- Marie Kennedy is the Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. This blog is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
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which is the marked category: print or electronic?
stimulating post today on SERIALST, an email forum devoted to serial publications. the author posed the question if we should distinguish in catalog records which publications are in print format because patrons now expect that a serial is chiefly published … Continue reading
Interview with BIGWIG
At the recent annual meeting of the American Library Association (ALA) I attended the BIGWIG meeting. BIGWIG (Blogs, Interactive Groupware Wikis Interest Group) is an interest group in the division of ALA called Library and Information Technology Association, and was … Continue reading
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Standards are people!
Q: Who writes the standards? A: You do! This was my take-away message from the recent conference of the American Library Association. The library world likes standardization, or formalizing the best way to exchange bits of information. I attended quite … Continue reading
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