How good is the catalog?
Pretty interesting piece by a member of faculty in the history department at
Swarthmore. I quote at length — follow the
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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
422 postsXISBN experimental use
XISBN being used in UKOLN’s demonstrator OpenURL application. Andy Powell
writes:
> This looks pretty interesting. It uses knowledge
Roots
Announcing the availability of the resource below, The National Library of
Ireland [https://www.nli.ie/] claims that genealogy is
TEL, SRU and CLD
The TEL project reports one of its main outcomes to be a “flexible systems
architecture
[https://www.europeanlibrary.org/pdf/
Web services and Dialog
> “The information industry is changing, and we are at the forefront of the
transformation,” said Roy M. Martin, Jr.
Where the money is going
Academic libraries are funded to support the research and learning activities of
their home institutions. As research and learning behaviors
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Dolorous Gorman
Students graduate from the successors to library schools without a basic education in the core skills that define an effective
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Book Brother
Vote to evict a book at Book Brother
[https://www.reader-development.com/4ureaders2/bookbrother/default.asp]. Part of
a bigger
u-Portal
I argued
[https://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/recombinant_library/dempsey_recombinant_library.htm]
a while ago that libraries’
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Library lookup and XISBN
Nice note on Jon Udell’s blog about XISBN:
> It actually sort of works, which says a lot for
Union catalog of art images
A Mellon-funded project at UC San Diego to create a union catalog of art images.
The intention is to explore
Dynix and web services
> We use Web Services with our new Vendor Integration Protocol (VIP), through
which acquisitions librarians can check book pricing
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