before men on the moon, back when cloning only appeared in fiction. Imagine a world unaffected by the changes...
Library Cataloging
Value of Cataloging
The Seattle Times has the story A cloistered treasure about a collection at Gonzaga University. The collection, including incunabula, from the Jesuit's of the Northeast U.S. is unavailable even to local users, because it is uncataloged. "I'm perhaps one of the last ones who knows the collection," says Father Fredric Schlatter, a professor emeritus of classical languages at Gonzaga and the collection's unofficial keeper for decades. "I've been very distressed that it hasn't been cataloged. It's pathetic. It's a disgrace."
- Librivox
LibriVox is becoming a valuable resource for free audio books. They just reached 1500 titles in the collection.We?ve had a pretty extraordinary May. We cataloged our 1,500th book, James Baldwin?s children?s history book, Four Great Americans, which was...
- Marc Records
This is nice, the Wright's American Fiction collection provids MARC records for the items in the online repository.This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There...
- Tag Cloud
At the bottom of this Web page you can see an example of a tag cloud generated from several weblogs dealing with metadata and cataloging issues. Now thanks to Davey P. you can generate one from your Horizion catalog.Even if you don't publish one for...
- Information Architecture Library
The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AIfIA) is pleased to announce the opening of the Information Architecture Library, an international collection of the best articles, books, blogs, guides, reports, and other resources related to the...
- Weeding
On Library Stuff, there is an article about the Toledo Public School libraries outdated collection "Imagine the world before the Vietnam War, before men on the moon, back when cloning only appeared in fiction. Imagine a world unaffected by the changes...