eXtensible Catalog & Koha- July 3, 2008 News from LibLime about Koha and the eXtensible Catalog.LibLime, the leader in open-source solutions for libraries and the eXtensible Catalog (XC) project-- an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project currently underway at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries-- have announced a new partnership agreement to ensure future compatibility between the XC project and Koha, the first open-source integrated library system.The XCLibLime partnership will ensure that the open-source...http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/07/extensible-catalog-koha.html Changes to MARC Code List for Languages- July 2, 2008 As a result of a formal request from the National Libraries of Serbia and Croatia and those countries' national standards bodies to the ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee, the MARC language codes for Serbian and Croatian will be changed as below from the ISO 639-2 bibliographic codes (ISO 639-2B) to the ISO 639-2 terminology codes (ISO 639-2T). This change also supports established usage in bibliographic databases in Croatia. Because the codes are obsolete, rather than deleted, they may still...http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/07/changes-to-marc-code-list-for-languages.html Martha Yee Articles- July 2, 2008 Some more articles by Martha Yee are now available.Integration of Nonbook Materials in AACR2. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 1983; 3:1-18.Attempts to Deal With the Crisis in Cataloging at the Library of Congress in the 1940's. Library Quarterly 1987 Jan; 57:1-31.What is a Work In: The Principles and Future of AACR: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Principles and Future Development of AACR, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 23-25, 1997. Ed., Jean Weihs. Ottawa: Canadian..http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/07/martha-yee-articles.html RDA News- July 1, 2008 News from RDA.The Co-Publishers of RDA Online (the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) have reached the conclusion that further time is required to complete the development of the new software that will be used for distributing the full draft of RDA for constituency review.The full draft was originally scheduled for release on August 4, 2008. Instead, it will now be issued in October 2008. The...http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/07/rda-news.html OCLC Terminology Services- July 1, 2008 Terminology Services, an Experimental Services for Controlled Vocabularies, a project of OCLC Research is now available.HighlightsSearch descriptions of controlled vocabulariesSearch for conceptsheadings in a controlled vocabularyRetrieve a single conceptheading by its identifierView relationships for a conceptheading including equivalence, hierarchical, and associativeRetrieve conceptsheadings in multiple representations including HTML, MARC XML, SKOS, and Zthes.Search using SRU CQL...http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/07/oclc-terminology-services.html New Union Catalog- July 1, 2008 The Avi Chai Foundation has announced a new tool for Judaica librarians the Avi Chai Bookshelf Union Catalog. The union catalog, contains the MARC bibliographic holdings of 31 Jewish high school libraries in the United States and Canada that have been recipients of Avi Chai's Bookshelf grant. The Avi Chai Union Catalog runs on the OPALS (open source) library automation system.http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-union-catalog.html |