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Steve Toub | 14 Oct 00:43

Seminar on Social Discovery and the Library Catalog (California in late October)

For folks in California, I wanted to bring your attention to these 
upcoming half-day seminars on social discovery later on this month, 
registration for which closes early next week.

Announcement/Registration: <http://www.califa.org/social_discovery.php>
Agenda: <http://www.califa.org/agenda_final.php>

This seminar isn't a product pitch about features X, Y and Z of better 
OPAC. It's an attempt to take a step back and to stimulate thinking 
among librarians about how the public library can be a focal point of 
community activity. We'll highlight what we've learned in particular 
areas (e.g., health information, virtual reference) and provide a model 
for how the library's online presence can support social discovery and 
deepen community engagement.

     --SET

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Steve Toub
steve <at> bibliocommons.com
(650) 576-9746
Product Manager, BiblioCommons

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Robb Mullins | 10 Oct 20:03

looking for 'issues' ideas related to creating a digital print music collection

Hi,
 
Thanks for everyone's ideas and advice in the past.  These listservs are a great source for ideas.  I end
up researching my way back to ideas that people gave me from these sites.
 
I'm working on another project for a library fundamentals class.
 
The topic?  Collection development.
 
For music.
 
I have a library.  I'm purchasing materials with grant money to create one distinct music collection.

Possible directions...
How to organize it?  How it is represented?
Who will use it and how?
What is the collection itself?  ie Digital?
Anything with metadata?  What metadata does a digitized print music collection use?
Database concerns?
Any special subject languages or subject classification and headings? Esp if there is a difference
between traditional print and digitized materials.
Any special concerns for authority control, esp going from print to digital?
Any special concerns with quality, esp with digital collections and digitized print music?
Any concerns for the future with a digitized print music collection?  You create it... What should I be
concerned about in the future?
 
What I need now are issues related to this music grant collection and its creation.  
 
What I'd really be interested in is someone who has done this and all the things they were thinking about. 
Or maybe I'm looking for a website or case study about collection development, but creating a special,

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Linda Dausch | 9 Oct 23:17

NASIG Continuing Education Committee announcement

Are you planning a conference, workshop, or training session related to serials?  Is there a need for
serials education in your part of the country but no conference or workshop is being held nearby?  The NASIG
Continuing Education Committee would like to help you with:

 *   ideas for programs
 *   speakers in your region

The CEC is charged to provide high quality programs that can be offered on a regional basis to NASIG members
and potential members in all parts of North America.  The content of these programs will be diverse in order
to reach as many segments of the serials community as possible. It will include a range of general and
specific topics as well as theoretical and practical aspects of serials work.  In this ever-more digital
and networked environment, we are particularly interested in encouraging emerging areas of electronic resources.

In addition to suggesting program ideas and speakers, the NASIG CEC welcomes co-sponsorship proposals
from other groups for programs that are within scope and provide funding opportunities.

If you have an idea for a program proposal, please forward the following information to the CEC:

 *   topic of your program or workshop
 *   objectives of the program or workshop
 *   description of the program or workshop
 *   intended audience
 *   location(s) of your program (physical or virtual)
 *   speaker(s)
 *   date (month or season)
 *   duration of the program or workshop
 *   local coordinator(s) of the program
 *   preliminary budget request (including costs and anticipated revenue)

Or if you need help with program ideas please contact the NASIG Continuing Education Committee co-chairs

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Bernhard Eversberg | 9 Oct 09:55

Experimental finding aid for Hathi data

The recently announced Hathi Trust initiative will hopefully
make millions of digitized books searchable and available in new ways.
After Roy Tennant had already made an attempt at providing an
experimental search device for the metadata, here's another one:

http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/hathi/

This one is based on browsing rather than searching, although there
is keyword searching as well.
The most useful browse index is probably the title phrase index.
Just give it a try.
The title display provides a link branching into a GB search.

(BTW, anyone who wants to find out whether or not G. already has a
scan, may issue a direct search for the title, using this pattern:
http://books.google.de/books?as_vt="xyz"
with xyz the title phrase of your choice. Thus, for a known-item
search, GB itself is probably good enough, and more comprehensive
anyhow than Hathi, at present.)

Data are current, but non-latin scripts not included. That makes it
1.72 million titles as of yesterday. (Daily update would be an easy
matter.)

B.Eversberg

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Robb Mullins | 9 Oct 02:32

more library listservs?

These listservs have been great for getting advice.  
 
I'm looking for more.  More expert library ideas and advice.
 
I think I'm looking more toward listservs, places where people are asking questions, where I can ask
questions, the practical working culture of the library field.

I wouldn't mind hearing about favorite blogs either, although I'm really looking for places where I ask
questions and get more ideas.
 
What other library listservs are out there?

Thanks,
RM

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Karen Tschanz | 7 Oct 20:31

Cross-Walk - LC Subject Headings to MeSH Headings

We are interested in identifying one or more cross-walks for conversion of LC Subject Headings to MeSH
subject headings and vice versa. Also, if you have used such a cross-walk, what has been your experience
with it? 

Thanks for your help! kst

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Kathy Miller | 4 Oct 04:50

automated response

I am out of the office Oct. 6 through Oct. 10.

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Ross Singer | 3 Oct 17:32

Jangle version 1.0 draft specification now available for review and comment

Hi everybody.  Pardon the cross-posting.

Jangle, an open specification to apply the Atom Publishing Protocol to
library services and resources, has just released a draft version of a
1.0 release spec.

http://jangle.org/drupal/1_0rev1spec

The goal of Jangle is to provide a very simple and easily
understandable RESTful interface to library data that can be accessed
with common commodity Atom clients.

The draft spec has been released to get feedback on the usefulness and
clarity of the specification and to solicit ideas for how to improve
Jangle for use in actual production environments.  If you have any
opinions, positive or negative; criticisms, constructive or otherwise,
feel free to leave comments.

Grammar and sentence structure could definitely use attention.

For a more in-depth introduction to Jangle, there is an article in the
latest issue of the Code4Lib Journal, "Unveiling Jangle: Untangling
Library Resources and Exposing them through the Atom Publishing
Protocol" available at:  http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/109
(although the API responses have changed since this article was
written, the basic architecture remains the same).

To join the Jangle development process, feel free to join our Google
Group at:  http://groups.google.com/group/jangle-discuss or contribute
to the development at:  http://code.google.com/p/jangle/

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Betsy Simpson | 3 Oct 15:37

Esther J. Piercy Award

Nominations are being accepted for the 2009 Association for Library
Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) awards for professional
achievement

The Esther J. Piercy Award, a $1,500 grant and citation donated by YBP,
Inc., recognizes contributions to library collections and technical
services by a librarian with no more than 10 years of professional
experience who has shown outstanding promise for continuing contribution
and leadership.  Winners will be chosen based on accomplishments related
to technical services and resources in such areas as:  leadership in
professional associations at local, state, regional or national level;
contributions to the development, application or utilization of new or
improved methods, techniques and routines; significant contribution to
professional literature; and conduct of studies or research in the
technical services.

Send nominations, including, a statement giving the reasons for
nomination, the date your nominee entered his or her first professional
position and a resume or narrative career outline to:  Keith Powell,
Chair, Piercy Jury: kpowell <at> uci.edu <blocked::mailto:kpowell <at> uci.edu> 

The deadline for nominations and supporting materials is December 1,
2008.

Betsy Simpson
Chair, Cataloging and Metadata Department
George A. Smathers Libraries
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117004
Gainesville, FL  32608

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Ron Davies | 2 Oct 23:32

Call for presentations: ELAG 2009, 22-24 April 2009, Bratislava

Call for presentations: "New Tools of the Trade", ELAG Conference, 22 – 24 April, 2009, Bratislava,
Slovakia.
Web 2.0, social networking applications, blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, facetted searching, semantic linking
and digital documents are just some of the new developments that are rapidly changing the systems
environment in libraries and what users expect from the systems that they use. To respond to these
challenges, systems librarians and developers need to "re-tool": they need to discover and master new
ways of developing and applying informatics to solve information problems. The ELAG 2009 Conference is
calling for presentations on new tools including:
* innovative software, applications and environments
* emerging formats, protocols and standards or new ways of applying existing standards
* new procedures and techniques

Place: Bratislava, Slovakia
Host: University Library of Bratislava, (Univerzitná knižnica v Bratislave)
Dates: 22 - 24 April, 2009

Deadline for submissions: 24 November, 2008
Address for submission: ron.davies <at> ec.europa.eu or roy.gundersen <at> bibsys.no
Further Information is available on the 2008 conference website at http://library.wur.nl/elag2008/
under "ELAG 2009".
Information for presenters
The emphasis of the ELAG conference is on new developments and practical experience with library
technology rather than academic presentations but relevant user studies are welcome. Presentations at
the ELAG are generally 20-25 minutes in length to allow time for discussion. The working language of the
conference is English.
Submissions should include a 300-word description of the project or topic, references to sites if
available and a short biography of the speaker indicating background, involvement in the project or
activity and public presentation experience. The Programme Committee will review all submissions.
Notification regarding acceptance will be made by early January 2009. Speakers are normally expected to
provide their own travel accommodation costs and the nominal registration fee.

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B.G. Sloan | 2 Oct 01:08

Librarian innovators and library organizations

I thought this new Library Journal article fits in very well with our ongoing thread about libraries and innovation:

Hill, Chrystie, and Meredith Farkas. What We Need: A survey of library innovators exposes pressure points
in the profession—and how to relieve them. Library Journal, October 1, 2008.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6598080.html

An excerpt:

"Each year, Library Journal recognizes 50 or so emerging leaders in the profession as Movers & Shakers.
These library professionals are passionate about the work they do and are moving the profession forward,
often in creative and innovative ways...Some enjoyed and were encouraged by amazing institutional
support and acknowledgement, while others received minimum internal support for their innovative
work. This made us wonder how the entire cohort has been shaped, encouraged, or discouraged by our
institutions. While we tend to be highly self-motivated on the whole, all of us are affected by
organizational culture and management that can either spur us on or deter us. Do Movers & Shakers have
supportive relationships within our institutions? What can organizations do to foster and encourage
creativity and innovation in library service?"

Bernie Sloan
Sora Associates
Bloomington, IN

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