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Jacobs, Jane W | 1 Feb 2008 14:15
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Re: VALE Symposium Update

This look pretty interesting, but I still can't get to "Symposium Home"
to check out Speakers, Agenda, etc.
JJ

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Edward Corrado | 1 Feb 2008 14:51

Re: VALE Symposium Update

Hi Jane, et al.

To get to the VALE Next Generation Academic Library System Symposium home page, first try

http://www.valenj.org  (make sure you have the www. or it won't work, at least it won't for me).

If that doesn't work, maybe using the server's IP address would work: http://165.230.4.97/

Edward

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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] VALE Symposium Update

This look pretty interesting, but I still can't get to "Symposium Home"
to check out Speakers, Agenda, etc.
JJ

**Views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent those of
the Queens Library.**

Jane Jacobs
Asst. Coord., Catalog Division
Queens Borough Public Library
89-11 Merrick Blvd.
Jamaica, NY 11432
tel.: (718) 990-0804
e-mail: Jane.W.Jacobs <at> queenslibrary.org
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Barbara Blummer | 1 Feb 2008 15:32

ER&L 2008 Update: Keynote Speakers, Schedule of Events and other news

Please excuse the cross postings!

Electronic Resources & Libraries 2008
March 19-21, 2008
Pre-Conferences March 18, 2008
Global Learning Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

We're excited to announce our keynote speakers for ER&L 2008 are Karen
Coyle and Tom Wilson.  The opening keynoter, Karen Coyle, is a librarian
and a consultant in the area of digital libraries. Most recently, Karen
was part of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of
Bibliographic Control. The closing keynoter, Tom Wilson, is Associate
Dean for Library Technology at the University of Alabama Libraries, was
elected President of LITA in 2003-2004, and has spoken and written on IT
and library topics extensively.

We've finalized and posted the schedule of presentations here:
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/index/announcement/view/8

Our conference blocks are full.  Three other hotels in Midtown Atlanta
offer discounted rates.  If you do not already have a hotel room, go to
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/index/announcement/view/7
for more information about the additional hotels.

Join ER&L planners after the conference to think about future ER&L
events and activities.  The planning lunch is scheduled for Friday,
March 21, 12:15-1:30.  Free box lunches will be available to the first
30 who RSVP to Jacquie Samples (jacquie_samples <at> ncsu.edu).

Want to know where other attendees are coming from?  Check out our
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Bryan Campbell | 1 Feb 2008 21:51
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Re: Help a student?

1 February 2008

Mr. Stapp:

A subject search for heading Tables of Contents in Library Literature will
retrieve most of the major papers that bear on this subject. I have read
most of them, except for the papers in German, and they all lead to each
other at some point.

You might also consider looking at the bibliography provided at the end
of Blackwell's "Tables of Contents Catalog Enrichment Guide" at
http://www.blackwell.com/downloads/TOCEnrichment.pdf. You'll notice the same
cluster of citations.

But for an alternative view, consider looking at the articles that
result from the subject search for heading Cataloging/Analytic entry in
Library Literature. Consider reading the papers by Herbert Hoffman,
especially his "Evaluation of three record types for component works in
analytic online catalogs" from Library Resources and Technical Services and
Anthony Schimizzi's more recent paper "Enhancement of Research Library Print
Material Through the Use of Component Cataloging: An OCLC User's
Perspective," which appeared in Cataloging and Classification Quarterly.

Just as interesting is the related work from the REUSE+ project (see
http://www.allegro-c.de/formate/reusep.htm).

Bryan Campbell
Library Assistant
VDOT Research Library
Charlottesville, VA
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Eric Lease Morgan | 1 Feb 2008 22:00
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library catalog as participatory network

In the most recent issue of ITAL, there is an article describing how
a library catalog can be participatory. [1] Specifically, the article
posits that knowledge is created through conversation, and by way of
extension, library catalogs -- as knowledge tools -- should
facilitate conversation.

The first half of the article justifies why knowledge is created
through conversation as well as provides definitions of Web 2.0
principles and "participatory networks". Participatory networks
"encompass the concept of Web 2.0 principles and technologies to
implement a conversational model within a community (a library, a
peer group, the general public, and so on)."

The second half of the article is the most interesting. It elaborates
on the definition of participatory networks. It describes how
libraries do this already though physical community spaces and
lecture series. It outlines how a library catalog can be increasingly
participatory through things like:

   * initiating conversations when no resources are found,
   * initiating conversations between users and books that they've read
   * changing the relevancy ranking algorithm to weigh things
differently
   * including a great variety of content (blogs, wikis, digital
repository, etc.)

I liked article because it emphasised people and communities. People
are the real sources of data and information, not books and journals.
Our information systems need to figure out how to integrate
individuals into them, and how to syndicate content to individuals.
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Alejandro Garza Gonzalez | 1 Feb 2008 22:15
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LCC to Conspectus service / webservice?

I need something that will map an LC class number into one of many
"subject groups" exactly like or similar to the OCLC Conspectus.

Hopefully, I could do this on the fly, programatically, with a web
service of some sort.

Is this something that Is In Breach of some legal agreement or licensing
regarding the OCLC Conspectus? If I look at conspectus reports from a
library, look at LC Class ranges in ClassWeb, and build something that
maps one to the other, is this ?

I just want to do what the OCLC Collection Analysis service does, but
one item at a time, to then let users navigate an OPAC by that
dimension. (Hopefully, we'd then have a hierarchical way to navigate
thru items catalogued with LCCs).

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Wagner, Kurt | 1 Feb 2008 22:32

Re: VALE Symposium Update

If you cannot access the symposium web page, try the conference registration page directly at http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/faculty/wagnerk/OLS-SYMPOSIUM/

Regards
Kurt

Kurt W. Wagner
Head of Library Information Systems
David and Lorraine Cheng Library
William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ - USA  (973) 720-2285
http://www.wpunj.edu/library
wagnerk at wpunj dot edu
IM-AOL: kurtthelibrarian

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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries on behalf of Edward Corrado
Sent: Fri 2/1/2008 8:51 AM
To: NGC4LIB <at> listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] VALE Symposium Update

Hi Jane, et al.

To get to the VALE Next Generation Academic Library System Symposium home page, first try

http://www.valenj.org <http://www.valenj.org/>   (make sure you have the www. or it won't work, at least
it won't for me).

If that doesn't work, maybe using the server's IP address would work: http://165.230.4.97/
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Gerry Mckiernan | 1 Feb 2008 22:40
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Re: library catalog as participatory network

Eric/

Thanks!

Folk may also be interested  in other manifestations of Dave's Participatory Frame of Mind
that I profiled in my _Friends_ blog a few weeks ago

[ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/01/scapes-participatory-reference.html ]

/Gerry

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Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
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>>> Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan <at> ND.EDU> 02/01/08 3:00 PM >>>
In the most recent issue of ITAL, there is an article describing how
a library catalog can be participatory. [1] Specifically, the article
posits that knowledge is created through conversation, and by way of
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Edward Corrado | 1 Feb 2008 22:51

Re: VALE Symposium Update

Kurt,

I thought it sounded like her problem was not being able to see the symposium home page to see the
speakers/agenda. Do you have a locally cached copy of that at WPUNJ? I'm not sure why some people can't get
to the VALE web site still, but obviously there is still some sort of DNS issue. However, I do know that one
person I was troubleshooting this issue with didn't include the www part and that was his problem, thus my
message to Jane.

Edward

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To: NGC4LIB <at> listserv.nd.edu
Sent: Friday, February 1, 2008 4:32:23 PM (GMT-0500) Auto-Detected
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] VALE Symposium Update

If you cannot access the symposium web page, try the conference registration page directly at http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/faculty/wagnerk/OLS-SYMPOSIUM/

Regards
Kurt

Kurt W. Wagner
Head of Library Information Systems
David and Lorraine Cheng Library
William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ - USA  (973) 720-2285
http://www.wpunj.edu/library
wagnerk at wpunj dot edu
IM-AOL: kurtthelibrarian
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Kyle Banerjee | 1 Feb 2008 23:04
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Re: LCC to Conspectus service / webservice?

A couple thoughts come to mind with regards to your problem. One is
that ClassWeb can't be used as a source of data. You can purchase
records from LC, but frankly I don't think that's a good way to go
(and it's expensive).

A better approach might be to perform a record extraction from a very
large library -- preferably a consortium where you can get a lot of
data. You will need to clean the data to ignore local call numbers,
low quality records, general numbers given to analyzed series, etc,
but you could then perform statistical analysis of call number stems
against subjects, keywords, or whatever you like.

I wouldn't get too attached to trying to make a sensible hierarchy.
Both the subject headings and classification schedules are more
enumerative than hierarchical so you will be limited in the depth you
can achieve. It seems like you could use co occurrence to determine
the order in part of your display, and facets like a lot of people are
doing in their catalogs for the rest.

kyle

> I need something that will map an LC class number into one of many
> "subject groups" exactly like or similar to the OCLC Conspectus.
>
> Hopefully, I could do this on the fly, programatically, with a web
> service of some sort.
>
> Is this something that Is In Breach of some legal agreement or licensing
> regarding the OCLC Conspectus? If I look at conspectus reports from a
> library, look at LC Class ranges in ClassWeb, and build something that
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