Disambiguating a name: Caicedo Estela, Andrés, 1951-1977
A while back my father started asking about name disambiguationbecause he wanted to be able to run a search in, say, Google Scholar and come up with ONLY the publications...
Tag: Cataloging
“Catalogers, Take This Library of Congress Survey”
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If you work in Technical Services, better yet, if you are a cataloger, you might want to participate in this survey. The LOC has put out a survey that wishes...
Jul
08
2010
Latest ANSS meeting
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I’ve recently become a member of the ANSS (Anthropology and Social Sciences) committee on Subject and Bibliographic Access (previous post on the group), and at our meeting while at ALA,...
Oct
06
2009
“Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front”, edited by K. R. Roberto
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Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front by K. R. Roberto My rating: 4 of 5 stars The collection of essays in Radical Cataloging cover a wide range of issue in...
May
23
2008
OCLC Partners with Google Books
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A few days ago OCLC and Google Books created a partnership that will allow uses of both services to benefit, and better locate library material. OCLC member libraries who already...
Jan
24
2008
The Commons
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I started out being hesitant to go down the road that is making OPACs and other library related tools look more like Google, Amazon.com and the like, but the more...
LibraryThing for Libraries
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During the same Hot Topics Discussion mentioned below I also heard a presentation about the implementation and use of LibraryThing at a public library by Kate Sheehan, Coordinator of Library...
Jan
18
2008
PennTags
by Bilingual Librarian
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During ALA Midwinter I attended a Hot Topics Discussion Group titled “Tag You’re It: A revolution in patron-library interaction”. The first presenter was Jennifer Sweda, cataloging librarian at the University...
Nov
16
2007
WorldCat Local
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Not too long ago OCLC rolled out a new OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) of sorts. This new tool known as WorldCat Local offers a three tiered display of cataloged...
Jul
31
2007
Open Library
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Open Library is a new project starting out in San Francisco, CA, but global in scope. It aims at creating a single database for all book ever published! This massive...