Oklahoma Library Association's Technical Services Round Table (TSRT) invites you to participate in our TSRT Oklahoma blog with your comments, questions, and news.
Most excellent! Anyone have any hints for cataloging a doctorate's dissertation? It's a hardback from UMI. Main question: Is UMI considered a publisher or just distributor? [I know where to look for the answers; just wanted to get the ball rolling. :-)]
Let's think about adding links from our page to others, such as OLA's webpage. I know there's a template in Blogger that you can use to add additional features.
Has anyone seen WorldCat Identities at http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/? What do you think? I have recently been hearing that the library community needs to be opening our codes up to the rest of the web community, is this a way to do so? Ila
I hadn't seen WorldCat Identities before - that is really cool. It does seem like the kind of thing we should be doing more of. And if WorldCat data was readily available, I bet there are people who could do really cool things with it.
WorldCat Identities seems to be pulling information from OCLC authorites and from bibliographic records. There is talk about making cataloging, i.e. bibliographic records, simplier. However, it seems to me, that if bibligraphic records will be used for projects such as this, that more structured, parsed data is needed. Is the idea of making cataloging simplier in conflict with research projects such as Identities?
I think the whole idea of less data instead of more is in conflict with everything about how the Web and its affiliated tools work. I guess the end goal is to have the book itself (in digital format) from which to search, but that doesn't seem (1) likely any time soon, or (2) likely to be useful in any real way - IMHO anyway.
There is an NPR story about verification codes being used to aid in the digitalization of books. It is at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10936942&sc=emaf
"The group of activities in an institution that involves acquiring, organizing, housing, maintaining, and conserving collections and automating these activities."
-- From Wynar's Introduction to Cataloging and Classification
TSRT is a roundtable of the Oklahoma Library Association, and works to strengthen the quality of technical services for libraries and librarians in Oklahoma. Members of TSRT work in public, school, academic and special libraries of all sizes.
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Oklahoma Library Association's Technical Services Round Table (TSRT) invites you to participate in our TSRT Oklahoma blog with your comments, questions, and news.
Wow! This is cool! Thanks for getting it set up.
this is really nice. good job tsrt.
Thanks! I haven't tried blogging before, so it will be educational.
Most excellent! Anyone have any hints for cataloging a doctorate's dissertation? It's a hardback from UMI. Main question: Is UMI considered a publisher or just distributor? [I know where to look for the answers; just wanted to get the ball rolling. :-)]
The publisher is the department/university where the thesis was submitted. But can't say for sure without looking at the item.
Let's think about adding links from our page to others, such as OLA's webpage. I know there's a template in Blogger that you can use to add additional features.
Afzal, would you mind noting my institution? OCCC would be fine. :-) Thank you.
Has anyone seen WorldCat Identities at http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/? What do you think? I have recently been hearing that the library community needs to be opening our codes up to the rest of the web community, is this a way to do so? Ila
I hadn't seen WorldCat Identities before - that is really cool. It does seem like the kind of thing we should be doing more of. And if WorldCat data was readily available, I bet there are people who could do really cool things with it.
WorldCat Identities seems to be pulling information from OCLC authorites and from bibliographic records. There is talk about making cataloging, i.e. bibliographic records, simplier. However, it seems to me, that if bibligraphic records will be used for projects such as this, that more structured, parsed data is needed. Is the idea of making cataloging simplier in conflict with research projects such as Identities?
I think the whole idea of less data instead of more is in conflict with everything about how the Web and its affiliated tools work. I guess the end goal is to have the book itself (in digital format) from which to search, but that doesn't seem (1) likely any time soon, or (2) likely to be useful in any real way - IMHO anyway.
There is an NPR story about verification codes being used to aid in the digitalization of books. It is at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10936942&sc=emaf
Hey Afzal, how do I make the links in my comments hot?
Ila, we can not highlight links in our comments box. The only way to access the links is to copy and paste in browser.
NICE POST....
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