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Local Weather: 8/7/11 - 8/14/11
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Matthew Beacom's library and metadata weblog. Search the HathiTrust Digital Library Catalog. Friday, August 12, 2011. Restoring the Sterling Memorial Library nave at Yale. Yale is beginning a project to restore the nave of the Sterling Memorial Library. Our new UL, Susan Gibbons, asked staff to share their ideas about how to restore the nave. Here is my idea. Links to this post. Labels: Sterling Memorial Library. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). OCLC Programs and Research. CCQ (Informaworld: Yale access).
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Local Weather: 10/9/11 - 10/16/11
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Matthew Beacom's library and metadata weblog. Search the HathiTrust Digital Library Catalog. Tuesday, October 11, 2011. Final Report PCC ISBD and MARC Task Group September 2011 (78 p.) PDF. Of the PCC ISBD and MARC Task Group (September 2011) has been posted online. 78 pages. PDF. The MARC21 community needs to transition to an environment where nearly all records created omit ISBD punctuation. The report is really well-done. Robert Bremer, OCLC, chaired the group. Links to this post. Bloggers in the House.
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Local Weather: The LC Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative plan
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Matthew Beacom's library and metadata weblog. Search the HathiTrust Digital Library Catalog. Monday, October 31, 2011. The LC Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative plan. The Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative plan is available at:. Http:/ www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-103111.html. The plan itself is a 10 p. PDF. Http:/ www.loc.gov/marc/transition/pdf/bibframework-10312011.pdf. Bibliographic framework is intended to indicate an environment rather than a "format". Continuati...
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Local Weather: SAA 2012--my first archivists' conference
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Matthew Beacom's library and metadata weblog. Search the HathiTrust Digital Library Catalog. Wednesday, August 15, 2012. SAA 2012- my first archivists' conference. Between August 6 and 11 I attended the SAA 2012 conference in San Diego. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). OCLC Programs and Research. CCQ (Informaworld: Yale access). International Journal of Digital Curation. Conal Tuohy: Linked Open Data Visualisation at #GLAMVR16. Bittorrent for sharing enormous research datasets. Bloggers in the House.
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Local Weather: 7/10/11 - 7/17/11
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Matthew Beacom's library and metadata weblog. Search the HathiTrust Digital Library Catalog. Monday, July 11, 2011. Is a Bookless Library Still a Library? Time magazine has an article. By that title written by Tim Newcomb, dateline July 11, 2011. It's main topic is Drexel's new library- built for a bookless library. Newcomb quotes Danuta Nictecki, formerly at Yale library. How we answer it has important consequences for those served by libraries. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Library 2&...
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Local Weather: Final Report PCC ISBD and MARC Task Group September 2011 (78 p.) PDF
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Matthew Beacom's library and metadata weblog. Search the HathiTrust Digital Library Catalog. Tuesday, October 11, 2011. Final Report PCC ISBD and MARC Task Group September 2011 (78 p.) PDF. Of the PCC ISBD and MARC Task Group (September 2011) has been posted online. 78 pages. PDF. The MARC21 community needs to transition to an environment where nearly all records created omit ISBD punctuation. The report is really well-done. Robert Bremer, OCLC, chaired the group. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Local Weather: 10/30/11 - 11/6/11
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Matthew Beacom's library and metadata weblog. Search the HathiTrust Digital Library Catalog. Monday, October 31, 2011. The LC Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative plan. The Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative plan is available at:. Http:/ www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-103111.html. The plan itself is a 10 p. PDF. Http:/ www.loc.gov/marc/transition/pdf/bibframework-10312011.pdf. Bibliographic framework is intended to indicate an environment rather than a "format". Continuati...
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Local Weather: COMET (Cambridge Open METadata) project completed July 2011
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Matthew Beacom's library and metadata weblog. Search the HathiTrust Digital Library Catalog. Monday, September 12, 2011. COMET (Cambridge Open METadata) project completed July 2011. COMET (Cambridge Open METadata) project was completed this July 2011. The COMET blog final post. Sums up the work done, the lessons learned, and indicates some next steps. The CUL open data service. Is worth a look. (It is funded under the JISC Infrastructure for Resource Discovery program.). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Local Weather: update after long break -- new job
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Matthew Beacom's library and metadata weblog. Search the HathiTrust Digital Library Catalog. Monday, August 13, 2012. Update after long break - new job. I have not posted anything to this blog in almost a year. Much has changed. I'm still at Yale University Library. But I am now working at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. I am the Head of Technical Services there. I started on February 6, 2012. I'll work on keeping this more current. We'll see what happens. August 14, 2012 at 11:29 AM.
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Local Weather: 8/12/12 - 8/19/12
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Matthew Beacom's library and metadata weblog. Search the HathiTrust Digital Library Catalog. Wednesday, August 15, 2012. SAA 2012- my first archivists' conference. Between August 6 and 11 I attended the SAA 2012 conference in San Diego. Links to this post. Monday, August 13, 2012. Update after long break - new job. I have not posted anything to this blog in almost a year. Much has changed. I'm still at Yale University Library. But I am now working at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Update ...
