Monthly Archives: December 2005

Christmas is over

Well, Christmas is over. I’m tired out and so is Michele. We are still in our PJs and it’s almost noon! The kids are playing with their new toys on the living room floor, recovering from late nights, sugar highs, … Continue reading

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Tristan turns five

Monday we celebrated Tristan’s 5th birthday. Hard to believe he is five already! Next year he starts school. I hope to post pictures from his birthday party soon. On Sunday afternoon as part of celebrating his birthday, I took Tristan … Continue reading

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ONIX for Serials and MARC21 for Holdings

2006-05: Changes to Holdings data fields to accommodate ONIX for Serials in the MARC 21 Holdings Format (Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress) Just came across an announcement of proposals for changes to MARC that will be … Continue reading

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UKSG allows open access

In an email sent out on December 1, UKSG (the United Kingdom Serials Group) announced that it had completed digitization of all back issues of its journal, Serials, and made them freely available as open access. Click here to access … Continue reading

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Some Thoughts on RDA and ILS vendors [Updated]

Some time ago I noted here that an acquaintence of mine had snagged an interesting job at ALA as RDA Project Manager. Yesterday I sat down and read more about RDA, which stands for Resource Description and Access. In particular … Continue reading

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Shark attacks NZ racing boat

Those who know me well know that I have this “thing” about sharks and shark attacks. I also love New Zealand, where my sister and her family lives. So it should be no surprise that I read about a shark … Continue reading

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Posting from You’re It reviewing the past year in tags

I recommend reading the summary of the year’s activity in tags as written by Gene Smith at You’re It. Very interesting. It helps to set things in perspective for me. Probably the most compelling piece in this post is a … Continue reading

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Some things I’m thankful for

On my way to work this morning, I thought about things to be thankful for. Here are some that came to mind (not in any order): warm clothes, e.g. scarves, Gore-Tex gloves, down jackets, long underwear train conductors bus drivers … Continue reading

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NASIG 2006 preliminary conference information

Although there hasn’t been any official announcement of its availability yet, I noticed late last week that a website with preliminary information for the NASIG 2006 conference is now available from NASIG’s website. I’m hoping to go. The conference next … Continue reading

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Questions about tagging

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before, but I have been experimenting for a while now with tagging my posts using Technorati tags. I’ve settled on using Flock as my preferred blogging platform, at least in part because of the … Continue reading

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