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McGrath, Kelley C. | 1 Oct 16:21
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Seeking volunteers and input for moving image work project

OLAC (Online Audiovisual Catalogers) has been investigating ideas for improving access to moving image
works for some time (see http://www.olacinc.org/drupal/?q=node/27). I am hoping to apply for a grant
for a demonstration project. I have put together an overview of what I hope can be done at http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/kmcgrath/world_shared.

The basic goals I see for this experiment at this point are:

1. Import and convert current MARC manifestation-level bibliographic records into FRBR-based records,
including both work/primary expression records (similar to an IMDb record) and records with
expression- and manifestation-level limiters linked to items in libraries or archives to help users
find the particular item(s) that meet their needs.

2. Create an end-user interface for searching, browsing, and obtaining moving image materials that
leverages facets based on structured data to improve browsing and navigation.

3. Develop a back-end maintenance module that supports adding new records, editing and merging existing
records, and deleting records in single record and batch mode.

I am looking for people who would be interested in brainstorming and fleshing out the details of a grant
proposal and possibly being involved in an eventual grant.

If you would like to participate in this discussion, please send me an email at kmcgrath <at> bsu.edu by Monday,
October 12, stating why you're interested in this project and what you think you could contribute. We need
all sorts of perspectives, including cataloging/metadata, database design, web design, user needs
assessment, user interface construction, budgeting, etc., etc. Or even if you're just interested in
taking part in the discussion.

Thank you.

Kelley
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McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] | 1 Oct 20:28
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Vooks = Text+Video+Etc. > Coming To An iPhone Near You ...

Colleagues/

>>>As I Noted On More Than One Occasion > We Are MultiModal Social
Creatures<<< 

Think About The Possibilities For 

Information Literacy / Museum Education / Reference Works / YouNameIt 

/Gerry 

Curling Up With Hybrid Books, Videos Included / MOTOKO RICH /  NYTimes /
October 1 2009

For more than 500 years the book has been a remarkably stable entity: a
coherent string of connected words, printed on paper and bound between
covers. But in the age of the iPhone, Kindle and YouTube, the notion of
the book is becoming increasingly elastic as publishers mash together
text, video and Web features in a scramble to keep readers interested in
an archaic form of entertainment.

On Thursday, for instance, Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Ernest
Hemingway and Stephen King, is working with a multimedia partner to
release four "vooks," which intersperse videos throughout electronic
text that can be read - and viewed - online or on an iPhone or iPod
Touch.  And in early September Anthony E. Zuiker, ...  released "Level
26: Dark Origins," a novel - published on paper, as an e-book and in an
audio version - in which readers are invited to log on to a Web site to
watch brief videos that flesh out the plot.
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Simpson, Betsy | 1 Oct 22:00
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Job Announcement: Metadata/Ontology Expert, University of Florida

The UF George A. Smathers Libraries are now accepting applications for a Metadata/Ontology Expert. The
position is part of the NIH grant "Enabling National Networking of Scientists and Resource Discovery
(http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/the_american_recovery_and_reinvestment_act/enabling_national_networking_and_resource_discovery/).
 The position will be time-limited to approximately 24 months (the duration of the grant.)
The Metadata/Ontology IT Expert performs duties related to the development and maintenance of an
ontology scheme for the VIVO database application. As such the incumbent will work under the direction of
UF Implementation Team Lead (in collaboration with corresponding team at Cornell and Indiana
University) to develop and maintain a commonly agreed upon metadata vocabulary that reflects the needs
of the local ontology users but is also interoperable and geographically, administratively, and
functionally scalable with the national interface. This position will work closely with the Health
Science Center MeSH expert to ensure that the MeSH terms are properly integrated into the standard
ontology and that proper mapping occurs. Evaluation of the local usability of metadata and refining the
metadata in a manner that facilitates access is a key responsibility of the position.

For more information:
IT Expert - Metadata/Ontology Expert - Marston Science Library
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/pers/documents/ITExpert00004639PVA09.09.pdf
Note: The grant has been awarded.

Deadline Date: October 15, 2009

The VIVO National Network for Biomedical Researchers project is a UF partnership with Cornell University
Library and five other academic research institutions over two years - to create an integrated national
information network on biomedical research that will serve not just researchers, but also students,
administrative and service officials, prospective faculty and students, donors, funding agencies,
and the public.
If you have any questions, please contact:

Sara Russell Gonzalez, Ph.D., M.L.I.S.
VIVO <at> UF Implementation Team Lead
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B.G. Sloan | 2 Oct 00:18
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The Library-Catalog Wars: 'Chronicle' Readers Weigh In

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

"Catalogs are the problem! Librarians are the problem! Students are the problem! A new Chronicle article
on trends in library catalog software has touched off an online reader debate about who's to blame for
patrons' search frustrations and how to fix the situation."
 
Full text at: 
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-Library-Catalog-Wars-/8300/

Bernie Sloan
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James Weinheimer | 2 Oct 10:10

Re: The Library-Catalog Wars: 'Chronicle' Readers Weigh In

I like what Susan L. Gibbons wrote. Since my interest is in library history,
I've done some very quick, and "thoroughly unthorough" research to gather a
couple of thoughts that I think are relevant to our situation today. Sorry
for the extended quotes, but I think they are highly pertinent.
Incidentally, I got neither of these through a library.

From: United States. Public Libraries in the United States of America: Their
History, Condition and Management : Special Report. Washington: Government
Printing Office, 1876, pt. 1. pg. xi
http://www.archive.org/details/pt1publiclibrarie00unituoft
<quote>
"The Librarian as Educator

The influence of the librarian as an educator is rarely estimated by outside
observers, and probably seldom fully realized even by himself. Performing
his duties independently of direct control as to their details, usually
selecting the books that are to be purchased by the library and read by its
patrons, often advising individual readers as to a proper course of reading
and placing in their hands the books they are to read, and pursuing his own
methods of administration generally without reference to those in use
elsewhere, the librarian has silently, almost unconsciously, gained
ascendancy over the habits of thought and literary tastes of a multitude of
readers, who find in the public library their only means of intellectual
improvement. That educators should be able to know the direction and gauge
the extent and results of this potential influence and that librarians
should not only understand their primary duties as purveyors of literary
supplies to the people, but also realize their high privileges and
responsibilities as teachers, are matters of great import to the interests
of public education."
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Karen Coyle | 2 Oct 11:13

Re: The Library-Catalog Wars: 'Chronicle' Readers Weigh In

Quoting James Weinheimer <j.weinheimer <at> AUR.EDU>:

>
> Still, to expect that anybody is going to sit still for a two-hour seminar
> on how to use a traditional library catalog is a little like expecting
> people to sit still for a seminar in how to shoe a horse. Some very few may
> be interested, but the majority of people have moved beyond.

I just read a great comment about the fight by newspaper publishers  
against Google's use of the news -- it compared the publishers to ice  
salesmen trying to convince their customers not to purchase  
refrigerators, but to continue to keep things cold in big buckets with  
chunks of ice. This is a variation on the 'buggy whip' metaphor, but  
equally apt. You just can't expect people not to move forward when  
they perceive a better way to do things. What I find particularly  
interesting is that in the library world we have turned it into a  
moral issue, more than a technical one. Jim's quotes give us something  
of a hint about the underlying moral motivation in libraries. We have  
some great values, like freedom of information, but we also have a  
heavy streak of 'we know better because what we do is, by definition,  
Good For You.' That's a big bucket of ice, IMO.

kc

--

-- 
Karen Coyle
kcoyle <at> kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
ph: 1-510-540-7596
m: 1-510-435-8234
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Barbara Blummer | 5 Oct 16:17

ER&L 2010 Registration Now Open!

Please excuse the cross postings!

Registration is now open for the 2010 Electronic Resources & Libraries
Conference to be held February 1, 2010 - February 3, 2010 (with
pre-conferences on January 31) at the AT&T Executive Education &
Conference Center at the University of Texas in Austin, TX, USA

Register here: http://electroniclibrarian.org/register

Your registration for the ER&L Conference includes 
*Access to all programs during the 3-day conference 
*Sponsors' Reception 
*Breakfast each morning & All day snacks
*Access to all online conference materials

Early registration rates (through December 1, 2009)
*Professional $220 
*Paraprofessional/Library Associate $150 
*Student $100 
*Half-day Pre-Conference Workshops(TBA) $150 

ER&L will offer student and needs-based awards to attend the conference
or participate online - more details will be announced soon.  Conference
presenters receive 50% off registration, so consider submitting a
proposal by October 30th:
http://electroniclibrarian.org/forum/2009/09/01/erl-2010-call-for-propos
al/

Complete ER&L '10 conference details are online at:
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org
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Dan Matei | 6 Oct 22:43
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"SkyRiver Sparks Cataloging Competition with OCLC" ?

What do you think ?

www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6700415.html?nid=2671&rid=#reg_visitor_id&source=link

It will have a significant impact ?

Dan

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Charley Pennell | 6 Oct 23:12
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Re: "SkyRiver Sparks Cataloging Competition with OCLC" ?

I rather doubt it.  The copy that is available in SkyRiver (DLC, UKM)
can usually be captured for free through Z39.50/SRU anyway, so the
harder to find titles (A-V materials, kiddie-lit, non-English language
materials) will mean libraries either have to do more original
cataloging, or go back to OCLC.  The rather useful ILL functionality of
OCLC would be lost here as well.  DRA used to offer similar services
through their "Classic" interface, with the LCNAF/SAF files and the LC
bib files, but this didn't stop libraries from joining OCLC.  Other ILS
vendors probably offer this service as well.  It would only become a
full-fledged bibliographic utility if III maintained the database in
real time (not with weekly batch updates from LC), linked authority to
bib records, allowed libraries to indicate/set holdings, load original
records into the system, request ILL from other members as well as
non-members, create union lists, and so on.  Simply enabling record
derivation is really no more of a bib utility than Bibliofile/ITS,
Marcive, or a library's book supplier.

It is rather ironic that this service was started by the very same guy
whose business was built on top of a proprietary black box that enabled
libraries to load bibliographic records from OCLC into their local
automated circulation system!  Not that I don't think OCLC could use
some competition.

   Charley

>>> Dan Matei <Dan <at> CIMEC.RO> 10/6/2009 4:43 PM >>>
What do you think ?

www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6700415.html?nid=2671&rid=#reg_visitor_id&source=link
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Jonathan Rochkind | 6 Oct 23:38
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Re: "SkyRiver Sparks Cataloging Competition with OCLC" ?

Charley Pennell wrote:
> vendors probably offer this service as well.  It would only become a
> full-fledged bibliographic utility if III maintained the database in
> real time (not with weekly batch updates from LC), linked authority to
> bib records, allowed libraries to indicate/set holdings, load original
> records into the system, request ILL from other members as well as
> non-members, create union lists, and so on.
I believe that Ex Libris is trying to do all (and more) this with their 
in development product. We will see how they do, it's interesting.
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