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...
Category: OPAC
Jun
02
2010
Librarians Do Gaga
by Bilingual Librarian
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My friend Lynn always finds the best things! Enjoy! ¡Mi amiga Lynn siempre encuentra las mejores cosas! ¡Disfrute! Source/Fuente
Jan
16
2010
Study of the North American MARC marketplace
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This morning, bright and early, I attended an ALA Midwinter Conference session hosted by OCLC titled “Redesigning Technical Services Workflows.” The session was composed of three presenters, two of which...
Dec
29
2009
Americas, Archives, Education, Images, Libraries, Library \ Book Tourism, Manuscripts, National Libraries, OPAC, Open Access, Oral Histories, Photographs, Politics, Preservation, Tools, USA, Web 2.0, World
Library of Congress
by Bilingual Librarian
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Today I spent the day at the Library of Congress and loved it. I was there with my mother and brother and we took one of the guided tours of...
Nov
29
2009
Red de Bibliotecas de Museos (BIMUS)
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The Spanish Ministry of Culture has created the Red de Bibliotecas de Museos (BIMUS) in order to make the holdings of a number of museum libraries available to the general...
Nov
02
2009
Archives, bi/multilingual, Europe, Images, Libraries, Manuscripts, National Libraries, OPAC, Open Access, Photographs, World
The European Library
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The European Library portal can help you search the online catalogs to all the major libraries in the European Union. The project originates from the TEL-project which was set up...
Sep
29
2009
On Library Catalogs
by Bilingual Librarian
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I was just reading an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education on library catalogs. The article starts off by mentioning a student who was having a hard time finding...
Aug
31
2009
Red de Bibliotecas – Medellín, Área Metropolitana
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The Red de Bibliotecas will provide you with all the information you may need about the network of libraries in the Medellín area. The main page regularly posts related stories,...
Apr
20
2007
Academic Libraries, Americas, Libraries, OPAC, Open Source, Public Libraries, Tagging, Technology, Tools, USA, Web 2.0
WPopac
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At the same lecture that I attended earlier this week I learned about the Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth, NH. This small public library has done away with their old...