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First Thus – Page 151 – Thoughts about the future of libraries and the catalog.
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Thoughts about the future of libraries and the catalog. Published June 4, 2010 by James Weinheimer. RE: Are MARC subfields really useful? Posting to NGC4LIB Dan Matei wrote: The question in the subject is brutal, in order to attract attention. I know it is a blasphemy 🙂 Of course the subfields are…. Read More RE: Are MARC subfields really useful? Published June 4, 2010 by James Weinheimer. Re: If libraries had shareholders by Peter Brantley. Read More Re: If libraries had shareholders by Peter Brantley.
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BIBFRAME Linked data – First Thus
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Thoughts about the future of libraries and the catalog. Published May 3, 2015 by James Weinheimer. On 4/2/2015 7:52 PM, Kelley McGrath wrote:. My problem is that I want information that isn’t easy to get at. Or at least I can’t find an easy way to do it. Can you tell me (via algorithm and not human eyes) whether the contents of 245$b are a subtitle, a parallel title or title(s) that are part of a resource without a collective title? Can you find the titles that are hidden in 245$c? In lines 3564 , (I won...
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2013 – First Thus
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Thoughts about the future of libraries and the catalog. Published December 31, 2013 by James Weinheimer. Re: Families as contributors / Brothers Grimm. Posting to RDA-L On 12/30/2013 10:03 AM, Heidrun Wiesenmüller wrote: snip I’ve got two questions concerning families and I hope somebody can help: #1: I’ve found lots of clear examples for…. Read More Re: Families as contributors / Brothers Grimm. Published December 27, 2013 by James Weinheimer. Re: [ACAT] How did you get into librarianship? Published Dec...
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2010 – First Thus
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Thoughts about the future of libraries and the catalog. Published December 31, 2010 by James Weinheimer. RE: Amazon’s ONIX to MARC converter. Posting to Autocat Brian Briscoe wrote: snip While author and title are common search terms, the secretary input of such in any manner of uncontrolled syntax and a lack of subject…. Read More RE: Amazon’s ONIX to MARC converter. Published December 31, 2010 by James Weinheimer. RE: Amazon’s ONIX to MARC converter. Read More RE: Amazon’s ONIX to MARC converter. Posti...
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2011 – First Thus
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Thoughts about the future of libraries and the catalog. Published December 28, 2011 by James Weinheimer. Re: [ACAT] What RDA might be good for. Posting to Autocat On 27/12/2011 19:03, Kevin M Randall wrote: snip James Weinheimer wrote: It seems to me that if we want our catalogs used (and thereby catalogers employed), we…. Read More Re: [ACAT] What RDA might be good for. Published December 22, 2011 by James Weinheimer. Re: Cataloging issue of journal as monograph. You search the serial/series…. Posting t...
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First Thus – Page 2 – Thoughts about the future of libraries and the catalog.
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Thoughts about the future of libraries and the catalog. Published December 9, 2016 by James Weinheimer. RDA-L Aggregates and augmentations. Posting to RDA-L On 08/12/2016 22:10, Gene Fieg wrote: I agree. Reminds me of Gormans comment about great,but how does it work in theory. I am seeing the patron recede,…. Read More RDA-L Aggregates and augmentations. Published December 4, 2016 by James Weinheimer. Google, democracy and the truth about internet search Technology The Guardian. Read More Why RDA? Postin...
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ACAT AAACR to RDA Conversion – First Thus
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Thoughts about the future of libraries and the catalog. ACAT AAACR to RDA Conversion. Published May 21, 2015 by James Weinheimer. ACAT AAACR to RDA Conversion. On 20/04/2015 23.30, Gene Fieg wrote:. I think this gets back the whole issue of abbreviations. Which is more understandable to a patron, anglophone or not: 3rd edition, 3rd ed., or third edition? Our goal should be to communicate the WEMI as clearly as possible to the patron. And we see: “Publisher: Oxford University Press; 2 edition (May 1...
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Uncategorized – First Thus
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Thoughts about the future of libraries and the catalog. Published March 31, 2017 by James Weinheimer. A Few Thoughts About BIBFRAME. Cataloging Matters No. 21 A Few Thoughts about BIBFRAME Hello everyone and welcome to Cataloging Matters, a series of podcasts about the future of libraries and cataloging, coming to you…. Read More A Few Thoughts About BIBFRAME. Published February 22, 2017 by James Weinheimer. Re: [RDA-L] Collective RDA and PCC wisdom sought. Published February 22, 2017 by James Weinheimer.
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RDA-L Re: nonfiling characters – First Thus
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Thoughts about the future of libraries and the catalog. RDA-L Re: nonfiling characters. Published January 28, 2015 by James Weinheimer. RDA-L Re: nonfiling characters. On 1/28/2015 7:00 PM, J. McRee Elrod wrote:. While those reared on Google and other search engines may mostly search by keyword, there are still older folk amongst us who like left anchored exact word searches, whether resulting in a hitlist or a browse list. We load into our catalogs massive numbers of metadata records created by complete...
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BIBFRAME Linked data – First Thus
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Thoughts about the future of libraries and the catalog. Published May 4, 2015 by James Weinheimer. On 4/3/2015 7:51 PM, Robert Sanderson wrote:. So … please lets focus on constructive suggestions for how to improve the current Model T version of the ontology we have now, towards that much sleeker and better performing Ferrari 🙂. 8221; Nobody wants typewriters any more–or at least such a tiny percentage as to be insignificant. The world has moved on and will continue to move on. That is how development h...
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