Please conserve: Think before you print this email. I will be out of the office starting 08/28/2009 and will not return until 09/08/2009. Please contact Steve Higaki at (408) 808-2436 or steven.higaki <at> sjsu.edu for electronic access issues, including SFX, databases, ebooks, and journals.
Geoffrey Nunberg of Berkeley's School of Information takes a critical look at Google Book Search's problems with metadata and classification. He says:"...you need reliable metadata about dates and categories, which is why it's so disappointing that the book search's metadata are a train wreck: a mishmash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess." Nunberg, Geoffrey. Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars. Chronicle of Higher Education. August 31, 2009. http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Book-Search-A/48245/ Bernie Sloan Sora Associates
Please forward to other interested colleagues and listservs. As editor, I am interested in seeing any articles dealing with coverage topics below. We are a peer-reviewed journal. Send any questions or articles my way. Thanks. Brad Bradford Lee Eden, Ph.D. Editor, _OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives_ Associate University Librarian for Technical Services & Scholarly Communication University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California 93106 (805)893-4261 eden <at> library.ucsb.edu _________________________________________________________________ Editorial objectives OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives covers a broad range of subject areas relating to the Web-based delivery of digital cultural content. The journal aims to keep readers informed about current trends in research, and to report on new initiatives and developments. Digital libraries and digital repositories are a particular focus, together with relevant standards and techniques. Unique attributes OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives publishes a mix of feature articles, case studies, news and views, all presented with the needs of busy practitioners in mind. Coverage ■Digital libraries ■Digital repositories ■Digital cultural content services ■Web metadata standards ■Web markup languages(Continue reading)
This may be of interest to list members in California. Sandy Schmitz Technical Services Berkeley Public Library 2090 Kittredge Street Berkeley CA 94704 (510) 981-6165 sas2 <at> ci.berkeley.ca.us --- On Wed, 9/2/09, Elaine Franco <eafranco <at> UCDAVIS.EDU> wrote: > From: Elaine Franco <eafranco <at> UCDAVIS.EDU> > Subject: [ACAT] CLA Technical Services Interest Group New Leader Award > To: AUTOCAT <at> LISTSERV.SYR.EDU > Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 3:27 PM > Technical Services Interest Group New > Leader Award > > (Sponsored by the California Library Association Technical > Services Interest Group.) > > Up to $500 is available to be awarded to the successful > applicant to help > cover registration, travel, and lodging expenses for > attending the CLA Annual > Conference in Pasadena from October 30-November 2, 2009. > > Criteria: >(Continue reading)
Hi All, Please visit http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/about/organization/jobs/staff/digital-library-programmer-analyst If you have questions, send me an email offline. Thank you Karim Boughida Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Content Management George Washington University Gelman Library 2130 H Street NW Washington, DC 20052 kboughida <at> gelman.gwu.edu
"The stereotypical library is dying -- and it's taking its shushing ladies, dank smell and endless shelves of books with it. Books are being pushed aside for digital learning centers and gaming areas. 'Loud rooms' that promote public discourse and group projects are taking over the bookish quiet. Hipster staffers who blog, chat on Twitter and care little about the Dewey Decimal System are edging out old-school librarians." http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/04/future.library.technology/ Bernie Sloan Sora Associates
Similar article in the Boston Globe about a private prep school discarding all books and making the "library" totally digital. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/04/a_lib rary_without_the_books/ Janet Janet Schrader Bibliographic Services Supervisor C/W MARS Inc. 67 Millbrook Street, Suite 201 Worcester, MA 01606 508-755-3323 ext. 25 fax: 508-757-7801 jschrader <at> cwmars.org -----Original Message----- From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB <at> LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 11:50 AM To: NGC4LIB <at> LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [NGC4LIB] The future of libraries, with or without books - CNN article "The stereotypical library is dying -- and it's taking its shushing ladies, dank smell and endless shelves of books with it. Books are being pushed aside for digital learning centers and gaming areas. 'Loud rooms' that promote public discourse and group projects are taking over the bookish quiet. Hipster staffers who blog, chat on Twitter and care(Continue reading)
$!@%!@#$ If I were an alumnus, I'd never give them another dime. Fortunately, I went to the much better Concord Academy—superior even before Cushing threw all its books out. ;) Tim On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Janet Schrader<jschrader <at> cwmars.org> wrote: > Similar article in the Boston Globe about a private prep school > discarding all books and making the "library" totally digital. > > http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/04/a_lib > rary_without_the_books/ > > Janet > > Janet Schrader > Bibliographic Services Supervisor > C/W MARS Inc. > 67 Millbrook Street, Suite 201 > Worcester, MA 01606 > 508-755-3323 ext. 25 > fax: 508-757-7801 > jschrader <at> cwmars.org > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Next generation catalogs for libraries > [mailto:NGC4LIB <at> LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan(Continue reading)
"When I look at books, I see an outdated technology" It may have more to do with the cost of staff and human-inhabitable space. The technology makes new savings possible. regards Mark ======================================== Mark Huppert Library Web Development & Integrated Library Management System Coordinator Division of Information R.G. Menzies Building (#2) The Australian National University ACTON ACT 0200 T: +61 02 6125 2752 F: +61 02 6125 4063 W: http://anulib.anu.edu.au/about/ CRICOS Provider #00120C ======================================== -----Original Message----- From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB <at> LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan Sent: Saturday, 5 September 2009 1:50 AM(Continue reading)
I wrote this on Autocat, and thought that readers of this list might be interested as well. JW Now that I have read the entire article http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1701 and the indepth response from Google http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1701#comment-41758, I must say that I think (more probably, I *hope*) that this may be the beginning of one of the most important discussions on cataloging and "metadata" today, and perhaps of all time. The importance comes not so much from what they say--which is rather elementary--but from the importance that the non-library community places on these issues, and even more importantly, this discussion is taking place not within the dusty pages of some forgotten issue of a library journal or on a closed specialist listserv, but on an open, important scholarly website (not a library website) and replied to by the most important information company in the world. This could be a moment for librarians, and especially catalogers (who are the experts in any case), to take advantage of a soap box that may be temporary. But we can't be too technical or overwhelming in our arguments. Some observations: 1) it looks as if one of my predictions for the future is already outdated. I had predicted that "all metadata" would be thrown together into a single database somewhere resulting in a huge mess. According to the fellow from Google, this has happened already since he mentions metadata they have taken from Brazil, Armenia, Korea and a few other places. It is interesting that no one anywhere discusses this in terms of "rules" or "standards" but as an Armenian database, or a Brazilian database, instead of an "AACR2 database" or "ISBD" or German or French or Italian rules, or whatever. Perhaps when the discussion is being led by non-expert metadata creators, this should not be surprising. (For the sake of clarification, in this discussion, there is(Continue reading)
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