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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Tag Archives: Congress
Free 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 they recognized the value of the service, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cataloging, Classification, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services
Tagged Congress, Karen Coyle, lcsh.info, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Subject Headings
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ISSN-uated
A little over two months ago, I decided to apply for an ISSN for this blog. The notification letter arrived from the Library of Congress yesterday: Libology blog has an ISSN of 1946-1852. The link on the ISSN number doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Periodicals
Tagged Congress, ISSN, Libology, Library of Congress, library technology, serials
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CPSIA and Libraries
The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), passed by Congress last August and due to be enforced beginning February 10th, is designed to protect children from exposure to products containing unsafe levels of lead or phthalate. All well and good. … Continue reading
Library of Congress LCCN Permalink Service
LCCN Permalink is a service provided by the Library of Congress that allows one to generate links to items in the LC collection by the Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN). The format is: http://lccn.loc.gov/99011685 This is similar to the … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Web Design
Tagged Congress, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Control Number, Library of Congress LCCN Permalink Service
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LOC Docent Training Videos
The Library of Congress web site has a collection of webcasts that they use for docent training. If you would like to learn about some of the collections within in the library, this is a fantastic way to do so! … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Training, Video
Tagged Congress, LOC Docent Training Videos The
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On the Record…
On the Record : Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Pdf), which is the final version (formerly titled “Report of the Library…”), has been released. Working Group main page. Daniel Chudnov’s humorous … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Humor, Libraries
Tagged Congress, Congress Working Group, Daniel Chudnov, Library of Congress Working Group, the Record;
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LENS – University of Chicago
LENS is an AquaBrowser online catalog installation at the University of Chicago library that has just gone live, albeit in beta. It is an impressive catalog interface, showing what can be done with our existing cataloging, good software, and an … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged AquaBrowser installation, Chicago library, Congress, Library of Congress Classification, online catalog installation, search results, the
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Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control – Draft Report
Library of Congress’ Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control released their Draft Report (Pdf) today, and are requesting that people review and comment on their recommendations between now and December 15th. This promises to be one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Government, ILS, Libraries
Tagged Congress, Draft Report Library, Report Library of Congress
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Browsing LCSH
Bernhard Eversberg of the Braunschweig University Library (or Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig ) has created a very neat, and very useful online tool : a Library of Congress Subject Headings Browser. Try it out; put in some of your favorite gnarly subject … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Bernhard Eversberg, Braunschweig University Library, Congress, Library of Congress Subject Headings Browser, online tool
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Subjects 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 highlights what, to my view, is one of the major … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries
Tagged Congress, Dewey Decimial Classification, Karen Coyle, Library of Congress Classification, Library of Congress Subject Headings
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World Digital Library
The World Digital Library is a project that is quite vast in scope, but is looking ready to take on the challenge of combining primary historical resources from many of the worlds great libraries. This project was started by UNESCO … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Maps, Open Source, Search, Software, Video, Web Design
Tagged Congress, Digital Library The World Digital Library, One Big Library, Open Source Software, search parameters, the Washington Post, U.S. Library of Congress, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Orga, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Orga, Washington Post, World Digital Library
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List o’ Library Links
The following links were posted to the Web4Lib listserv by S.Sripriya, a librarian for a dental college in Bangalore. There are quite a few good links, many of them Indian-related, and I thought it was worth it to just post the whole shebang: … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Services
Tagged Bangalore, Congress, France, India, librarian, library network, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Office, National Library of France, New Delhi, Ohio, online library, S.Sripriya, State Library of Ohio, The Library of Congress Office, Web Listing, Web Sites Information
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Bibliographic news
A couple things of note are happening in the realm of bibliographic information: The Library of Congress will be holding their second regional meeting of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control on Wednesday, May 9th. This one … Continue reading
Library of Congress Blog
It seems odd that it hasn’t happened before now, but the Library of Congress has just started a blog. from One Big Library
Posted in Blogs, Government, Libraries
Tagged Congress, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Blog It, One Big Library
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Copyright 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 topic of copyright, libraries and digitization. These meetings are happening … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Copyright, Fair Use, Libraries, Online Databases, Periodicals
Tagged Congress, digitization/internet, Karen Coyle, Library of Congress
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Library of Congress/Archive.org Preservation Project
This article from Linux.com is a great overview of what it takes to run a digitization project with fragile material and across great distance, as the Library of Congress and Archive.org work together on a project to preserve some of … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Government, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Source, Software
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Users 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 meetings. from Coyle’s InFormation and Catalogablog
Posted in Google, Government, Libraries
Tagged Congress, Google, Karen Coyle, Library of Congress
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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, California. The truly interesting thing is that anyone … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Conferences, Google, Government, Libraries
Tagged Andrew Pace, California, Chicago, Congress, Google, Karen Coyle, Karen Markey, Karen Schneider, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Meetings The
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Distance Calculator
Here is a distance calculator that takes the concept a step further than Google Maps or Mapquest… it recognizes location names other than address information. Think in terms of buildings, statues, monuments, etc. Want to see how long of a … Continue reading
Posted in Maps
Tagged Congress, Google, Library of Congress, Lincoln Memorial
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Library Classification Systems
The New York Public Library is changing classification systems for their reference collection. Over the years they have used a unique system developed by their first library director, Dr. John Shaw Billings, appropriately named the Billings System. It hasn’t been … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Online Databases, Search
Tagged Adobe, Book;, classification systems, Congress, Dewey Decimal, first library director, Integrated Library Systems, John Shaw Billings, Library Classification Systems, Library of Congress, Library of Congress System, Online Public Access Catalogs, The New York Public Library, United States
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