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Sharla Lair

Librarians, Expertise, and the Social Transcript « Sense & Reference - 0 views

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    A really interesting way to define librarianship. He says that librarians provide expertise in making accessible, navigating and making sense of the social transcript. Do you agree?
Jennifer Parsons

OverDrive alternative: How a savvy Colorado library system owns e-books for real, saves... - 0 views

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    A heartening story about how the libraries of Douglas County, CO are bucking the current trend of leasing music from services like OverDrive.  As a result, they negotiate directly with publishers, actually own their electronic books, and are able to display said electronic books directly in their catalog, not just in a ebook-only ghetto (a source of irritation to me).  The author suggests this could start a new trend that might culminate in a loosely-organized, nation-wide system that allows smaller libraries to benefit from the expertise and work from larger systems with more resources, like Douglas County.
Jennifer Parsons

The Harvard Library Innovation Lab » Quality Rules - 0 views

  • My project work at the Lab has time and again shown the crucial importance not simply of cataloged records, but of cataloged records created to a high standard.
  • On the bibliographic side, every new Library of Congress subject heading a cataloger adds to a record creates a rich set of connective possibilities downstream for people like me.
  • But also: the expertise which catalogers bring to the task of comprehensive bibliographic description has proven crucial to me as a reference resource in my work of designing software to harvest and process bibliographic information
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    On the heels of our keynote speaker, whose presentation has been weighing on my mind, this makes me worry that what will cause things to be lost is not things simply not being updated, but also things not being findable-- if some information doesn't have any sort of access point, it may as well not exist.
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