Tag: OPAC

Jun 02 2010

Librarians Do Gaga

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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

Academic Libraries, Americas, Libraries, National Libraries, OPAC, Social Networks

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

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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

Europe, Libraries, OPAC, Spain, World

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

Academic Libraries, Libraries, OPAC, Open Source

On Library Catalogs

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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

Americas, Colombia, Digital, Latin America, Libraries, OPAC, Public Libraries, World

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,...

Jul 27 2009

Latin America, Tools, World

Biblioteca Digital Colombiana

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The Biblioteca Digital Colombiana (Colombia’s Digital Library) is up and running (in beta). This service will allow you to search the OPACs of various educational institutions with one query. Work...

Mar 07 2009

Digital, Europe, Images, Libraries, Manuscripts, Open Access, Public Libraries, Technology, USA, Women

Financial Advice at the Library?

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Financial advice at the public library? Apparently so. As unstable and scary as the financial landscape appears these days all of us seem to be looking for advice where we...

May 23 2008

Databases, Digital, Libraries, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

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...