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05 January 2009 16:48

New JSC Chair

And the cataloguing list-serves are hot this afternoon with the news that Margaret Stewart (Library and Archives Canada) is the new Chair of the Joint Steering Committee for RDA. More details, and a lovely picture on the JSC website. Posted in cataloguing, Read More...
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05 January 2009 16:42

New Blog on the Block

… the cataloguing block, that is. Her post today to AUTOCAT alerted me to Heidi Hoerman’s new blog (started this very day). From its statement of purpose (5 Jan): The purpose of this blog is to try to bring clarity to our view of the near Read More...
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19 December 2008 17:28

The Perfect Cataloguer

Melissa Torres has sparked an interesting discussion on AUTOCAT this week, simply by asking “how do you see the skills in the cataloging world changing? What are the skill sets that are needed now as opposed to 5, 10, 15 years ago?” [1] Daniel Read More...
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11 November 2008 22:14

RDA and other Unfulfilled Promises

Well, after over a week of checking the RDA site every day, today we received the announcement on the cataloguing lists that RDA full draft has been delayed (again), until (they say) 17 November: Due to complications in software development, the Committee Read More...
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02 November 2008 21:48

Survey on Authority Control in Libraries

This week on AUTOCAT, Judith Kirk (Western Michigan University Libraries, Kalamazoo) shared the results of her recent informal survey of authority control practice. Although the opt-in sample size was small (12 libraries) and entirely US-based, it included Read More...
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