Contents contributed and discussions participated by Jennifer Parsons
Book of Kells Now Free to View Online | Trinity College Library Dublin - 0 views
Vatican Digitizing its Entire Library into 2.8 Petabytes of Data - AppNewser - 0 views
Paris Review - Borrowed Time, Michele Filgate - 0 views
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I went to the exhibit expecting to see shelves of neglected books I’d never heard of; titles long forgotten by the general public, an island of misfit tomes. Instead I immediately noticed some books by household names: Blood and Gold, by Anne Rice; Running Dog, by Don DeLillo; David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens; The Habit of Being, by Flannery O’Connor; and even a Dover Thrift edition of Edith Wharton’s short stories.
The book industry wars continue: First-Sale, DRM, and publisher self-destruction | Bibl... - 0 views
Digital Public Library of America » Blog Archive » Dan Cohen Named Founding E... - 0 views
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At the Center, Cohen has overseen projects ranging from new publishing ventures (PressForward) to online collections (September 11 Digital Archive) to software for scholarship (the popular Zotero research tool).
Innovative Interfaces Integrates All SkyRiver Services and Withdraws Antitrust Lawsuit ... - 0 views
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“With the best interests of the library community in mind, we decided to view a relationship with OCLC as a potential collaboration partner, unclouded by legal issues,”
What is metadata? A Christmas themed exploration. | Information Culture, Scientific Ame... - 1 views
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Broadly speaking, metadata is simply a structured description of something else. The most popular example of metadata comes from the library catalog. Each book has a title, author, call number, publisher, ISBN etc. listed in the online catalog. These elements comprise the book’s metadata, and there are rules to make sure that things are standardized.
Stepping Out of the Library | Walking Paper - 0 views
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Aaron Schmidt recommends occasionally taking a break from "deep thinking about your library" and go on a Service Safari to other places that offer customer service. He recommends a series of questions to ask yourself about your experience as a customer. This in turn can help libraries with evaluating their own services. Other techniques for customer service self-evaluation in this article include: Make a Map: Block out paths created by library users to your services. Think Like a Child (a.k.a."5 Whys"): Figuring out root causes of problems by taking a single statement of a problem and asking "why" five times; an example is given.
NASA Presents "The Earth as Art" in a Free eBook and Free iPad App | Open Culture - 0 views
The Wrong War Over eBooks: Publishers Vs. Libraries - Forbes - 0 views
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For publishers, the library will be the showroom of the future. Ensuring that libraries have continuing access to published titles gives them a chance to meet this role, but an important obstacle remains: how eBooks are obtained by libraries.
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This article is the first of a series of two. The author describes how they typical arguments on both sides of the ebook debate, from publishers and libraries, do not actually work, since they have their basis in older models of sales and library use of physical items. Since ebooks are leased, not actually sold, the author suggests a pay-by-circulation model, since it is easier to track and will be less risky for libraries. This model would have to be done carefully, or it may backfire. It certainly is more fair, but I wonder how much of the electronic publishing industry remains afloat from selling packages-- that is, large sets of ebooks that have appeal because, among their numbers, they do have high-demand titles. A pay-by-circulation model could mean that libraries can license individual titles from publishers, completely bypassing unknown ebooks that need libraries for exposure.
Ebooks and the Candlemaker's Petition | Peer to Peer Review - 0 views
The Bedbug Bunk: How the New York Times Used Fear and Misinformation to Spread Public L... - 0 views
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Brooke Borel, author of the forthcoming book Suck: The Tale of the Bed Bug, has also responded to Saint Louis’s article. She points out that Saint Young is outright wrong in declaring that bedbugs have only just “discovered a new way to hitchhike” through books. “This is an ancient pest, and it has been doing its thing for at least thousands of years. Probably far, far longer.” She also reiterates what entomologists have been telling me over the past two days. The risk is low. “You aren’t very likely to pick up bed bugs in these types of public spaces. The bugs are far more highly concentrated in residences, where they can breed and multiply in close proximity to their food source.”
Wikidata - 0 views
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Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in all languages for which there are Wikimedia projects
A "print" format limit in a MARC-based catalog | Bibliographic Wilderness - 0 views
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What this blog post is about: How do you figure out if a bib is “print” or not from a MARC record?
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The problem is that the origins of AACR2-MARC sort of assume print as a default, there’s no leader bytes or 007 or 008 code for ‘print’, print is sort of the absence of anything else.
Coyle's InFormation: Is Linked Data the Answer? - 0 views
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What this means for us in libraries is that we shouldn't be thinking that linked data will replace bibliographic data. It will encode the aspects of bibliographic data that will give us the most and the best links.