LIS/KM Resource

Should the Library of Congress (LC) jettison Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), the longstanding professional taxonomy? That's one of the provocative suggestions in a new report released last month by LC. "The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools," commissioned by LC and written by associate university librarian Karen Calhoun of Cornell University, was making waves weeks earlier, thanks to a critical review of a draft of her paper, written for AFSCME 2910, the LC Professional Guild, by Thomas Mann (author of The Oxford Guide to Library Research). It warned of "serious negative consequences for the capacity of research libraries to promote scholarly research."

Access to the full-text PDF article from the British Computer Society.

"This blog discusses the topics covered in Everything Is Miscellaneous."

A wiki companion to the blog Science Library Pad, about technology for science libraries and publishers.

This post considers explanations for changes in tags, 

This Economist article explores web-based, user-generated content with a focus on health information. 

LibrarianInBlack.net's review of open-source software for libraries

Excerpt from the post reads:  "The library world is beginning a transformation from a single focus on content-storing-and-retrieval to a more varied focus where creating content is also important. This is happening for many reasons… one reason being the ease of digital content creation that web 2.0 tools allow. Librarians, especially librarians hired to do 2.0-ish stuff, are being asked to create content - write blog posts, create screencasts and podcasts, experiment with video, and teach other library staff how to do these things.cerpt from the post: "

Blog post describes two technology concepts for application in libraries including:
"Imagine keyword searching through a book database, only the results come back as a picture of library stacks where the book is highlighted in context, where serendipity and browsing could happen."
and
"Another idea in the physical world would be to create rooms, about the size of a study room, with walls with functionality similar to iPhone screens where one could search either through voice recognition or via wireless keyboards, then walk over to the wall of books, seeing life-size images. Touch a book, and open it with an effect similar to the Internet Archive's OpenLibrary page-turner, but using touch screen technology"

" The prospect of escalating conflicts and tensions around the world, together with the ongoing search for global peace, demand that we create technologies which allow everyone to communicate with everyone else. Voice-in/voice-out (VIVO) talking computers, using online voice-recognition technology, will allow all people to access the world's storehouse of information merely by speaking, listening, and viewing graphics."

instant messaging example for libraries

instant messaging tutorial and wiki for libraries

Post titled, "TagClouds:  What if OPACs allowed a 'Browse by Tags' feature?"