Tag Archives: library catalogue
Jack Of All Trades, Master of None
Our cataloguing department had a chance to sit down this past Friday and listen to ALA’s super debate “There’s no catalog like no catalog”. Highlights 1. How does a library catalogue get better every time it is used? 2. What … Continue reading
Readers’ Advisory Services: In the Backroom
As a member of our Readers’ Advisory Team at HPL, I’ve become interested in what the catalogue can do to assist and promote RA services while at the same time, maintaining the integrity of the catalogue. While I don’t mind … Continue reading
Thoughts on Chad Abel-Kops’ paper
Now that most of you have had an opportunity to read Mr. Abel-Kops’ paper, I thought it was time to write my own reflections on what he has written. Rather than taking the view that we have not improved our … Continue reading
“Raised on Google, this generation won’t settle for the difficult-to-use online library catalogues that many of us are accustomed to”
Here’s an article I stumbled across late last week. I think it really points to some ideas for the future of libraries, the library catalogue and information retrieval. Here are some quotes from the article: “… a former digital projects … Continue reading
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