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Meta-utopia
I remember learning about MARC in one of first courses in SLIS. We had to create MARC records for different books that we had at home. There were so many fields, and it was interesting, but it wanted...
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HathiTrust
Hello! This week’s readings were all about HathiTrust. Although it was a “focus on” this library, there were more rabbit holes of information than I anticipated! HathiTrust isn’t quite 5 years old,...
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An interview on HathiTrust
Hi everyone, Nothing ground breaking here, just a short interview that covers some of the challenges and goals of HathiTrust....
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Have you been involved in creating (or following) a selection plan for digitization? Who was involved in creating the guidelines, and what were the key points in the plan? Did you experience any...
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User interfaces.
What are the most important factors in making a digital library user-friendly? How can they be carried out? Morville took the accepted trio of important factors (context, content and users) and blew...
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Talk to those users
Tefko Saracevic pointed out that “users have many difficulties with digital libraries.” As a librarian or a librarian to be, how would you address Saracevic’s concerns? – they usually do not fully...
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Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine.
Question #1: How important are institutions like DPLA and HathiTrust in the struggle to transfer the benefits of fair use to digital libraries? HathiTrust and the DPLA are giants in the world of...
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Has James Joyce Been Set Free?
I posted this article as a comment to another post but didn’t want it to get lost in the shuffle. James Joyce’s grandson has had a stranglehold on Joyce’s works, that hold was to expire on 1/1/12. The...
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Digital Program and Data Management Librarian
Through the ALA listserv, I found a posting for a Digital Program and Data Management Librarian with the William Madison Randall Library at The University of North Carolina Wilmington....
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Final musings
In my first blog post for this class, I struck a slightly pessimistic note. I mentioned that digitizing information was an excellent idea, but without a system to search or retrieve data, it...
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