Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Are you are a cataloger? (This might be of interest.) Do you know a cataloger? (Please share this post.) From the Announcement: Barbara Tillett, chief of the Library’s Policy and Standards Division, said “To help users make the most of the new product enhancements, the Library of Congress staff has been busy creating an array [...]
Broken Symmetry (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Geanakoplos and Farmer observe: What is still largely lacking is an empirical foundation on which to build an evolutionary theory. This ultimately depends on developing a taxonomy of real nancial strategies together with a database of studies of nancial ecologies as they change through time. It's out there. The right...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
More than 50 international experts in endangered languages will convene at the University of Utah Nov. 12-14 to take the first step in cataloging endangered and dying languages in a comprehensive online database.
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
From the News Release: The Library of Congress is releasing today the results of its analysis of the creation and distribution of bibliographic data in U.S. and Canadian libraries. The Library commissioned R2 Consulting LLC of Contoocook, N.H., to search and describe the current marketplace for cataloging records in the MARC format, with primary focus on the [...]
LisNews (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
A new company called SkyRiver has launched a bibliographic utility, directly challenging long-dominant OCLC. Over the last 18 years, strategic acquisitions by OCLC have narrowed competition, but SkyRiver—founded by Jerry Kline, the owner and co-founder of Innovative Interfaces—aims to expand the market and offer an alternative bibliographic utility for cataloging that could save libraries...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
From the Announcement: The Cataloging Section of the National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce the availability of an e-learning course called Fundamentals of the NLM Classification. It is available as a link from the Cataloging Section homepage, as well as the Distance Education page. The course is a free set of modules and interactive [...]
Bill Totten's Weblog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
by John Michael Greer The Archdruid Report (September 30 2009) Druid perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial society To mention money and metaphysics in the same sentence, as I did at the close of last week's post, is to invite any number of misunderstandings. The hoary habit of thinking that walls off philosophical questions in a ghetto of abstractions apart from the world of...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
We’re looking at a new form of media (assuming it catches on) that librarians will likely have to catalog. We will catalog as a book? A Video? Audio? Or perhaps we will have to come up with specific cataloging rules for hybrid books. From the Article: …in the age of the iPhone, Kindle and YouTube, the notion [...]
The Archdruid Report (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
To mention money and metaphysics in the same sentence, as I did at the close of last week’s post, is to invite any number of misunderstandings. The hoary habit of thinking that walls off philosophical questions in a ghetto of abstractions apart from the world of ordinary life gets in the way of clarity here as so often, but there’s an even more basic problem: most people these days have...
Nature (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Faced with the bewildering diversity of nature, humans have long attempted to classify it. In her personal and readable perspective on taxonomy, Carol Yoon argues that the basic instinct to recognize natural groups has gradually been replaced by an increased rationality.Yoon explores the formative
The Sagely Wisdom of a British Eccentric (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
It concerns zebras. Mountain Zebras to be precise, & it's a question of taxonomy. As far as zoology is concerned I am what is known as a splitter. There are lumpers & splitters, lumpers group animals together as species, splitters seperate them. For example, in the olden days of zoology species were often considered as seperate due to morphological variations or geographical seperation.Most...
Uncertain Principles (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Alternate title: Notes Toward a Taxonomy of Bad Meetings. The Meta-Meeting : Your organization faces problems X, Y, and Z. Therefore, you are planning an all-day workshop on addressing X, Y, and Z. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: To have a meeting about how to organize the workshop to address X, Y, and Z, without talking about how to address X, Y, and Z. The Required-By-Statute Meeting...
Simostronomy (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Blogger, Emily Lakdawalla, at the Planetary Society Blog has done a fantastic job of pulling together a collection of astronomy and space offerings for this week's Carnival of Space #119 . There are two variable star related pieces in this week's Carnival. Variable by Nature from a new friend and AAVSO member "AstroSwanny", and the Simostronomy piece on a gorgeous astrophoto from John Chumak,...
365 Days Of Trash (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Finnaly getting around to posting this. A reader sent in a link to her cool blog called The Daily Ocean . For 365 days she is picking up all trash she finds on the beach and cataloging it. Talk about an eye opener! Very cool. dave
Information Today (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Special Libraries Association (SLA; www.sla.org) announced the formation of a new professional interest division that will focus on issues related to planning, creating, maintaining, and using taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, authority files, and other controlled vocabularies and information structures. The Taxonomy Division of SLA will provide information professionals interested in these topics...
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gorgoroth | 05/24/2008
As off-the-mainstream jazz sinks deeper into a niche, it's more difficult to track down all of the great improvisers in America-- let alone the rest of the world, where a glance at the hatArt or Leo Records catalogs turns up dozens of new and unfamiliar names. So I was pleased to discover the work of Mark O'Leary, a guitarist based in Cork, Ireland-- and was even more surprised to learn he'd worked
gumir | 04/18/2008
April, 18, 2008 - new version of Free Museum Cataloging Software Released. A new version (4.7) of Museolog, the UNESCO-supported multilingual software for cataloguing museum collections has been released; the software is available at no cost through SourceForge, a global leader in free and open source software (FOSS). Museolog was developed by museum specialists in collaboration with FOSS developers
steffrson | 04/15/2008
Home Schooling Catalog: Your children’s education is very essential for molding and shaping them into outstanding individuals and will partly determine their success and survival in this modern day and age. Necessary tools and resources will help parents, who believe that they are their children’s best educators, educate their kids for brilliance and excellence.
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