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A Tenglund | 1 Mar 18:51
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Call for papers: Journal of Library Innovation

List members may be interested in this call for papers from a new journal, the Journal of Library
Innovation. Autocatters certainly discuss some innovative ideas on this listserv--maybe some will
want to turn their ideas into a publication.

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The Journal of Library Innovation is seeking submissions for publication for its inaugural  issue in
January 2010.

The Journal of Library Innovation, one of the first journals devoted explicitly to innovation and
creativity in libraries, is a peer reviewed, electronic journal published by the Western New York
Library Resources Council. Its mission is to disseminate research and information on innovative
practice in libraries of all types.

Innovation in libraries can include, but is not limited to the following: 

The discovery of unmet user needs. 
The introduction of new services or the retooling of traditional services resulting in a better user
experience. 
Creative collaboration between libraries, or between libraries and other types of institutions,
resulting in demonstrable improvements in service to users. 
Implementing new technologies to improve and extend library service to meet user needs. 
Explorations of the future of libraries. 
Pilot testing unconventional ideas and services. 
Redefining the roles of library staff to better serve users. 
Developing processes that encourage organizational innovation. 
Reaching out to and engaging library users and non-users in new and creative ways. 
Creative library instruction and patron programming. 
Finding new ways to make library collections or library facilities more useful.
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Muriel YEUNG Wai Kwok | 2 Mar 11:27
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LibraryThing for Libraries

Dear Cataloguing colleagues

I am studying the application of LibraryThing for Libraries. It is
useful for providing additional access points for Library users. I am
wondering if know any benefit for the cataloguing workflow?

Thanks & Regards

Muriel Yeung

Stanley Ho Library

The Open University of Hong Kong

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Nicole Engard | 2 Mar 13:37
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Re: LibraryThing for Libraries

LibraryThing for Libraries has benefits for your patrons in adding
value to your OPAC, but I don't know of any benefit to the cataloging
workflow.  I would contact the people at the Danbury Public Library,
they have done a lot of talks about LibraryThing for Libraries and
their experiences with it.

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Nicole C. Engard
Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
(888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
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http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Muriel YEUNG Wai Kwok
<mwkyeung@...> wrote:
> Dear Cataloguing colleagues
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> I am studying the application of LibraryThing for Libraries. It is
> useful for providing additional access points for Library users. I am
> wondering if know any benefit for the cataloguing workflow?
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> Thanks & Regards
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John T. Hickey | 2 Mar 16:02
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Re: Subject heading-- Couples therapy

Christine,
I think that the placement of source fields indicates something.  The _1st_ one for Couples therapy, from a
current monograph, gives the extended definition (applied to unmarried, married, etc., couples) which
LC is recognizing in their definitions of the term. LC is treating Couples therapy and Marital
psychotherapy as related terms, with neither replacing the other, since LC is concerned with literary
warrant (or usage) The other 670s provided show that the professional terminologies in the med/psych
field do currently differentiate between Couples therapy and Marital therapy.
I would recommend using both terms if they apply.
John Hickey
Ithaca College Library

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Carol Reid | 2 Mar 16:48

Daily Typo - March 2, 2009 - Oppossum*, Opposum* (for Opossum*)

Typo of the Day for Librarians
Oppossum*, Opposum* (for Opossum*)

Do opposites attract? Bradley Kincaid, an early American folksinger, songwriter, and radio
personality, once recorded an early mash-up of "Liza Jane" and "Possum up a 'Simmon Tree." (The lyrics in
these two songs show up in a variety of forms, in fact. It was a P2P-sharing paradise back then.) In most
recorded versions, Liza Jane is firmly opposed to her suitor, and the possum is opposed by a "raccoon on the
ground." Kincaid's rendition was easily arranged as the tunes had the same basic melody, but the results
were lyrically arresting. "Liza up in the 'simmon tree / Possum on the ground / Possum said, 'You
son-of-a-gun / Shake them 'simmons down.'" Perhaps the most wonderfully absurd of all the confounding
wordplay abounding here is this description of the singer's beloved: "Her head is like a coffee pot / Her
nose is like the spout / Her mouth is like an old fireplace / With the ashes all raked out." OhioLINK shakes
down seven cases of Oppossum* and four of Opposum* (making this a low-hanging typo, but a juicy one).
Besides the similar sound of the words themselves, it seems that possums and persimmons really do go
together: the latter is a favored foodstuff of the former. I hope America's only marsupial knows enough to
wait until the fruit is dead ripe, though, or it's gonna be one numb opossum!

* In honor of my dearly departed Uncle George, who taught me about folk music and took me to countless
concerts, coffeehouses, hoedowns, and hootenannies. I hope the grass is blue in Heaven and all the folks
are festive.

(Photo from Mammals of Australia, by John Gould, 1863, from Wikimedia Commons.)

Carol Reid

Extracted, for AUTOCAT, from Typo of the Day for Librarians at http://librarytypos.blogspot.com/. If
you have comments about the words selected, how they are selected, or the way the items are written, please
contact Terry Ballard <terry.ballard@...>.

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Kelly, Joanne | 2 Mar 16:51
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ISBN question

I believe I have seen this question answered before, but can't remember
when...book in hand:

Among the Impostors, by Margaret Peterson Haddix; Aladdin Paperback 

Binding of book by Fitzgerald Books

My understanding is to use the number that applies to the item being
described

ISBN in CIP different from back cover of book

We have book that matches CIP

Vendor marc record used book cover ISBN, so when we loaded the record,
it created a new MARC record.

Should I delete vendor's record and tie to one we already have?

Everything about our existing record matches the book...the only
difference is the binding company's ISBN. 

Also, should I add another 020 qualifying Fitzgerald Books to existing
record? 

Thanks in advance for your help.

Joanne Kelly MLS

Library Technical Services
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Esther Mandel | 2 Mar 18:01

Change in author's name.

We have copy of a book by Joan Berry Dickenson, The Homesteaders : early settlers of Nokomis and Laurel.  The
authority file has her under Joan Berry Dickerson, for some reason, but the 670 mentions her book, The
Homesteaders.  I have been unable to resolve the spelling difference, although I have in hand the revised
2008 ed. of this book, because she has gone back to her maiden name, Joan Berry.  Just a warning.  She's
definitely all the same person.  

Esther Mandel
Cataloger
Sarasota County Public Libraries
Sarasota, Florida, USA
emandel@... 

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Esther Mandel | 2 Mar 18:02

Re: Change in author's name.

Oops.  My bad.  That was DickenMAN/DickerMAN, not Dickenson.  

Esther Mandel
Cataloger
Sarasota County Public Libraries
Sarasota, Florida, USA
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We have copy of a book by Joan Berry Dickenson, The Homesteaders : early se=
ttlers of Nokomis and Laurel.  The authority file has her under Joan Berry =
Dickerson, for some reason, but the 670 mentions her book, The Homesteaders=
.  I have been unable to resolve the spelling difference, although I have i=
n hand the revised 2008 ed. of this book, because she has gone back to her =
maiden name, Joan Berry.  Just a warning.  She's definitely all the same pe=
rson. =20

Esther Mandel
Cataloger
Sarasota County Public Libraries
Sarasota, Florida, USA
emandel@...=20

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Schutt, Misha | 2 Mar 19:21
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Re: Daily Typo - March 2, 2009 - Oppossum*, Opposum* (for Opossum*)

Carol Reid writes, of typos,
> Do opposites attract?

I know it's not Friday, but this reminds me of one of my favorite
transposition errors, which is probably a bit too obvious to have made
it into anybody's database.  In the tradition of "Choruses, Scared" (as
opposed to Secular), I give you:
   poopsite

Misha Schutt
Catalog Librarian
Burbank (Calif.) Public Library
(818) 238 5570
mschutt@...

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Judith Kirk | 2 Mar 19:44
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new subject heading

Hello,

We were cataloging the following book: "Million Dollar Les Paul: in
search of the most valuable guitar in the world" by Tony Bacon. I
had proposed a specific subject heading for this guitar, and it
finally came through, on week 6 of the LCSH weekly lists.

I have added this heading to the Master Record on OCLC (#231885720)
which has 35 holdings and 2 IR's. If your library is among those
with this book, please add this subject heading to your catalog's
version of the record:

650  0 Gibson Les Paul standard guitar

Thank you,

Judith Kirk
Coordinator, Authority Control
Western Michigan University Libraries 
Kalamazoo, MI (home of the Gibson guitar company; many of this very
style of guitar were made in Kalamazoo)
269-387-0688
judith.a.kirk@...

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