Like | robinna | May 3, 2009 | 3D, metadata, my work, survey
We’d love a few more survey participants. Feel free to share.——————Do you do metadata or cataloging training? Are you a trainee or a library or information science student? Archivist? Librarian?We could really use your help — 1 quick survey and help our research. Here is your chance to speak your mind about your training experiences!http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=S6LEGThhanvSpjVMeVzwWw_3d_3d
Like | robinna | Jan 22, 2009 | metadata, my projects
There’s a favorable review of Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front, edited by former UGAer K.R. Roberto; introduction by Sanford Berman, with a tiny sliver of a essay by me, and another essay Beth Thornton Serials Cataloger at UGA: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/newsletters/sept08/review.html#radical As reviewer Douglas King (UC Santa Barbara) notes, it “restate[s] principles and provide[s] innovative examples of user-focused bibliographic access, expressed with wit, humor, feistiness, and ...
Like | robinna | Aug 28, 2008 | metadata, my projects
Okay, so this will be of little interest to anyone outside of my organization, but here is a little diagram I came up with to help illustrate how the ETD MARC conversion/crosswalk script currently works with the Ultimate db. Just one example of the kind of things I do BESIDES web2.0/emerging technologies.
Like | robinna | Aug 25, 2008 | Libraries, metadata, opensource, social media, training / tutorials, watch.see.hear
I was digging around in my webspace and found this brief overview of cataloging. This was created for an introductory technical services class for the Gwinnett school medial library program. Cataloging basics View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: basics training)
Like | robinna | Aug 14, 2008 | 3D, FRBR, Library Catalogs (ILS), metadata, rda
Hopefully, some of my fellow metadata “moonlighters” will see this survey also. ————To *all catalogers* (with or without MLS) in academic libraries: SURVEY: Integrating Non-MARC Metadata Production into the Duties of TraditionalCatalogers. You are invited to participate in a brief national, online survey. The objective of this survey is to research the national trends in the integration of Non-MARC metadata work into the duties of ...
Like | robinna | Jul 19, 2008 | 3D, Library Catalogs (ILS), metadata, social data, software
Brief and interesting post @ RSS4Lib about projects to tag various library catalogs, and the relevance of lesser used tags. No mention of PennTags, but there is a brief mention of MTags from the University of Michigan. The real value of tagging is like that of a library: it’s the collections, the constructed universe of things that someone (a librarian, a subject expert, a user) ...
Like | robinna | Jul 16, 2008 | Libraries, metadata, social media, watch.see.hear
Collocate and Disambiguate: Currents in authority control and authority data, a new blog on authority control. It seems to be off to a good start (and I love the name!)
Like | robinna | Jul 14, 2008 | 3D, Libraries, metadata, open library, semantic web, software, tagging
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
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 ...
Like | robinna | May 19, 2008 | metadata
Link: http://liswire.com/node/63 Excerpt:OCLC and Google Inc. have signed an agreement to exchange data that will facilitate the discovery of library collections through Google search services. Under terms of the agreement, OCLC member libraries participating in the Google Book Search™ program, which makes the full text of more than one million books searchable, may share their WorldCat-derived MARC records with Google to better facilitate discovery of ...