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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Daily Archives: 7 February 2009
LibraryThing and Authors
LibraryThing has implemented the start of a solution for the problem of distinguishing authors with the same names. This has been a challenge for libraries since the beginning of cataloging. The accepted solution thus far has been Authority Records. I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cataloging, Classification, Language, Libraries, Library 2.0
Tagged Authority, disambiguation, elegant solution, LibraryThing, Wikipedia
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OCLC Announces Review Board Members
OCLC announced the members of the Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship yesterday, save for a member yet to be announced from the European National Library: Christopher Cole (FEDLINK): Associate Director for Technical Services, National Agricultural Library Poul … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Copyright, Groups, Libraries, Licensing, News, OCLC
Tagged Brian E. C. Schottlaender, Christopher Cole, Clifford A. Lynch, Elsie Weatherington, Jennifer Younger, Karen Calhoun, Lamar Veatch, OCLC Records Use Policy, Pat French, Poul Erlandsen, Roberta Shaffer, Ted Schwitzner
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