Build the Open Shelves Classification Description: I hereby invite you to join the Open Shelves Classification (OSC), a free, “humble,” modern, open-source, crowd-sourced replacement for the Dewey Decimal System. —from LibraryThing. You can follow its progress or contribute to its effort here
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Google and Librarians — the lovelorn relationship
Well, if you haven’t heard all of the chatter and buzz, Google Librarian Central hadn’t been updated in a year (before today, that is)…and Google wasn’t at ALA leaving some librarians to call out google for punking librarians or even using librarians, while other librarians proclaimed, we weren’t surprised! While I fall more on the side of “google is a business, google is a corporation” ...
Google goes 3D?
Like | robinna | Jul 10, 2008 | 3D, 3D printers, life 2.0+, second life
Okay, not quite… at least, not yet. 😉 Google has entered yet another space with the launch of Lively, a tool for creating 3D social spaces on Web sites, which is now available in a public beta test. The platform lets users create and personalize their own character, so-called avatars, and their own rooms, which is nothing new: Second Life does as much. But a ...
VU Find – on authority control
Interesting article on authority control and VU Find includes a very good (and brief!) view of how authority control works, in general, plus detailed tweaking of VU Find to improve authority control.http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/57
OpenLibrary news
Like | robinna | May 23, 2008 | 3D, Libraries, metadata, open access
If you’ve not heard of the openlibrary.org initiative, the idea is “one web pagefor every book ever published.” A pretty noble undertaking….Anyhow, news is that have now have a total of 13.4 million books,with about 18 million more records to go.Of course quantity and quality are not the same. ;-DAs for where these records are coming from, they have startedmerging library records with other book ...
Web2.0 and your library blog (tools)
Like | robin | Apr 27, 2008 | 3D, Libraries, life 2.0+, media, Training, web 2.0+, widgets/gadgets
I finally started loading some of my presentations at slideshare. Hopefully, I will add audio at some point.This presentation was for GLA 2007 and focused on web tools for blogs.Sorry, the links work within slideshare, but the movie does not. ;-( ————–Brief introduction to Web2.0, mashups, RSS, youtube, flickr del.icio.us, and how those tools can be incorporated into a library’s website or blog. Also includes ...
Need a virtual signup sheet?
Like | robinna | Apr 2, 2008 | 3D, productivity, tools/tips
If you need a virtual signup sheet, give writeboard a whirl.
Flickr & the Library of Congress
Like | robinna | Jan 17, 2008 | 3D, Bibliographic Data, Cataloging, Data, Library Catalogs (ILS), Taxonomy, Vocabularies
Library of Congress announced today that it has partnered with flickr, putting up 3,000 photos from two of their most popular collections.Only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist are included. The LOC blog post about it is here:http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=233 The flickr page is here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
social networking, library services & web usage – a survey
Like | robinna | Jan 12, 2008 | 3D, Libraries, social media, usability
Interesting survey of 330 students at the University of Michigan; the social networking question was just one question out of the survey. The rest of the survey is kind of interesting, too! ———————–QUESTION: If you could contact a librarian via Facebook or MySpace for help with your research, would you? If not, why? Data/Analysis A total of 23% of respondents stated that *yes* or *maybe* ...
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