Today I’ve released an updated version of our popular Aussie Library Blogs page. The page is now built dynamically created using a WordPress plugin that I’ve created with the assistance of the other THALI members. This new way of managing the list of Aussie Library Blogs is exciting in a number of ways including:
It is [...]
Peter Morville who blogs at Findability.org is writing a new book on search patterns. He has uploaded screenshots illustrating different types of search patterns to Flickr. These are worth taking a look at, and he invites you to add comments, suggestions and tags to the images and to suggest other patterns of searching.
Read Morville’s post [...]
Alexis Madrigal at Wired Science reports that Google will start hosting terabytes of open source research data at http://research.google.com. The storage will be free to scientists and freely accessible to all. The project is called Palimpsest and one of the planned datasets is the Hubble Space telescope data - all 120 terabytes.
Google to Host Terabytes [...]
Commoncraft have released Online photosharing in Plain English . Enjoy.
I have just listened to Karen Calhoun’s presentation to the OCLC Members’ Council October meeting. At the same time I clicked through her presentation.
Her presentation, WorldCat and the future of bibliographic control (Karen Calhoun, Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services, OCLC), included audience participation. They were given electronic devices to record their answers to some questions [...]
Over at Techcrunch, Duncan Riley reports that the Australian Government has launched a consultation paper on whether the Australian Government ought to have a consultation blog.
Duncan thinks that this is ironic - a consultation paper for a consultation blog - the comments argue the case from both angles.
Australian Government Proves Why Blogging Is Best [...]
Now available from Monash University’s research repository, are the results from Jenny Warren’s survey of directors on their thoughts about where cataloguing is heading.
Warren surveyed directors of information resources departments in Australian and New Zealand libraries on how they see cataloguing fitting within the resource discovery frameworks of their libraries. 68 directors completed the survey which focussed [...]
Here’s a handy blog for cataloguers, looking to add a little humour to the task of fixing typographic errors in our databases. “Typo of the day for librarians” offers up a commonly found typo in catalogue records each working day. It’s witty and includes some cute illustrations.
“We are a group of librarians from all over the [...]
More Commoncraft goodness.
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