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* April 10-14, 2006: Library and Information
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   - Blogging and podcasting in libraries
   - Web 2.0/Library 2.0

Controlled vocabulary resources

I am creating a controlled vocabulary list of business terms for articles in Turf News. Any suggestions for
resources pertaining to small-business thesauri or word lists to use for potential term structures? I
realize that this is not an indexing list-serv, but with the OPAC and database experience prevalent on
this list, I figured someone could offer some useful input.

Thanks in advance!
Christine

Christine Tobias
Library Assistant
Mathematics Library/ICL
D101 Wells Hall
Michigan State University
517-353-8852
tobiasc@...

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Controlled vocabulary resources

Hi Christine,

Businesses often use the term taxonomies to refer to 
classification.  ASIS&T or the Special Libraries Association 
may have more resources on this subject. Have you tried 
those?

-- Arjun    

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Re: Web4lib Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2

Hi Christine, 

Businesses often use the term taxonomies to refer to 
classification.  ASIS&T or the Special Libraries Association 
may have more resources on this subject. Have you tried 
those? 

-- Arjun Sabharwal

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I am creating a controlled vocabulary list of business terms 
for articles in Turf News. Any suggestions for resources 
pertaining to small-business thesauri or word lists to use 
for potential term structures? I realize that this is not an 
indexing list-serv, but with the OPAC and database 
experience prevalent on this list, I figured someone could 
offer some useful input. 

Thanks in advance! 
Christine 
Arjun Sabharwal
Remote Services Librarian
Baker Center for Graduate & Online Studies
Phone:(810) 766-4210
1116 W. Bristol Road
Flint, MI 48507
Email: arjun.sabharwal@...
Online Library Web site: https://www.baker.edu/library/dlls/main.cfm
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RE: Web4lib Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2

Hello Christine, 
You might try http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com/ which I found through Michael Middleton's Controlled
vocabulary page, http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~middletm/cont_voc.html It is one of three thesauri
websites recommended by Rosenfeld and Morville in Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. (The
other two have no business listings.) Barbara

Barbara Telford-Ishida
Reference & Chat Librarian
Newark Library (CA)

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Call for speakers: ALCTS Scholarly Communication, ALA Annual

The ALCTS Scholarly Communication Discussion Group is looking for speakers
for its meeting at the ALA Annual meeting, New Orleans, on Monday June 26,
2006, from 1:30-3:30 pm. We are looking for speakers who are willing to
discuss the role of technical services in institutional respositories.
Additional time will be allowed for questions and answers. Please respond
to Brad Eden, brad.eden@..., by April 21, 2006. Thanks.

      We will also be looking for a new Vice-Chair/Chair Elect.  If you are
      interested, please contact Andrea Imre at aimre@...  Thanks.

      Brad Eden, Ph.D.
      Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications
      Head, Web and Digitization Services
      University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries
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      Andrea Imre
      Vice-Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications
      Electronic Resources Librarian
      Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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RE: web site PR sections

Hi Karen,

We also use a Wordpress blog to chronicle what's new, updated, and happening at Pikes Peak Library District:

http://library.ppld.org/Blogs/ppld/

We have a committee that submits entries, as well as RSS capability.  It is pretty easy to use and free.

Sincerely,

Virginia Franklyn
Pikes Peak Library District

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Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:39 PM
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Subject: RE: [Web4lib] web site PR sections

Hi Karen,

We use a Wordpress blog to publicize events.
http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/library_news/ 

Our library director and an editor can login to the application and
enter events.  The Wordpress interface is easy to use and we have not
experienced any problems.  

Wordpress also produces an RSS feed which we can pop into our home page.

RE: RSS FEEDERS/aggregators

I use RSSReader as my primary RSS aggregator mainly because it's pretty easy to use, is free, and allows me to
subscribe to my internal (Intranet) blog.

www.RSSReader.com

Sincerely,

Virginia Franklyn
Pikes Peak Library District

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Subject: Re: [Web4lib] RSS FEEDERS/aggregators

I've used the free FeedReader desktop application on a PC for well 
over a year now:

http://www.feedreader.com/

Leslie

At 01:20 AM 3/31/2006, jennifer.kirton@... wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>As an overworked, solo, special librarian I'm about two years behind with
>all the latest technology etc, but I would like to start using RSS feeds
>to stay up to date.  (Once I knew what I was doing, I would look to

Re: Website User Survey Samples

Thank you all for your help in this matter.  We have put up our first survey:

http://www.jenkinslaw.org/services/websurvey.php 

We will be doing more through the rest of the year.

Thanks again,
Nicole Engard
Web Manager
Jenkins Law Library
http://www.jenkinslaw.org/
http://www.web2learning.net/

>>> "Nicole Engard" <nengard@...> 02/06/06 10:39AM >>>
We are going to be redesigning our library site and catalog site this year.  I'd like to have a series of
surveys on our website to see what our users think of what we have and what they'd like to see.  I was wondering
if anyone had any samples they may have used or seen - something I can use as a jumping off point.

Thank you,

Nicole C. Engard
Web Manager
Jenkins Law Library
http://www.jenkinslaw.org 
http://www.web2learning.net 

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JOBS: San Francisco Public Library

Posted by request, please do not reply to me.
Roy

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Deputy City Librarian,
Chief of Branches &
Chief of Information Technology
(3 Positions)

San Francisco Public Library

San Francisco, California's premiere city, seeks leaders in the  
library profession for three positions:

Deputy City Librarian: Acts as the assistant to the City Librarian in  
the administration of the operations and activities of the Public  
Library.  Ideal candidates will be visionary leaders with excellent  
communication and team building skills and an in-depth understanding  
of the issues confronting large urban libraries.  Salary range:  
$100,022 - $134,004.

Chief of Branches: Manages the Branch Library Division of the San  
Francisco Public Library, with oversight of twenty-seven Libraries  
and 189 staff.  Salary range: $86,398 - $115,778.

Chief of Information Technology: Manages the Information Technology  
Division of the San Francisco Public Library consisting of 24.5  
FTEs.  Salary range: $86,398 - $115,778.