Library of Congress Meetings
The Library of Congress has formed the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, and will be having their first public meeting tomorrow, March 8th, at Google’s headquarters in Mountain...
View ArticleUsers and Uses of Bibliographic Data meeting summary
The official summary of the Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data meeting held by the Library of Congress at Google’s headquarters last week has been posted. Karen Coyle’s blog has her notes from the...
View ArticleCopyright Discussion
On Coyle’s InFormation, a blog written by the ever-interesting Karen Coyle, there is a discussion about the transcripts of a Section 108 Study Group meeting hosted by the Library of Congress on the...
View ArticleDeceptive Copyright Notices
Deceptive Copyright Notices is a post by Karen Coyle post about those notices that restrict the reader’s/viewer’s rights beyond what is allowable under copyright, and an interesting complaint filed...
View Articleisbndb.com
isbndb.com is one of several websites that allow you to search for books by isbn, as well as the usual title/author/keyword searching. Give it a try: grab a nearby book (if you are like me, there are...
View ArticleBibliographic Entity-Relationships
Karen Coyle has written a post on Coyle’s InFormation that I feel greatly helps to explain why it can be so complex to structure bibliographic information. I first encountered Entity-Relationships...
View ArticleSubjects and Messes
Karen Coyle (again) has written a great post on the subject of the Dewey Decimial Classification system, the Library of Congress Classification system, and Library of Congress Subject Headings. She...
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The Missing Link in the ILS
Karen Coyle writes about what is needed for the libraries of the world that don’t have the resources needed to install and use a full-featured integrated library system (ILS). There must be a minor...
View ArticleUsing Our Time Wisely
Karen Coyle wrote an excellent post about OCLC’s delayed implementation of the records licensing policy. An exerpt: Those of us who promote open access must use this time wisely. First, we need to get...
View ArticleFree Drinks Tomorrow
Karen Coyle writes about the Library of Congress and their follow-up to the lcsh.info shuttering last fall. In LC discovers infinity, she points out that at ALA Midwinter they not only stated that...
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