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Banned Book Week
I was amazed and embarrassed to remember this late in the game that this is Banned Book Week. Luckily the ALA has full documentation of what’s on the ‘banned list’, what’s on the merely ‘challenged’ list, and whatever else you need. There’s lots more out there but these links should get you started. Now read,
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“All of It”
I’ve been invited to write a few paragraphs about some cool electronic resource for the next edition of the NYAM Newsletter. And unhappily, I have a bit of a problem with that. Granted, I have the time and the talent and the motivation, but the problem persists and it’s been there for as far back
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Cataloging 9/11
It’s been a busy week (last week, I mean). Article Linker works for the databases we’ve linked to it (so far, Ebsco, Ovid, Gale), and we’re jumping through all kinds of hoops working on linking it to PubMed. You have a choice–use a script to build a prepopulated ILL form on your server and access
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Electoral-Vote.com
From Andy’s website: "This terrific site is running again. It has tons of election data (click successively on all the icons below the map to see what is there) and a "nonpartisan" (but enlightened) blog about the state of the mid-term elections. Click on the "Previous report" link at the top of the page to
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Hampton U. and Literary NY
So, according to this email, maybe Hampton U. isn’t dissolving their cataloging department after all (thank you nice people at Kent State for this): "I have received from a number of colleagues a copy of announcement of theclosing of the Technical Service department of the Harvey Library at Hampton University . Harvey Library has no
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Osmosing Data and Leaky Cell Phones
In 1990 I found a wacky (and vaguely depressing) manga anthology by Joji Manabe (whose work I love) called "Dora." One of the stories in it (actually the first few pages of one of the stories in it) contained the germ of an idea I eventually turned into a short story called "Norma" (no relation
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Stop the War on Metadata
Here’s an article written by Jeffery Beall for Library Journal (aka the general public), titled “Stop the War on Metadata.” Think of it as a counter to the news about Hampton University. (Thanks to Margaret Mauer of Kunt State for the link.) Excellent reading. Enjoy!
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Cataloging Katrina 1 Year Later
As you know if you’ve been listening to the radio or watching the tube or glancing at the newspapers this morning, it’s been one year (as of yesterday) since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita smashed life, limb, and property on the Gulf Coast. Mayne people are doing many things to remember this tragedy–I for one, can
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The Publisher Liked It!
My article on NYAM’s Grey Lit Report has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries! (Woot for me! Woot, I say!) This will be the first library-based article I’ve ever gotten in print, and I’m really looking forward to it. More as events unfold. And second . . .
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Good News, Bad News
First, the good news: Lily the NYAM Special Projects Librarian has let it be known that the presentations from the 2006 August RLG Members Forum are now available as MP3 files. The talks include The Future of MARC by Bill Moen and Sally McCallum, and and topics such as Folksonomies, visual resource cataloging, and describing