HodgePodge
Posted On Apr 19 2007Nothing major really striking my fancy, but there has been a smattering of interesting news on the library technology front in the last couple of weeks. Free-gle Scholar Some scholarly societies are launching something that is either a counter to or a target for Google Scholar. Scitopia.org will launch this summer and include 3 million articles from 13 scholarly societies. The jury has not even gathered yet since it’s only April and the site will not launch until June, so I am left only to complain at this point that I don’t have any great love for press releases that …
Bibliographic Control Meeting
Posted On Mar 11 2007A couple of days later, I am still trying to wrap my head around the first public meeting of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. My thoughts are still somewhat random, maybe too random for serious consideration but just right for a Sunday night blog post. I summarize without the promise of poignancy for which my colleague Paul Miller hopes. I mean no disrespect in my frank comments that follow. If it’s a play-by of the day’s event you want, then I would refer you to Karen Coyle’s blog [apologies to Karen, none of …
Bibliographic Control Has a Future
Posted On Mar 7 2007Bibliographic control does have a future. Though, after spending 30 minutes last night describing the problem to my wife, I sure wish we had called it “the future of finding stuff online.” I’m headed out this morning for a meeting convened by the Library of Congress’s working group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. It is an austere group that I think has real potential to make some serious recommendations. Boy, that sounded like I’m running for office, didn’t it? Anyway, I am giving a short presentation on “New Services,” which is really just a euphemism for the fact that …