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 …
“Catalogers, Take This Library of Congress Survey”
If you work in Technical Services, better yet, if you are a cataloger, you might want to participate in this survey. The …
Latest ANSS meeting
I’ve recently become a member of the ANSS (Anthropology and Social Sciences) committee on Subject and Bibliographic Access (previous post on the …
“Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front”, edited by K. R. Roberto
Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front by K. R. Roberto My rating: 4 of 5 stars The collection of essays in Radical …
OCLC Partners with Google Books
A few days ago OCLC and Google Books created a partnership that will allow uses of both services to benefit, and better …
The Commons
I started out being hesitant to go down the road that is making OPACs and other library related tools look more like …
LibraryThing for Libraries
During the same Hot Topics Discussion mentioned below I also heard a presentation about the implementation and use of LibraryThing at a …
PennTags
During ALA Midwinter I attended a Hot Topics Discussion Group titled “Tag You’re It: A revolution in patron-library interaction”. The first presenter …
WorldCat Local
Not too long ago OCLC rolled out a new OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) of sorts. This new tool known as WorldCat …
Open Library
Open Library is a new project starting out in San Francisco, CA, but global in scope. It aims at creating a single …