Library Cataloging
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On Library Stuff, there is an article about the Toledo Public School libraries outdated collection "Imagine the world before the Vietnam War, before men on the moon, back when cloning only appeared in fiction.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 of the last few decades." This is inexcusable, were these libraries run by professionals?
The Sunlink Weed of the Month Club is an excellent resource to help keep the collection current.
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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...
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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...
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Librarian's Book Club Selection
Libraries in the Ancient World has been chosen as the April-May selection of the Librarian's Book Club. Libraries in the Ancient World Librarian's Book Club...
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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...
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Volunteer Positions
The Inform the World Program sends volunteers from around the world to assist rural librarians in South Africa, Guatemala and Honduras. The volunteers conduct practical service projects determined by the needs of their host libraries. Previous ITW volunteers...
Library Cataloging