Tag Archives: Congress

Comparing the Library of Congress to Wal-Mart

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Steve

Surely the news from last week about some Congressmen unfavorably comparing the Library of Congress to the likes of Wal-Mart and UPS was one of the stupidest things I have ever read. I was genuinely shocked by the level of … Continue reading →

Posted in ala, blogging, cataloging, family man librarian | Tagged American Library Association, California, Congress, Dan Lungren, James Rettig, librarian, Library of Congress, Matt Raymond, Michigan, President, Vernon Ehlers, Wal-Mart | View Comments

A discussion with Karen Calhoun

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Steve

Tomorrow during class, Karen Calhoun, Associate University Librarian for Technical Services at Cornell, will be a guest to discuss the report she authored for the Library of Congress, entitled “The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, family man librarian, uiuc gslis | Tagged Associate University, Congress, Cornell, Karen Calhoun, Karen Calhoun Tomorrow, Librarian for Technical Services, Library of Congress, Mark Lindner, online discussion | View Comments

Start of class

Posted on June 20, 2006 by Steve

Last week I met face-to-face with the students who signed up for LIS578LE: Technical Services Functions at UIUC GSLIS. Overall it was a great time, including an informative meeting with librarians and staff who work in technical services areas at … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, cataloging, family man librarian, lis578le, rss, uiuc gslis, wordpress | Tagged Congress, energy, Karen Calhoun, LEEP technology, Library of Congress, Main Library, Mark Lindner, match with blogging technology, Open Source Software, Web Huddle | View Comments

EndUser 2006 notes on opening session [Updated]

Posted on May 3, 2006 by Steve

[Through a series of missteps that I won't go into here, I discovered that I had accidentally deleted this post, first published a few weeks ago. I feel pretty dumb. When I figured out what happened, I sat here, stunned, … Continue reading →

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ONIX for Serials and MARC21 for Holdings

Posted on December 22, 2005 by Steve

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 →

Posted in family man librarian | Tagged Congress, Library of Congress, Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee, MARC, MARC Holdings, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Serials Online Holdings | View Comments

Library of Congress goes Unicode

Posted on December 9, 2005 by Steve

Within the last month or so, the Library of Congress‘s online catalog received an upgrade that allows users to view and search for records using non-Roman (Unicode) characters in Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian, Hebrew, and Yiddish. See more information … Continue reading →

Posted in cataloging, endeavor information systems, family man librarian | Tagged Congress, Endeavor Information Systems Inc, Library of Congress, online catalog, online catalog help pages, online catalog software, Roman | View Comments

E-Archiving tools the next big thing? [Updated]

Posted on October 20, 2005 by Steve

Some recent developments and announcements make me think that e-archiving solutions may be the next big thing in the world of information technology and libraries. Certainly, things are heating up in this area. Several weeks ago the National Archives of … Continue reading →

Posted in endeavor information systems, family man librarian | Tagged Congress, e-archive solution, e-archiving, e-archiving solutions, Endeavor Information Systems Inc, information technology, Ithaka Harbors Inc., JSTOR, Library of Congress, Lockheed Martin, Mellon Foundation, Sun Microsystems, United States, USD | View Comments

Some thoughts on tagging [Updated]

Posted on October 17, 2005 by Steve

The other day I was listening to a podcast (NPR: Technology) on the way home. The topic was tagging, which is a hot topic right now in the blogosphere (see ‘Tagging’ Lets Ordinary Users Organize the Internet.’) Some time ago … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, cataloging, family man librarian, flickr, librarything, tagging | Tagged Clay Shirky, Congress, Gary Price, librarian, Library of Congress Subject Headings | View Comments

LibraryThing is cool

Posted on October 3, 2005 by Steve

Just wanted to point out a new site that I learned about last week, called LibraryThing (www.librarything.com) that allows users to register to post their book collections online. That in and of itself doesn’t sound radical but what is interesting … Continue reading →

Posted in family man librarian, librarything | Tagged Congress, Library of Congress, web-based catalog, www.librarything.com, Z39.50 | View Comments