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Are catalogues more than an inventory? Or, more than just a place to query library holdings?

Yesterday, Ivy from The Catalogs of Babes, posted a great piece called All catalog queries are reference questions, but not all reference questions are catalog queries. Ivy’s post goes to the heart of what I’ve been exploring for the past … Continue reading

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Slides: Social Catalogues and Readers’ Advisory Services

For those of you wondering why I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks, my husband and I were in Italy on vacation. Visiting family and touring around, it was a much needed break before the writing deadlines, conferences and … Continue reading

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Reading: Library Catalogs and Other Discovery Tools

Some of you may already be aware of OLA’s quarterly publication that was put out last Spring. But, I just ran across this Oregon Library Association’s issue devoted entirely to library catalogues and discovery tools. In addition to an introduction … Continue reading

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Librarianship’s Future Strengths: Are OPACs Broken?

I recently stumbled across an older ACRLog posting “Academic Librarianships’ Future Strengths?” While the entire article gave me something to reflect upon and think about regarding our future strengths, I think the most interesting part of the post, from my … Continue reading

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An article of interest

If you follow the blog In the Library with the Leadpipe, then you’ve seen the recent article We’re Gonna Geek This Mother Out. It’s an interesting piece and worth reading even if you don’t agree with what Mr. Singer writes. … Continue reading

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Subject navigation for today’s and tomorrow’s library catalogs

This entry is further to Cataloging Futures’ post  LC working group report: an insider’s view. I found John Mark Ockerbloom‘s ALA midwinter presentation “Mapping the library future: subject navigation for today’s and tomorrow’s library catalogs” on the blog Resource Shelf.  … Continue reading

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