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Robb Mullins | 1 Dec 18:14
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easier for me for theses

Hi,

If you can put the theses on the cart or on the smaller tan phone shelf, that makes things easier for me.  It's
probably a pain to put them back on the shelf if people are in the computer cluster area by Eleanor too.  But
I'll spot them faster on the carts or phone shelf -- If you want to put them on top of the phone shelf, that's
probably fine too since they should be gone soon.

I'm dropping off the two carts in RB today for more theses.

Robb
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Weinheimer Jim | 2 Dec 08:58

Open Reply to Thomas Mann

Apologies for cross-posting.

To those interested, I have just made available another of my "open replies" to Thomas Mann's report
(http://www.guild2910.org/Future%20of%20Cataloging/LCdistinctive.pdf) on the E-LIS database
(once again) at: http://eprints.rclis.org/17331/
"An Open Reply to Thomas Mann's report 'What is Distinctive about the Library of Congress In Both its
Collections and its Means of Access to Them ...'"

Regards,
James Weinheimer  j.weinheimer <at> aur.edu<mailto:j.weinheimer <at> aur.edu>
Director of Library and Information Services
The American University of Rome
via Pietro Roselli, 4
00153 Rome, Italy
voice- 011 39 06 58330919 ext. 258
fax-011 39 06 58330992
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Weinheimer Jim | 2 Dec 10:01

Empower, Inform, Enrich - Report on public libraries

All,

There is a report that has just come out that seems to be of interest: "Empower, Inform, Enrich - The
modernisation review of public libraries: A consultation" at:
http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/consultations/6488.aspx

From their page:
"The public library service has a vital role in a democratic society. Libraries help to promote equality of
opportunity and intellectual freedom and public libraries embody a commitment to open access to
information and education for all.

Libraries contribute to a wide range of National and Local Government targets -  improving literacy and
early years education, community cohesion, learning and skills development, health and well being,
digital inclusion, citizenship, business support and entrepreneurship

However, there are five significant challenges for the library service:

 *   How can the library service demonstrate to citizens, commentators and politicians that they are still
relevant and vital?
 *   How can we reverse the current trend of decline in library usage and grow the numbers using their local library?
 *   How can all libraries respond to a 24/7 culture and respond to changing expectations of people who want
immediate access to information.
 *   How can all libraries grasp the opportunities presented by digitisation?
 *   How can the library service cope with limited public resource and economic pressures?

The consultation questions set out in this document provide an opportunity for a comprehensive survey of
views from as wide a range of people as possible including Local Authority Leaders, chief executives,
people working in the Library Service, public and private partners, business interests as well as
library users.   We shall publish a policy statement in the spring which will set out the Government's
vision for the future of public libraries"
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Jakob Voss | 2 Dec 11:58
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Looking for Ontologies to describe information about libraries

Hi!

For not to reinvent the wheel I am looking for any RDF ontologies that 
describe information about libraries. There are many formats and some 
ontologies (Dublin Core, FRBR, Bibliographic Ontology [Bibo]) for 
bibliographic data but no library-specific ontologies that I know of.

For instance how do you state that something is a library building that 
belongs to a given institution? How do you express opening times in RDF? 
How do you point to the URL of the OPAC? How do you say that a given 
collection is held by one library but owned by another person? I think 
we could reuse some parts of Bibo and from other general Ontologies like 
vCard, but I bet that there are concepts and relationships which only 
make sense for libraries - so they should be defined in RDFS/OWL!

I wonder why the Talis Directory does not include such library-specific 
information http://directory.talis.com/ui/ - they support vCard and 
their Address Schema in RDF [1] but not opening hours, ISIL identifier, 
library type, links to collections, URL of the OPAC and such (at least 
not in RDF).

By the way it would be a big step forward to have an URI representation 
of the "International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related 
Organizations" (ISIL) to refer to libraries.

Oh, there is not even a defined class to state that something is a 
libray, isn't it? It should be a subclass of foaf:Organization or 
bibo:Collection, depending on what you mean.

Are there any projects to bring information about libraries into the
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Goldner,Matt | 2 Dec 15:19
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Re: Empower, Inform, Enrich - Report on public libraries

Thanks for sharing this James, I had not come across it. Will be interesting to see the results.
Matt Goldner

Matthew R. Goldner
Product & Technology Advocate
OCLC, Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
+1 614.764.6405
goldnerm <at> oclc.org
http://www.oclc.org  http://worldcat.org

 

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Weinheimer Jim
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 4:02 AM
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Subject: [NGC4LIB] Empower, Inform, Enrich - Report on public libraries

All,

There is a report that has just come out that seems to be of interest: "Empower, Inform, Enrich - The
modernisation review of public libraries: A consultation" at:
http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/consultations/6488.aspx

From their page:
"The public library service has a vital role in a democratic society. Libraries help to promote equality of
opportunity and intellectual freedom and public libraries embody a commitment to open access to
information and education for all.
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Jacobs, Jane W | 2 Dec 15:16
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Re: Empower, Inform, Enrich - Report on public libraries

This starts with one interesting premise:

*   How can we reverse the current trend of decline in library usage and
grow the numbers using their local library?

I wonder if this is really true in the UK?  It seems that our experience
in the US is that library use continues to rise, especially in a bad
economy, when funding is cut.  Hence, even if there are "gross" declines
in usage, would these be a reflection of cuts in hours and services
(usage per hours of opening) and hence more declines in availability
than usage?

JJ

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Queens Borough Public Library
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Goldner,Matt | 2 Dec 15:23
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Re: Empower, Inform, Enrich - Report on public libraries

I had the same thoughts Jane. Two data sets I've seen show that public library usage has increased every year
for 11 years except 1999 and that when GDP goes down usage really shoots up. Haven't started to read all the
essays yet but look forward to the outcomes of this study.

Matt Goldner

Matthew R. Goldner
Product & Technology Advocate
OCLC, Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
614.764.6405
goldnerm <at> oclc.org
http://www.oclc.org  http://worldcat.org
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB <at> LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jacobs,
Jane W
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 9:17 AM
To: NGC4LIB <at> LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Empower, Inform, Enrich - Report on public libraries

This starts with one interesting premise:

*   How can we reverse the current trend of decline in library usage and
grow the numbers using their local library?

I wonder if this is really true in the UK?  It seems that our experience
in the US is that library use continues to rise, especially in a bad
economy, when funding is cut.  Hence, even if there are "gross" declines
in usage, would these be a reflection of cuts in hours and services
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Weinheimer Jim | 2 Dec 15:40

Re: Empower, Inform, Enrich - Report on public libraries

I checked in Bowker at http://www.ala.org/ala/research/librarystats/2009bowker.pdf

And on p. 2, they say:
"As America deals with a worsening economy, U.S. libraries are experiencing a dramatic increase in
library card registration. According to a Harris Poll released in September, 68 percent of Americans had
a library card, up 5 percent since 2006.

Survey results indicate that this was the greatest number of Americans with library cards since ALA
started to measure library card usage in 1990. In-person library visits were are up 10 percent compared
with a 2006 ALA household survey. Seventy-six percent of Americans had visited their local public
library in the past year, compared with 65.7 percent two years ago."

I can't find anything more specific with this cursory glance, but I would think that if in-person visits are
up, physical circulation of books is up, too. But, it may be that people are using the free web access to look
for jobs and get some diversion.

James Weinheimer  j.weinheimer <at> aur.edu
Director of Library and Information Services
The American University of Rome
via Pietro Roselli, 4
00153 Rome, Italy
voice- 011 39 06 58330919 ext. 258
fax-011 39 06 58330992

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> [mailto:NGC4LIB <at> LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Goldner,Matt
> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 3:24 PM
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Goldner,Matt | 2 Dec 15:58
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Re: Empower, Inform, Enrich - Report on public libraries

The data at National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is what shows public library circulation
increasing year over year.

Matthew R. Goldner
Product & Technology Advocate
OCLC, Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
614.764.6405
goldnerm <at> oclc.org
http://www.oclc.org  http://worldcat.org
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB <at> LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Weinheimer Jim
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 9:41 AM
To: NGC4LIB <at> LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Empower, Inform, Enrich - Report on public libraries

I checked in Bowker at http://www.ala.org/ala/research/librarystats/2009bowker.pdf

And on p. 2, they say:
"As America deals with a worsening economy, U.S. libraries are experiencing a dramatic increase in
library card registration. According to a Harris Poll released in September, 68 percent of Americans had
a library card, up 5 percent since 2006.

Survey results indicate that this was the greatest number of Americans with library cards since ALA
started to measure library card usage in 1990. In-person library visits were are up 10 percent compared
with a 2006 ALA household survey. Seventy-six percent of Americans had visited their local public
library in the past year, compared with 65.7 percent two years ago."
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Jonathan Rochkind | 2 Dec 17:15
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Re: Open Reply to Thomas Mann

Well written Jim, thanks.

Jonathan

Weinheimer Jim wrote:
> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
> To those interested, I have just made available another of my "open replies" to Thomas Mann's report
(http://www.guild2910.org/Future%20of%20Cataloging/LCdistinctive.pdf) on the E-LIS database
(once again) at: http://eprints.rclis.org/17331/
> "An Open Reply to Thomas Mann's report 'What is Distinctive about the Library of Congress In Both its
Collections and its Means of Access to Them ...'"
>
> Regards,
> James Weinheimer  j.weinheimer <at> aur.edu<mailto:j.weinheimer <at> aur.edu>
> Director of Library and Information Services
> The American University of Rome
> via Pietro Roselli, 4
> 00153 Rome, Italy
> voice- 011 39 06 58330919 ext. 258
> fax-011 39 06 58330992
>
>
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