Twitter Markup

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Twitter is getting ready to start testing the markup of the messages. I can't see this becoming wide-spread unless there are apps to make this easy for the user. They do offer some suggestions on types of data to markup, for books it is the 10 or 13 digit ISBN and the year of publication.

This might make for richer data mining for the Library of Congress's archive of Twitter.

BTW the my library is on Twitter. It seems to be working well for us.

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OLAC Conference Scholarship

News from OLAC.

OLAC will award two Conference Scholarships that will provide funds for a member of Online Audiovisual Catalogers to attend the OLAC/MOUG 2010 Conference in Macon, Ga., October 15-17, 2010.

Eligibility:
Any personal member of OLAC who has never attended an OLAC Conference is eligible for the OLAC Conference Scholarship.

Award Description:
The award amount will cover reasonable estimated costs for registration, lodging, travel, and meals up to $1,000.

Conditions/Requirements:
The recipient must confirm in writing that he or she will attend. The recipient must attend the full conference, including the business meeting where the award will be announced, and the recipient must write a brief report for the OLAC Board indicating what he or she gained and found to be most helpful in his or her work. The scholarship will be awarded after the conference in the form of a reimbursement for expenses.

Applicants must include a completed application form (below), a current resume, and a cover letter describing why the applicant wishes to attend the Conference, how the receipt/non-receipt of the scholarship will influence his or her ability to attend the conference, and potential applications to his or her present and future job responsibilities.

Application Deadline
The application and supporting materials must be received no later than Friday July 2, 2010. The award will be announced no later than July 15, 2010.

E-mail your application (form below) and supporting materials to: Bobby Bothmann robert.bothmann@mnsu.edu

The 2010 OLAC Conference Scholarship committee is Katie Eller (2008 recipient, St. Louis County Library), Debbie Benrubi (OLAC Outreach Coordinator, Univ. of San Francisco) and Bobby Bothmann (OLAC Past President, Minn. State Univ., Mankato).

2010 OLAC CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION FORM (Please enter your information and print the form or type/print neatly)

Name: (First MI Last)
Mailing Address:
Country:
Daytime telephone:
Email address:
Place of employment:
Position title:
Personal member of Online Audiovisual Catalogers since:
Brief description of job responsibilities/related nonprint involvement/experience:

Cataloging Reproductions

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Excellent news from LC on cataloging reproductions. As it is now it is just too confusing. Determining original format is just impossible in many cases. If something crosses my desk that is a print-out, is it a Word doc that was meant to be printed or was it from a PDF and meant to be distributed electronically? How much difference does it make to the user? Is describing it as a remote-access text document in the body of the record but including a note that says it is on paper the best way to provide access and describe the resource? I'm personally so glad this is being reviewed.

Reconsidering the cataloging treatment of reproductions

The cataloging treatment of reproductions at LC is being reconsidered as part of a full-scale reevaluation of cataloging policy decisions necessitated by the upcoming test of Resource Description and Access (RDA). The basic approach to reproductions is the same in RDA as it is in AACR2, but LC and many other US libraries continue to follow an AACR1 approach as documented in the Library of Congress Rule Interpretation (LCRI) for Chapter 11 (microform reproductions) and LCRI 1.11A (non-microform reproductions).,p />In order to perform a more accurate test of RDA's provisions, those LC catalogers participating in the US National Library Test of RDA will follow RDA as written for the period of the RDA test (Oct. 1-Dec. 31, 2009), which entails basing the record for a reproduction on the item in hand and providing information about the original in the record when the decision is to have separate records for the original and the reproduction.

A discussion paper is available at http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/reproductions.pdf that provides some background information on how LC’s policies came to differ from AACR2’s treatment of reproductions, possible approaches to implementing an AACR2/RDA-compatible treatment, and LC’s decisions on how its RDA testers will treat reproductions during the US RDA test.

OCLC Application Gallery

OCLC has announced that twelve new apps have been added to OCLC Application gallery.

Members of the OCLC Developer Network and participants at WorldCat Mashathons have created these apps and mash-ups.

1. Getting It System Toolkit (GIST) for Gifts and Weed Manager
2. New York Times BestSellers mashup with WorldCat
3. Fuwatto WorldCat Search
4. Powerhouse Museum
5. UNC Chapel Hill library catalog
6. TRLN Authorities Autosuggest
7. EasyBib
8. pic2shop
9. Book Bazaar
10. WorldCat Search API query for mobile
11. WebVoyage Tomcat—OCLC Citation in ActionBox
12. EZproxy Wondertool

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