tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56860893426771464772024-03-05T00:46:52.987-08:00Metadata Librarian ExperienceExploring Taxonomy & Digital Library Starts From HereJin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-56361621702848694232011-03-21T17:41:00.000-07:002011-04-12T18:22:24.418-07:00What Are Asian Special Libraries Doing?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqlD-Za00eIho1-WyI6g5cvTployNpqlieDfwyHc0vlyZPuxIGgT-mNqipBos7BUJtAUMdm8IcvoZxx8S5e7vgBNvHrwhfw5Zs4B3k_gB5uEPpOqCqwqjNINnt-P23w1W60AhkdX1GzNcB/s1600/P2091851.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqlD-Za00eIho1-WyI6g5cvTployNpqlieDfwyHc0vlyZPuxIGgT-mNqipBos7BUJtAUMdm8IcvoZxx8S5e7vgBNvHrwhfw5Zs4B3k_gB5uEPpOqCqwqjNINnt-P23w1W60AhkdX1GzNcB/s320/P2091851.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594872339333652370" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiapHvfrtvhT3_7w17tLMTZ0kP3tJfGOu6mvDbLN_Gt7skWyJnAVVF6dY57xDhAMchpwlGdRnq_9I4y1gnQ3SvfUpIZAlYcBmG-F3nej8J3WQMCXUzzQzHIRW7VE9mEWdWwsQkkWkYMLjXm/s1600/P2101862.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiapHvfrtvhT3_7w17tLMTZ0kP3tJfGOu6mvDbLN_Gt7skWyJnAVVF6dY57xDhAMchpwlGdRnq_9I4y1gnQ3SvfUpIZAlYcBmG-F3nej8J3WQMCXUzzQzHIRW7VE9mEWdWwsQkkWkYMLjXm/s320/P2101862.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594872184175471266" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt1vq9slxf1WYt5rh64xpwEdxfWfeODvTewZ5nlk-Iu3DC-vv23RX1oPzHg4ukm3pJuuG7zJS5wRp1ESZFj7MAWltiK3U6JNX2KDpYpcZevZ2u3CRbXb5VPz_6POY16L8wnUzbxpqhXt15/s1600/P2111877.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt1vq9slxf1WYt5rh64xpwEdxfWfeODvTewZ5nlk-Iu3DC-vv23RX1oPzHg4ukm3pJuuG7zJS5wRp1ESZFj7MAWltiK3U6JNX2KDpYpcZevZ2u3CRbXb5VPz_6POY16L8wnUzbxpqhXt15/s320/P2111877.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594872047328955842" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoWPxHaTreicQiMlorNlu3sS1iffe_uknALfdXYMuc7KwpgRDUJ95jV74SaOQMUCPWIm4TxXDrPm2IAm4fUst0hZER40WA2knDA97070nSY-fp-fImGwWuUPZ_4hFLzBrume9TMxtF9TC_/s1600/P2091856.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoWPxHaTreicQiMlorNlu3sS1iffe_uknALfdXYMuc7KwpgRDUJ95jV74SaOQMUCPWIm4TxXDrPm2IAm4fUst0hZER40WA2knDA97070nSY-fp-fImGwWuUPZ_4hFLzBrume9TMxtF9TC_/s320/P2091856.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594871911049081538" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAeTS9BV6R1hVH3Lstc9W3eg0uG5tOtOxdcdyvpHkz3pUNpKlAHnWYjfadouUtrB3J3lm2Nwo_8F6S3DHR8YzdF-TicYh-m2ImmhVH_MiRr-6amOqhyphenhyphenO2DtW6UGcmjJ9jKcHomGVPJh0SL/s1600/P2111917.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAeTS9BV6R1hVH3Lstc9W3eg0uG5tOtOxdcdyvpHkz3pUNpKlAHnWYjfadouUtrB3J3lm2Nwo_8F6S3DHR8YzdF-TicYh-m2ImmhVH_MiRr-6amOqhyphenhyphenO2DtW6UGcmjJ9jKcHomGVPJh0SL/s320/P2111917.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594871194630606322" border="0" /></a><br />The Second International Conference of Asian Special Libraries (ICoASL) was held in Tokyo, Japan on Feb. 10-12, 2011. The conference theme was "Building User Trust: The Key to special libraries renaissance in the digital era." 170 delegates from the United States, China, Japan, India, Singapore, Korea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Iran and Indonesia attended the conference.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />This was a great opportunity for librarians and information professionals all over the world to communicate, share and learn from each other. Anne Caputo the 2010 SLA president gave a keynote talk "Living in the new normal: global trends all knowledge professionals should understand." Anne is Executive Director of Dow Jones' Learning & Information Professional Programs. Her talk focused on 6 new trends of the information world-globalization, distressed economies, disinter-mediation, invasion of millennials, disruptive technologies and condensed competition. Librarians need to explore the meaning of these global trends and ways that can prepare us to advance our roles and strategic importance within our organizations.<br /><br />Dr. Xiaolin Zhang, the director of the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Science, shared how the national library has transformed its services and its organizational make-up into a user-based, problem-solving-driven, customized, knowledge-based service cloud. In order to strengthening its collaborative resource systems and integrated network-based service systems, the national library remodeled users services into "house-librarian" mechanism embedded into research frontlines and hard-binding "team information analyst" system embedded into R&D decision making processes, together with a re-shift into development of user-side information systems. These reformations enable the library to respond to researchers' requests promptly.<br /><br />From the perspective of user satisfaction, Jin Xiu Guo, a Metadata Librarian at Washington College, Maryland, USA presented a research on geomatics faculty's research behavior and library use at Wuhan University, China. The survey disclosed that the library was still the major source of professional document gathering. The geomatics faculty preferred electronic journals and international conference proceedings in their teaching and research. The survey results also gave suggestions on how to improve the collection development to better serve geomatics faculty.<br /><br />Xin Li, a Assistant University Librarian for Strategic Initiatives at Cornell University also demonstrated how Cornell University Libraries established international partnership as a solution for meeting user needs.<br /><br />The conference published the proceedings on CD-ROM, and will make all proceedings free available on ICoASL 2011 website.<br /></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-4919237334663231672010-09-20T12:30:00.000-07:002010-09-20T14:19:51.304-07:00CALA 21st Century Librarian Seminar Series, Shanxi University III<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9V0_WZa_jeF6e1cZl4ujspS3Krcnjg2J5XF8SK_i85Kn0gZTrX6Y5VhQCjkKIEwTe2Mieohmb8F-vOvUom_ylxBzutmmdJfO-0eNSfG2b36KBKbaOHkTYDYSGTsXHiLyD9M_Tr4-ho5py/s1600/DSC_0223.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9V0_WZa_jeF6e1cZl4ujspS3Krcnjg2J5XF8SK_i85Kn0gZTrX6Y5VhQCjkKIEwTe2Mieohmb8F-vOvUom_ylxBzutmmdJfO-0eNSfG2b36KBKbaOHkTYDYSGTsXHiLyD9M_Tr4-ho5py/s320/DSC_0223.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519108437604438434" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnhdQI5btytKY_h58dn7IuIqw_Acanu2AIuFJzH-_-wUOZ04_UWfmID1wkXqmq0BdT1eh9EEi8YwaCfumXyqpmC66rQahJy2aSj8q2qkwWMoQ8NcfR99FwVgrKvupzVdZfojYXlEzt-R0P/s1600/DSC_0014.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnhdQI5btytKY_h58dn7IuIqw_Acanu2AIuFJzH-_-wUOZ04_UWfmID1wkXqmq0BdT1eh9EEi8YwaCfumXyqpmC66rQahJy2aSj8q2qkwWMoQ8NcfR99FwVgrKvupzVdZfojYXlEzt-R0P/s320/DSC_0014.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519108334171823186" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXHEjJhpboIbXtF9sM6rjx__1RpAh-YxqmJQIdjg8CnoerhOqKSjs-lSrFulfeiKFTUcfZu9pjnwOxPPJcg_Y-A1zwwOldZ3beIXzwOxmA30Mc-mFzsU8x1GDVmLBvFFJjN4PA2cw178u-/s1600/DSC_0002.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXHEjJhpboIbXtF9sM6rjx__1RpAh-YxqmJQIdjg8CnoerhOqKSjs-lSrFulfeiKFTUcfZu9pjnwOxPPJcg_Y-A1zwwOldZ3beIXzwOxmA30Mc-mFzsU8x1GDVmLBvFFJjN4PA2cw178u-/s320/DSC_0002.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519108109750096882" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Many database and ILS vendors have made their products available on mobile devices, such as EBSCOhost, WilsonWeb, IEEEXplore, WorldCat, SerialsSolution Summon, Innovative AirPac, and RefWorks have provided mobile search interface. Libraries try to offer easier access to information at the tip of user's finger. The participants have shown a great interest in the application of mobile technology in libraries.<br /><br />Many participants commented that their libraries also face the challenge of managing diversified resources and try to keep the balance of print and electronic resources. In the USA, the collection development is based on curriculum and program requirements, as well as user needs. Each library has its own policy to acquire print and electronic resources. There is no standard to evaluate the appropriate proportion of different types of collections. But we noticed that ACRL started to collect data of new e-books and e-theses in digital repository a few years ago. So we suggested that libraries in China should share resources in a certain way to relieve the burden of fund shortness. For instance, the California state universities share database subscription fees among the libraries in the state system with appropriate proportion of money based on the potential users at each school. For small libraries, a consortium will be the group to join and share those skyrocketing journal prices.<br /><br />Chinese librarians were also eager to know about library fundraising. Most libraries are funded by the central government through their parent institutions. However, most libraries want to explore new projects, for example, digitizing a puppetry collection. A library has to find a way to initiate the project. While library fundraising is very common in the USA, especially for independent schools. Our American colleague gave a great talk on this topic and answered their questions on how to possibly raise money for their projects.<br /><br />Three-days forum is never enough for those young Chinese professionals to seek solutions for their work or satisfy their thirst for knowledge, but it is a good start. With the development of new technology, scholarly communication finds its way across countries. People learn from each other when they start to communicate, this is what we are doing now and what we will do in the future.Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-66819600653831458452010-08-30T12:00:00.000-07:002010-08-30T13:18:45.159-07:00CALA 21st Century Librarian Seminar Series, Shanxi University II<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNBukakUsto3aQk8l9AEhDonJDkFceFJBrjYg7UpDx8XRLFsql22jC0BHjpPoUnXtIfzP8otP71oxHmGYuVtoLeprK8OnpowLk6hAwBAEIhxyWrBKrdf8qr3i8DK7TmPNacH8ytg7tpLRK/s1600/DSC_0183.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNBukakUsto3aQk8l9AEhDonJDkFceFJBrjYg7UpDx8XRLFsql22jC0BHjpPoUnXtIfzP8otP71oxHmGYuVtoLeprK8OnpowLk6hAwBAEIhxyWrBKrdf8qr3i8DK7TmPNacH8ytg7tpLRK/s320/DSC_0183.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511296534465417490" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDgnsmPfxkj5z14lGua4O4-Uo4usASl8xt8IgJXBzdyHfxqOmMrhXDdQx7LGJRL1chdzmIXwHhKqsrXoh9-nxLQtTreMB-Vu14Z8OQVRJeqnjOJhyphenhyphen4TNEWLf01OvEpF5ZqFe1iAH-3fOxs/s1600/DSC_0154.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDgnsmPfxkj5z14lGua4O4-Uo4usASl8xt8IgJXBzdyHfxqOmMrhXDdQx7LGJRL1chdzmIXwHhKqsrXoh9-nxLQtTreMB-Vu14Z8OQVRJeqnjOJhyphenhyphen4TNEWLf01OvEpF5ZqFe1iAH-3fOxs/s320/DSC_0154.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511295906027263634" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0B7rx1ZEgHZJ_PQKZb00p0g7xR8RO6Sgxtm8UXd0FBChJ6XjXHwZrjJ9zHOGrFSez1aMtBju4UCYv_ZvoL7W_LSRUDXSlyZ-OTey85f62Aj7-wvlVZMjCHL6QoFmoMAYDM2UzXQZ4CKX-/s1600/DSC_0181.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0B7rx1ZEgHZJ_PQKZb00p0g7xR8RO6Sgxtm8UXd0FBChJ6XjXHwZrjJ9zHOGrFSez1aMtBju4UCYv_ZvoL7W_LSRUDXSlyZ-OTey85f62Aj7-wvlVZMjCHL6QoFmoMAYDM2UzXQZ4CKX-/s320/DSC_0181.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511295787842209730" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I was so surprised to see many young librarians and library directors in the seminar. It is normal to see many senior librarians in the United States, but, definitely, not in China. Once you were in that atmosphere, you would be deeply moved by those young professionals' curiosities.<br /><br />Young Chinese librarians are specially interested in emerging technologies, new library services and electronic collection development. Only state university libraries have developed institutional repositories, and also run into the challenge of recruiting high quality contents. Some science librarians offer patent search to their senior undergraduate and graduate students, but not intensively and systematically teach patent search skills. It was unexpected to get a few good questions on patent search, e.g. how to use patent classification to search and how scientific information literacy is taught in the USA.<br /><br />Currently, there four billions mobile subscribers in the world and two-thirds of them live in the developing countries. China is a huge market for mobile service. Mobile computing is a hot topic, although the service hasn't been offered to students in China yet. My American colleague gave a great overview on the application of mobile computing in American academic libraries. Young Chinese librarians were so excited about the current practices in the USA, such as, provide library services through mobile devices; access e-resources via iphone, smartphone and ipad.<br /></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-24899856297947029942010-08-09T18:05:00.001-07:002010-08-10T18:25:16.270-07:00CALA 21st Century Librarian Seminar Series, Shanxi University I<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZnCLBFiILlLYVzavHtTCxXucQSUfP8kCilBomIIOV9fmt1zbPcwjgE8ea0LdAe15o8wM7D2VndgYsAz9v4WMANCA2Pu72PEf-1riPnz7xvZWeV7icQj_yqMRsXUwXef5gGVuPKEyam4F/s1600/P5231363.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZnCLBFiILlLYVzavHtTCxXucQSUfP8kCilBomIIOV9fmt1zbPcwjgE8ea0LdAe15o8wM7D2VndgYsAz9v4WMANCA2Pu72PEf-1riPnz7xvZWeV7icQj_yqMRsXUwXef5gGVuPKEyam4F/s320/P5231363.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503956084949204002" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEityx2-Le9TjLrbu7_8sTM1U7-AUZB_aQp9mzi4rzl71cJBxXaOFvCqQgqmOtKpmO-4Ki2IRzVeSwKdc1QTI6_NdBIoyJEhA2EA1JlR9EKT9SkMOII3ruBwdJGjLVkSaczorp_HlbQTywLG/s1600/P5251413.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEityx2-Le9TjLrbu7_8sTM1U7-AUZB_aQp9mzi4rzl71cJBxXaOFvCqQgqmOtKpmO-4Ki2IRzVeSwKdc1QTI6_NdBIoyJEhA2EA1JlR9EKT9SkMOII3ruBwdJGjLVkSaczorp_HlbQTywLG/s320/P5251413.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503956075411504306" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8GFT0OHBRg3PIxu_hFz6qbdsPz2EunAGRCkWnzS_ZIIT1v_87AbuNhLBEL-gagmwrAU0cRVMku8uDJ1pviodU1ZNXJ5HrAlwB6pTIuHTI-odG8LDaKRRgEz14HI-4JQN42e7jgMFIgRo/s1600/P5281569.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8GFT0OHBRg3PIxu_hFz6qbdsPz2EunAGRCkWnzS_ZIIT1v_87AbuNhLBEL-gagmwrAU0cRVMku8uDJ1pviodU1ZNXJ5HrAlwB6pTIuHTI-odG8LDaKRRgEz14HI-4JQN42e7jgMFIgRo/s320/P5281569.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503956067590271394" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Chinese American Librarians Association and Shanxi University held the seminar at Shanxi University on May 24-26 2010. In an effort to address emerging issues in the 21st century libraries, speakers introduced their best practices and discussed the most appropriate solutions for these issues.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />The team was made up of experienced librarians from seven different public and private academic libraries in the United States including the president of American Library Association, Dr. Camila Alire. Topics included current trends in American academic libraries, digital libraries, cooperative collection development, information literacy and electronic resources management. Librarians and library directors from Dalian, Hangzhou, Beijing, Qingdao, Taiyuan etc. participated the forum.<br /><br /></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-25838597338857451122010-07-25T08:58:00.000-07:002010-07-25T10:23:16.281-07:00Scholarly Communication<div style="text-align: justify;">I haven't been in my blog for a while. My travel abroad and several projects have taken most of my time. On one side, I feel so grateful to those who consistently read my blog and give me suggestions; on the other side, I need to figure out how to best communicate with readers and expand what we are interested as an information professional, as well as a librarian.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I will talk about my recent China trip and scholarly communication with young Chinese academic librarians in my next few sessions. Hopefully, my experience can lead us to think about how librarians do things differently in U.S. and China.<br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"></div><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-36568581320837484932009-11-30T18:19:00.000-08:002009-12-07T18:46:36.123-08:00Who Should Create Metadata for Online Submissions in DSpace II?<div style="text-align: justify;">What happens at small academic/research libraries? At some libraries, metadata librarians or archivists create metadata for a variety of collections if metadata standards have been established. However, this is not only a huge amount of work, but also needs professionals to do the job. Today, to facilitate metadata creation, metadata librarians are seeking for batch loading or auto-generated metadata to provide access to digital contents with the benefit of technologies. This is an emerging challenge for Metadata or Digital Initiative Librarians. When libraries migrate a collection to a new platform, batch loading metadata for the collection is more efficient and effective, especially if the collection is not created from the scratch. This also needs metadata librarians to map metadata in one system to those in another with their expertise.<br /><br />Some people think the library can use students or paraprofessionals to do the job. I would say Yes and No. As you might notice, the purpose of metadata creation is to let users easily find the information they need. If a person doesn't understand the philosophy of the information retrieval, how can he/she know to create the right access for users? However, if metadata librarians can set up some procedures, teach them some of the processes, then they would be a great help to metadata librarians. For instance, if metadata librarians set up batch loading form, students or paraprofessionals will prepare the basic metadata form first, then metadata librarians can work on the form and batch load metadata into DSpace.<br /><br />Therefore, there is no rules for this. Librarians should allocate tasks with the collaboration of the personnel in the libraries. The bottom line is to facilitate metadata creation for digital collections.<br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"></div><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-60261653697271995332009-11-17T08:46:00.000-08:002009-11-17T12:45:45.107-08:00Who Should Create Metadata for Online Submissions in DSpace I?<div style="text-align: justify;">Since the Miller Library started to deposit seniors theses in the college digital repository DSpace in 2007, librarians have been wondering who is the appropriate person to create metadata for theses. Ideally, metadata librarians can do this with best knowledge they have. However, most submitted theses need original cataloging. Usually, there is only one metadata /cataloging librarian in a small academic or research library to do this type of original work. The amount of electronic theses received by the library each year is far beyond what a metadata librarian can handle in a timely manner. Especially, the metadata librarian has to design metadata models for different types of electronic collections, and facilitate access for users to easily search information in Dspace. So what are the possible solutions?<br /><br />At large university libraries, students submit theses and dissertations online. In this submission process, a senior needs to create descriptive metadata for his own work, such as title, author, keywords, abstract, table of contents etc. After the student submits his/her thesis, the metadata librarian will review the submission. If the thesis passes the review, the librarian will publish it right away. If the metadata librarian finds out inappropriate metadata in the submission, s/he will not publish it until errors are fixed.<br /></div><br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-23723510570011243272009-08-31T17:26:00.000-07:002009-08-31T18:14:37.819-07:00Building an Institutional Repository for Your Instutution<div style="text-align: justify;">Institutional repositories (IRs) have been successfully populated at higher education institutions, where users not only get open access to those scholarly publications, but also create collections. It opens the door to share research information within or beyond the community. IRs are also extremely useful at research companies.<br /><br />Research companies could set up different communities to share information at different levels. This will reduce duplicate paperwork, such as lab reports, lab records and datasheet. It also minimize the requests for the same information, and leads to a green business environment. The easily customized workflow could be designed to facilate researchers to deposit thier data in a moment. IRs could also serve as a platform for record management. The descriptive metadata and administrative metadata can be shared or transferred as a part of management records.<br /><br />Currently, some open source software, such as DSpace, Greenstone, Fedora, are widely used at academic libraries. The other commercial products, such as CONTENTdm and Inmagic Presto, are also used in business environment. How to create an institutional repository and promote it in your community? The article, <a href="http://www.cala-web.org/files/ops/OPSJune09No4.pdf">Building an Instutional Repository at a Liberal Arts College</a>, might give you some thoughts and inspiration.<br /></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-2712657980335316162009-04-05T18:19:00.000-07:002009-04-05T19:05:23.630-07:00Metadata Workshop on NIS Camp in June 2009<div style="text-align: justify;">Self-created digital collection has become an effective means for libraries to create knowledge, preserve and share archival and research information. In order to provide easy online access to these research materials for users, librarians and information professionals use metadata to organize and describe information, and make these resources online searchable. H<span style="font-weight: bold;">ow to create effective metadata for digital collections?</span> <a href="http://offices.washcoll.edu/millerlibrary/faculty_jinxiuguo.php">Jin Xiu Guo</a> will offer a workshop on <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">NITLE Information Services Camp</span> at Smith College on June 4, 2009. This workshop is for everyone who wants to know about metadata and likes to explore knowlege management in digital age. People who are interested in the workshop could visit <a href="http://campnis.blog.nitle.org/2009/02/02/featured-instructor-jin-guo-washington-college/">NIS Camp</a>.<br /></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-57337043162531066062009-03-14T08:52:00.000-07:002009-03-14T09:47:14.675-07:00Thesauri for Information Retrieval Part. 1<div style="text-align: justify;">Thesauri have been widely used in information retrieval in recent years. They are built in software to facilitate users to retrieve information on websites or content management systems. Currently, law firms and consultant companies have integrated thesauri into their websites. Thesauri could be also used to automatically index contents in databases. Most commercial databases all have thesauri to help users increase search effectiveness, such as STN, WilsonWeb. However, there are no standards for current thesauri developers to adopt or compose concepts consistently. The same concept could be displayed differently in different thesauri for different purposes. For example, "knowledge management software" could be splitted into "knowledge", "management" and "software"; it could be also broken down to "Knowledge management" and "software". The first case could happen in a general thesaurus, second one might possibly happen in a thesaurus of Information Science. People who want to integrate the above thesauri into their software will ask a question, which one is more appropriate for my system?<br /><br />Except for specific purposes, most thesauri should be interoperable with software to maximize the benefit of thesauri to certain extent regardless of different domains. Sometimes, it even takes longer to customize a thesaurus for local systems than develop a thesaurus from scratch. In another word, how we could let current content management systems easily adopt available thesauri? We need a standard to standardize the way we create concepts in thesauri.<br /></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-77877457728570515212009-01-28T18:25:00.000-08:002009-01-28T19:09:17.884-08:00"Author vs. User Tagging" on Journal of Library Metadata<div style="text-align: justify;">With the increasing application of social tagging technology in web 2.0, librarians have applied social tagging in online library catalog as an additional search entry for users. Now scientists, attorneys and technology consultants start to tag web contents as subject experts to provide such convenience. This user tagging is becoming an acceptable access tool for researchers. But what are the differences between author-supplied <strong style="font-weight: normal;"><em>metadata</em></strong> (endo-tagging) and user- supplied <strong style="font-weight: normal;"><em>metadata</em></strong> (exo-tagging)? An interesting article by Heather Lea Moulaison on <a href="http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=J517"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Journal of Library Metadata</span></a>, (2008, vol. 8, issue 2 p101-111, 11p) has a critical review on this issue.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=J517"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Journal of Library Metadata</span></a> focuses on emerging issues<span class="text"> about all aspects of metadata applications in today's digital libraries.</span> Haworth's <a href="http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=J517">Journal of Library Metadata</a>, now published by the Taylor & Francis Group, is seeking a new editor. Any interested professionals with sufficient credentials who might like to take on this task can contact Bill Cohen, the publisher at bcohen7719@aol.com.</div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-36534870419969094202009-01-26T17:03:00.001-08:002009-01-26T17:25:45.093-08:00What Does a Metadata Librarian Do?<div style="text-align: justify;">A metadata librarian becomes a new professional library title in recent three years. It needs to transfer traditional cataloging knowledge into digital information management with emerging technologies. Many new metadata librarians are experiencing new challenges in the digital age, especially, social libraries are becoming an emerging knowledge network. Here is the interview with Inmagic " <a href="http://inmagicinc.blogspot.com/2009/01/getting-metadata-experience-with-jin.html">Getting the Metadata Experience with Jin Xiu Guo</a>".<br /></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-21507036086107858782009-01-06T17:05:00.000-08:002009-01-06T18:33:48.904-08:00International Standard Collection Identifier (ISCI)<div style="text-align: justify;">International Standard Collection Identifier is under review now. The purpose of the document is to make various collections and fonds to be identified by a system in a systematical way. An identifier is an important metadata element, so far, there is no standard way to construct an identifier. Different entities have their own ways to create identifiers.<br /><br />With the appearance of metasearch engine, an identifier has played an important role in locating information. Especially electronic resources have been exponentially increased in a recent decade, an identifier is usually generated by local practices. There is no systematical way to guide local practices to formulate an consistent identifier. Now more and more digital libraries have created digital collections including digital archives, descriptive metadata are used to describe those resources. An identifier is a key element of descriptive metadata. Today, knowledge sharing is an effective learning process. Knowledge sharing can not be alive on its own, metadata sharing and exchange inevitably accompany with knowledge sharing.<br /><br />When a variety of organizations use different local identifiers, the metasearch engine has to do duplicate searching because of irregular formation of the identifiers. This irregularity greatly reduces search engine efficiency. To increase search effectiveness, we need to build standard identifiers for collections and fonds, to facilitate global metadata exchange. The proposed standard way is:<br /><br /><isil><isil><span style="font-weight: bold;">ISIL:Collection identifier string<br /><br /></span><collection identifier="" string=""><collection identifier="" string="">ISIL is the identifier for the organization, the collection identifier may contain up to 16 characters.<br /><br />e.g. FI-Ht:Up Helsinki University Theology Library, Psychology of religion collection. (example from ISO/CD 27730)<br /><br />If ISCI becomes a standard, it will greatly reduce duplicate detection of a search engine, users will be able to identify collections and fonds through ISCI.<br /><br /></collection></collection></isil></isil></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-88935982906341444722008-12-08T16:09:00.000-08:002008-12-08T17:13:08.408-08:00Dublin Core One-to-One Principle<div style="text-align: justify;">In Dublin Core metadata schema, the one-to-one principle refers to one metadata description is only for one resource. For instance, description for a digital image of Mona Lisa can not be regarded as same as the original painting. However, in most practices, it's difficult to just make a straight line of it.<br /><br />When we create metadata to describe a resource, such as a digital image, or an analog object, we need to consider users' requirements. From users perspective, we want to give the information they are looking for; metadata creators should have the capability to identify the key information need. For example, when a metadata creator describes the date of an image of Mona Lisa digitized from an original painting, s/he should think about what users really want to know here. In most case, users are interested in the original date of the painting instead of the image. If metadata creators give the digitization date of the image, it would be less satisfied users' interest.<br /><br />However, in the above example, if the original created date of the painting is provided in the metdata description instead of the digitization date, it would conflict with the one-to-one principle. Therefore, we need to use our best judgment to create metadata meaningful for users, rather than just follow straight rules and miss the information users need.<br /></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-84709905555517045442008-11-24T18:28:00.000-08:002008-11-24T18:53:00.147-08:00RDA Constituency Review<div style="text-align: justify;">RDA is up for review again. People who are interested in RDA could submit your comments by February 2, 2009. RDA (Resource Description and Access) will be the general guideline for information professionals to describe electronic resources and provide access to online informaton for users; it also facilitates the metadata quality control and sharing metadata between different communities and metadata schemes.<br /></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-54331596020452617122008-11-10T16:30:00.000-08:002008-11-10T17:20:47.108-08:00Generating MARC with MarcEdit<div style="text-align: justify;">It has been a trend to harvest metadata from available online resources. Since OAI was adopted by most of data providers, it has facilitated libraries to share metadata . However, sometimes you probably want to integrate a few websites into the library cataloging database, you could do this easily with MarcEdit.
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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MarcEdit could process the conversion between MARC and XML metadata, it could do the following transformation:
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Users can also edit those marc records with MarcEdit, and batch load them into your intergrating library system. If users could make use of some macros, the bacth editing will be much easier. People who are intertested in this could look at the sample at <a href="http://library.washcoll.edu/search/a?SORT=D&searchtype=a&searcharg=Marsden%2C+Hollis&submit.x=37&submit.y=12">Miller Library</a>.
<br /></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-18206587682301896992008-11-03T16:15:00.000-08:002008-11-03T16:56:34.712-08:00Item Mapper in DSpace<div style="text-align: justify;">Recently, I got several calls to ask how to use the item mapper in DSpace. The item mapper is used to reduce duplicates of the same record, and create an easy way to link the item record across multiple collections in DSpace. For instance, if a photograph by John Lee is collected in the photograph collection, but it also appears in the collection of Arts Department. Then we can use the item mapper to match the same photograph record in the second collection to avoid reproduce an item record in the second collection.<br /><br />An item mapper is a convenient tool for users to manage records at the item level. However, when a same creator has multiple work in DSpace, and some of work might appear in various collections, then the item mapper becomes problematic. Currently, users can only use the item mapper by searching author name. As I mentioned, if the author has multiple publications in DSapce, how do users recognize the right publication to map the item record without title information?<br /><br />This extreme situtation has been less considered by DSpace developers. At this point, if such case happhens, users need to label the item record which needs to be mappred in more than one collections. For example, users can create second co-author to tag the publication, then search the collections by the co-author name to identify the record and map it in the according collection. After your mapping is done, users need to go back the record and delete the co-author from the item record. That is how we can temporarily solve the problem. Nevertheless, We still hope that DSpace developers could improve the item mapper with more combined search features.<br /></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-28467797203232047262008-10-26T11:50:00.000-07:002008-10-26T12:55:39.380-07:00INMAGIC New Knowledge Management Tool<div style="text-align: justify;">Recently, INMAGIC has announced the new generation knowledge management tool - through social knowledge networks to inspire innovative insight and share knowledge to keep organizational intelligence and transfer implicit knowledge to explicit knowledge.<br /><br />It seems promising that companies have found an effective and efficient way to keep innate intelligence through the communication within a company social network. The intention of this knowledgenet is to link the existing knowledge repository with different organizational groups to generate a sound solution for a particular business or technical problem. These gourps could be R & D, marketing, sales, decision makers, production, stragetic planning, and legal department. INMAGIC hope that the social knowledge network could play a comprehesive role in information organization, publishing, sharing, creation and collaboration.<br /><br />This is a new information model built upon Amazon.com. Facing such complicate and diverse types of content, I wonder what makes the search engine distinguished from other knowledge tool. How this tool will make search easier for users to find the required information or link relevant information to the target problems? How does the tool encourage internal users to contribute more to the knowledgenet? That will be interesting to see.<br /></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-54112444019113197002008-10-20T17:18:00.000-07:002008-10-20T18:08:14.278-07:00Ranking Terms in a Thesaurus Database<div style="text-align: justify;">As I have discussed in the previous posting, a thesaurus is very useful tool for users to efficiently search information in a database. The purpose that users look up the thesaurus is to find the right concept for their search. Do users really need a ranking scale to indicate the relevancy of the term they are looking for?<br /><br />If the ranking makes sense to the users, it would be worthy doing so. For instance, when users search chemicals in databases, such as STN and Dialog, they would prefer to look up the term in the thesaurus first. By looking at the term indexed by the database producer, users would know how to create their search strategy. The ranking scale used by these databases is the number of records linked to the term. A term in a database could be ranked quite differently from it in another database.<br /><br />If the ranking is based on a word partially matching with the indexing term, it would confuse users. For example, if users get the same ranking scale of different indexing terms because of partial word matching, users would conclude that these indexing terms are all equally relevant. That's not true. Some indexing terms are linked with more relevant records than others, how the thesaurus would help users to decide which term should be used to perform the search?<br /><br />I would love to see a new systematical ranking system will be adopted in a thesaurus database.<br /></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-42859380795871140612008-10-13T16:25:00.000-07:002008-10-13T17:59:48.466-07:00WilsonWeb Thesaurus Database<div style="text-align: justify;">WilsonWeb is a hybrid database with subjects of humanities, social science, education, business, applied science and technology. The thesaurus database is a very useful tool for searchers. For instance, if you are not sure the term indexed in the database, you can search thesaurus database, then you will get the list for all related subjects and related terms with the number of linked records. This is a preliminary search, it will give you some hints to search WilsonWeb with indexing terms.<br /><br />However, WilsonWeb covers subjects in different disciplines, the same concept could have different meanings in different domains. It would be a huge amount of works to create a hierachic structure in its thesaurus database, or people should call it taxonomy, which will really narrow down the search terms. It's always a challenge for database producers that what kind of thesaurus should be offered to users. Database producers would think cost and effectiveness are the key to solve this problem.<br /><br />Today, taxonomy has been a main information technology to make search engine more intelligent. Law firms, R & D, and consulting companies have begun building their own taxonomy to enhance the searchability of web search engines, which greatly saves searchers' time with more relevant search results. The problem most people have today is too much information exists, how are they able to find the needed information? Taxonomy could assist companies to organize information and make information easily searchable for users. SLA website and Askus.com are good examples of web content with the benefit of taxonomy.<br /></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-2898538001837212892008-10-06T16:56:00.000-07:002008-10-06T17:47:31.910-07:00Metadata Quality Control<div style="text-align: justify;">Metadata quality control is becoming more important than ever when we deal with batch import. These problems include various versions of author name, unconventional abbreviations, inappropriate data formats, duplicate records, spelling errors, incomplete punctuations, unrecognized characters etc. To control the quality of metadata, we need systematical way to instantly identify and correct those errors; on the other hand, we also need strengthen metadata creation at the beginning.<br /><br />Recently, DSpace has released an add-on for metadata quality control, which has powerful mass-edit feature, duplicate detection and resolving algorithms. This is a very promising feature for metadata quality control, at least, some systematical methods could be adopted to solve the current dilemma at the time of submission.<br /><br />Hopefully, those functions, which are available in traditional Integrating Library System, such as, authority control, control vocabulary etc., will be available in Institutional Repository software.<br /></div><span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"><strong><span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></strong></span>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-81995167751683010372008-09-28T16:17:00.000-07:002008-09-28T16:42:34.508-07:00Metadata Harvesting with MarcEdit<div style="text-align: justify;">Last time, when I harvested DSpace metadata with MarcEdit, it only lasted around 3 minutes. From the test on yesterday, it went well even though I only did a small collection.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">It is important to ensure consistent metadata and access to those digital collections, especially during the period of senior seminars. A simple and clear processing manual should be written to train staff or student assistants how to create metadata, publish theses and harvest metadata with MarcEdit. I am also interested in harvesting metadata with other software. I hope I can hear some good news from Claude in Montreal soon!<br /></div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-79767847786467343222008-09-02T11:17:00.000-07:002008-09-02T11:51:54.541-07:00Back To the Library World<div style="text-align: justify;">This is a really busy and nice summer. I am glad back to work even though the beginning of the semester is over crowed on campus.<br /><br />The other exciting is my NITLE Technology Fellowship started in July. Because of the scheduling, I missed the Technology Fellow Workshop on July 21-23 at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX. But I was able to make it up in August via MIV (Multipoint Interactive Videoconferencing). I met a couple of NITLE Technology Fellows on MIV. Actually, MIV will be my major classroom in the future. I really get excited about what I should teach there ...</div>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-43665605631185156392008-06-30T18:56:00.000-07:002008-06-30T19:18:28.322-07:00RDA Webcasts by Barbara Tillett<div style="text-align: justify;">Barbara Tillett, the chief officer of the Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress,talks about RDA (Resource Description and Access) in two new webcasts. He introduces the background of RDA development, gives us an overview of the new rules, and addresses the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment. Will RDA be published in early 2009?<br /></div><br />Title 1: <a href="http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4320">Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview</a><br />Title 2: <a href="http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4327">Cataloging Principles and RDA: Resource Description and Access<br /></a>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686089342677146477.post-65726687472297798732008-06-21T19:54:00.001-07:002008-06-21T21:14:08.035-07:00Presentation at NITLE DSpace User Community Meeting 2008<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"data="http://real.financial.officelive.com/documents/DSpace.swf" height="300" width="400" align="middle"><br /><param name="movie" value="http://real.financial.officelive.com/documents/DSpace.swf"/><br /><param name="allownetworking" value="internal" /><br /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" /><br /><param name="enableJSURL" value="false" /><br /><param name="enableHREF" value="false" /><br /><param name="saveEmbedTags"value="true" /><br /></object>Jin Xiu Guohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635663632766964827noreply@blogger.com0