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Re: [ACAT] Added Title Entry to Include Initial Articles
Posting to Autocat On 8/19/13, Tina Gunther wrote: <snip> Here is an analogy/metaphor that came to mind as I caught up on this contentious thread this morning. A catalog user who is stymied by a...
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An article about Libraries in the Chronicle
Posting to AutocatI would like to suggest two great articles in the Chronicle (an initial article and a follow-up) about the changing search methods of users, titled “The-3-Click-Dilemma: are library...
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Re: Great article
Posting to Autocat On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Daniel CannCasciato <snip>I thought his comparison of results from a library database search and doing the same focused search in a NYTimes...
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Re: [ACAT] Reference question only a cataloger could love
Posting to Autocat On 9/4/2013 8:11 PM, Piepenburg, Scott wrote: <snip>On the reference desk today, I had a student ask for “Divertimento in E flat Major by Haydn.” Couldn’t find it in the...
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Re: [ACAT] make real cataloging courses a requirement for graduation (was Adios
Posting to Autocat A few of my own thoughts: Although I agree that cataloging courses should be a requirement for graduation, and cataloging is still seen as one of the “core competencies”...
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Re: [ACAT] make real cataloging courses a requirement for graduation (was Adios
Posting to Autocat On 9/20/2013 3:06 PM, Anderson, William wrote: <snip>James Weinheimer wrote: Of course, I am a complete 100% advocate of library catalogs but their utility to the public will...
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Re: [ACAT] make real cataloging courses a requirement for graduation (was Adios
On 9/28/2013 5:27 PM, Marian Veld wrote: <snip> I agree with everything you’ve said. But I do think RDA, Bibframe, and FRBR are a step in the right direction. They might not fix the broken tools...
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Re: [NGC4LIB] The Return of Cards?
Posting to NGC4LIB On 10/5/2013 4:14 AM, Peter Schlumpf wrote: <snip> The way I see things going is the total dissociation of data and semantics with the medium and whatever technology used to...
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Re: [NGC4LIB] The Return of Cards?
Posting to NGC4LIB On 10/8/2013 5:19 PM, Joseph Montibello wrote: <snip> I don’t think the point of moving to linked data is to make the catalog more coherent, or relevant, or useful. In my own...
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Re: [NGC4LIB] The Return of Cards? [mailing list]
Posting to NGC4LIB On 10/13/2013 7:27 AM, Alexander Johannesen wrote: <snip>I’d just like to add a few bits about why Linked Data is or was important. It’s not really about sharing the data...
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Re: [ACAT] cataloger / cataloger studies, Inter-rater reliability
Posting to Autocat On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Nathan Rinne wrote: <snip>I am wondering about the topic of “inter-rater reliability” (see here:...
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Re: [RDA-L] RDA Toolkit Price Change
Posting to RDA-L On 11/23/2013 5:55 PM, Melissa Powell wrote: <snip> This cataloging consultant/trainer who works with small libraries is piping in. I am grateful for the price reduction for the...
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Re: [RDA-L] Automatically adding relationship designators (was Cost of...
Posting to RDA-L On 12/10/2013 8:52 PM, Kyrios, Alex (akyrios@uidaho.edu) wrote: <snip>James, would it be too cynical of me to summarize your position as “Our data isn’t good enough, so why...
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Re: [ACAT] Future of our catalog
Posting to Autocat On 12/12/2013 9:01 PM, Liz Fairman – LAWLIBX wrote: <snip> At a meeting of law library staff yesterday, I heard…: Library patrons don’t use the catalog. We should include only...
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Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9
Posting to RDA-L On 16/12/2013 21.09, Kevin M Randall wrote: <snip>Adam Schiff wrote: LC’s policy, however, implies that the compiled work does not become known by its title except through the...
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Re: [RDA-L] 6.2.2.10 and 6.27.1.9
Posting to RDA-L On 17/12/2013 14.07, Heidrun Wiesenmüller wrote: <snip> But, is it possible to make collective uniform titles useful and functional for today’s information tools? I believe they...
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Re: [RDA-L] Collective cities (that is, Collective uniform titles)
Posting to RDA-L On 17/12/2013 20.33, J. McRee Elrod wrote: <snip>I think we need to keep clear the distinction among:1) A collective title on the manifestation transcribed in 245.2) A collective...
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Re: [ACAT] How did you get into librarianship?
Posting to Autocat For those who may be interested, I have taken the postings to this thread (minus names and emails and repostings) and pasted them into a word cloud in Tagxedo, making links into the...
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Cataloging Matters Podcast #12 (Updated): A Conversation Between a Patron and...
Cataloging Matters Podcast #12 (Updated): A Conversation Between a Patron and the Library Catalog https://archive.org/details/Conversation_201401 Version without commentary:...
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Linked Data in the Creases | Peer to Peer Review
Blog comment to “Linked Data in the Creases | Peer to Peer Review” By Dorothea Salo on December 12, 2013. I must take issue with a couple of points here. 1) “Linked data should cut down on redundant...
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Re: [RDA-L] Re: Our goal
Posting to RDA-L On 1/24/2014 2:07 AM, J. McRee Elrod wrote: <snip>Lisa posted: With RDA is our goal for these descriptive fields to record information that will accurately reflect the appearance...
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Re: [RDA-L] Re: Our goal
Posting to RDA-L On 1/30/2014 11:21 AM, Thomas Berger wrote: <snip>“Collocation” hat two slightly different meanings or purposes, as we all know:1. Bringing together identical items (with respect...
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Re: Transforming non-MARC metadata to MARC to the library catalog
This topic, some threads on various lists, and a talk on youtube (that I suggest all librarians should watch): “E-Books Do Not Exist (and Other Conundrums of Digital Asset Management)”...
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Re: [ACAT] Advantages of RDA – get rid of disbelievers
Posting to Autocat On 4/18/2014 6:25 PM, MULLEN Allen wrote: <snip> These twin strategies – incorporating library metadata into the web and defining relationships so that users can follow their...
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Re: [ACAT] Advantages of RDA – get rid of disbelievers
Posting to Autocat On 4/18/2014 11:10 PM, MULLEN Allen wrote: <snip> It is unfortunate that I, a largely ignorant cataloger on the sidelines in a small city public library, feel a need to explain...
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Re: [ACAT] Metadata 101 – Post-graduate training?
Posting to Autocat On 4/17/2014 8:43 PM, J. Adalia wrote: <snip> … I’d love to get recommendations from you all about how to structure a self-taught program from beginner to where you think I...
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What Will Become of the Library?
Posting to Autocat For your weekend reading, you may be interested in this: “What Will Become of the Library? How it will evolve as the world goes digital” / by Michael Agresta (Slate, April 22 2014)...
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Re: [ACAT] What Will Become of the Library?
Posting to Autocat On 4/25/2014 6:28 PM, MULLEN Allen wrote: <snip> While I agree that finding reliable quality information can be challenging on the Internet, ironically enough, some of that...
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Bibliographic identities (Was: Dead man writing: spirit, fictitious person)
Posting to RDA-L On 7/3/2014 10:18 AM, Hal Cain wrote: I hesitate to say it, James, but I think you’ve slipped into putting things into the sort of categories that at other times you decry, because...
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ACAT Quality of MLS education cataloging
Posting to Autocat On 02/09/2014 19.43, Kevin M Randall wrote: It seems like the typical route now to a professional cataloger position is to learn a lot of cataloging basics as a paraprofessional,...
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