Catalogablog:- The source code listed below has been recently approved. The code will be added to applicable Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes lists. See the specific source code list for current usage in MARC fields and MODS/MADS elements.

Catalogablog:- The codes listed below have been recently approved. The codes will be added to the MARC Code List for Relators.

Christina's LIS Rant:- How would you design a collaboration community for scientists, given what we know about formal and informal scholarly communication in science; computer mediated communication; computer supported collaborative work; online communities; social software; and social studies of science?

Christina's LIS Rant:- *rant alert*

Catalogablog:- Some good news from OCLC about their OAI database, now you can submit your own records for harvesting, just use the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway.Repository managers from libraries, museums, archives and other cultural heritage and research institutions can now contribute metadata records for digital materials to WorldCat using the new, enhanced WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway, increasing visibility and accessibility of special collections, institutional repositories, and other unique digital content to Web searchers worldwide....Designed for self-service use, the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway is a Web-based tool that enables repository managers to customize how their metadata displays in WorldCat.org and determine their metadata harvesting schedule—monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually. Additionally, it applies their institution's "holdings symbol" to their records, thereby...

Information Wants To Be Free:- I was thinking about writing a post reflecting on recent posts about the myth of the graying of the profession (and the coming librarian shortage) and Peter Brantley’s post about involving young’uns in discussing the future of libraries, but Colleen Harris beat me to the punch. And because she really knows how to tell-it-like-it-is, I [...]

Library Stuff:- San Antonio Express – “In a sign of changing times at academic libraries, Trinity University is offering buyout packages to prompt seven employees to leave its Coates Library. With the digitization of books, journals, newspapers and other materials, there simply isn’t enough work shelving and cataloging to keep all 19 classified staff members busy, said [...]

Christina's LIS Rant:- Very disappointing progress for assorted reasons, not related to the book itself.

Catalogablog:- Image via CrunchBaseGoogle has bought Metaweb, the folks behind Freebase. This could be an important step on the way to a more

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Catalogablog:- Image via WikipediaI'm wondering, now that Atlases is a genre term (as it should be) what will the subject headings for world atlases be? Earth $vAtlases maybe?

Catalogablog:- Simplifying Question Answering on the Web by Raghu Anantharangachar and Srinivasan Ramani has been published as HPL-2010-92.

Catalogablog:- The 2010 Annual MARBI Meeting minutes are now available online.

Catalogablog:- Today, VuFind 1.0 has been released.

Christina's LIS Rant:- (no readings last week due to family emergency, readings will probably be light again this week)

Catalogablog:- NISO has announced the publication of its latest Recommended Practice, CORE: Cost of Resource Exchange Protocol (NISO RP-10-2010).

Catalogablog:- The latest issue of the NISO Newsline supplement Working Group Connection is now available.

Catalogablog:- The final report of the ALCTS Non-English Access Working Group on Romanization has been released.

Tame The Web:- .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Pier 1, originally uploaded by Michael Casey.

Catalogablog:- I'm going to see a shuttle launch as part of the NASATweetup. So excited. This map shows just how awesome it will be. It will be hard to think about RDA issues for a while.

Christina's LIS Rant:- Finished

Christina's LIS Rant:- This is 2 weeks, and really quite paltry.

Christina's LIS Rant:- This comps reading brought to you separately, because it is directly relevant to an interesting conversation happening on friendfeed. (what luck!)

Catalogablog:- A post on AUTOCAT alerted me to this, suggestions for changes to LC subject headings can be made from the Authorities & Vocabularies service. There is a suggest terminology tab at the top of the page. I missed that for how long?

Christina's LIS Rant:- Hess, D. J. (1997). Critical and Cultural Studies of Science and Technology (pp. 112-147). Science studies: An advanced introduction. New York: New York University Press.

Christina's LIS Rant:- Finished Shapiro. Well, to be honest, skimmed the last few chapters. Also to be fair - he's entirely against ruling by poll. I indicated the opposite last week after reading the first few chapters. It's still dated so not really recommended.

Tame The Web:- .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 8.31.2010 [15], originally uploaded by Cara Jo Miller. Cara Jo Miller writes: QR code on the back of my car that links to a page on my [...]

Christina's LIS Rant:- We often discuss the value of scholarly publications in terms of attribution of credit for promotion, tenure, and maybe even social capital (discussed in Polyani); but their primary purpose is to convey knowledge. The introduction and background sections review the literature and place the new work in context. What is the research problem? Why is this interesting? What do we already know? The methods section is for reproducibility - so that ostensibly someone could come along and repeat the work and come up with similar results, even though we know that tacit knowledge including craftsmanship is needed to actually reproduce many experiments, and that this knowledge is not conveyed through journals (discussed in Shapin). The methods section helps readers to trust the results. Were the methods appropriate to the research problem? Were they applied appropriately? Were any issues addressed? The results section tells you what they found out and the discussion section tells you...

Catalogablog:- Have an idea for an Android app? App Inventor for Android can help make it reality.

Catalogablog:- The NISO Institutional Identifier (I2) Working Group (WG) has released a midterm report and is looking for comments.The NISO I2 WG is soliciting feedback on the report and guidance for the next steps in developing this standard from individuals and groups involved in the digital information transactions. Stakeholders include publishers/distributors, libraries, archives, museums, licensing agencies, standards bodies, and service providers, such as library workflow management system vendors and copyright clearance agencies. Anyone involved at any level in the distribution, licensing, sharing or management of information is invited to participate.Please read the information below and participate in the evaluation of our midterm work by reading the midterm release document and answering a few questions about each development area. You are the stakeholders for this information standard. We must work to ensure...

Library Stuff:- USA Today – “With another summer ending, the time has come to ask the perennial question: Could this be the year higher education finally embraces the e-book?”

Tame The Web:- Aaron Schmidt writes:

Catalogablog:- I should have already mentioned this, but better late than never. Cataloging Matters is a podcast by Jim Weinheimer (who is already well known and respected from his participation in AUTOCAT and his weblog First Thus. He has already released the third episode.

Libraryman:- Yes to all three! I’ll be presenting a new online gadget centric presentation via WebJunction on October 6th that you are now invited to attend. Registration is free and here is a handy link for you to sign up! It’s called: “Gadget Checklist 2010: For library staff, users and our future” And as [...]

Catalogablog:- Version 1.0 of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format for digital content has been released.The open ebook community and the Internet Archive are pleased to announce the release of the first production version of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format for digital content. OPDS Catalogs are an open standard designed to enable the discovery of digital content from any location, on any device, and for any application.

Catalogablog:- News from LC.The source codes listed below have been recently approved. The codes will be added to applicable Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes lists. See the specific source code list for current usage in MARC fields and MODS/MADS elements.

Library Stuff:- AP – ” It weighs in at more than 130 pounds, but the authoritative guide to the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, may eventually slim down to nothing. Oxford University Press, the publisher, said Sunday so many people prefer to look up words using its online product that it’s uncertain whether the 126-year-old dictionary’s [...]

Library Stuff:- Harvard News – “In a move designed to inspire a new generation of library services, the University’s newly created Library Lab is inviting students, faculty, and staff to collaborate with the Harvard Libraries and serve as co-creators of the information society of the future. In announcing the Lab, Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor [...]

Tame The Web:- From an email:

Tame The Web:- .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A stream of digital consciousness, originally uploaded by Paul Hagon. My research co-investigator Warren Cheetham shares a link to this photo by Paul Hagon and writes: “Another [...]

Christina's LIS Rant:- I keep coming back to this piece:

Christina's LIS Rant:- Just in case google or an old link brings you here, I'm now at Scientopia.org at http://scientopia.org/blogs/christinaslisrant . I intend to import these posts there, once things settle down.

Catalogablog:- Sept. 1 there will be a new edition of the Library of Congress Changed Subject Heading Subdivisions.Each August I review the previous years' changes from Library of Congress's "Weekly List" of new headings and cross-check them with their annual "Free-Floating Subdivisions". Questionable entries are referred to the Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service for resolution. Changes are then added to my master file, which is then totally cumulated. Official publication date of each year's new edition is September 1.Joyce T. Ogden, the author, sent me a very nice note asking that I announce the newest version of her work.

Library Stuff:- Chicago Tribune – “A service through which libraries in Illinois can share books and other resources is at risk of disappearing due to lack of state funding. But nine library systems throughout the state are making a last-ditch effort to save the delivery service, which many patrons have come to rely on when they can’t [...]

Catalogablog:- Accurate Metadata Sells Books by Calvin Reid appears in a recent Publishers Weekly.

Tame The Web:- .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Mal Booth, originally uploaded by Paul Hagon.

Christina's LIS Rant:- Diffusion of innovations questions figured prominently in the folder of comps questions - seemed like nearly everyone had a question relating this area to another area, so this finishes up the readings I had on diffusion of innovations. (this post was added to throughout the week and finished after the post on comps preparations. there will probably still be some posts on comps readings, but I'm supposed to be doing more integrating now - and not in the fun math way!)

Tame The Web:- This morning I’m updating one of my favorite assignments for LIS768 Participatory Service and Emerging Technologies. Two years ago, I asked for further suggestions to share with my class. Today. I’ll do the same: what would you add? Please share in the comments below. I’ll be including the post URL in the course site.

Catalogablog:- Macon, Georgia will host the next OnLine AudioVisual Catalogers (OLAC) conference, from Friday, October 15, through Sunday, October 17, 2010, at the new Macon Marriott City Center. Registration will be available through September 20, and afterward if space allows.

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