Meeting Tool

Here is a free tool that might be useful for meeting facilitators or workshop presenters, Qipit.

Copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone or digital camera to store, fax, email or publish!

• Turn documents, notes and whiteboards into digital copies (PDFs)
• Email or fax qipit digital copies via email, your online Qipit account, or right from your phone
• Store all of your paper documents and notes as digital documents for easy archiving and sharing
• Tag your qipit documents for easy searching and sorting
• Publish and share your documents on the web

Save those flip-chart notes from the brainstorming meeting, capture the white-board result at the end of the meeting. Sounds useful.

Library Funding

In the latest Thinking Out Loud with George and Joan George Needham revealed a startling finding from the next OCLC report. That library use does not correlate with library support. We can't assume that our members will support us in a bond issue. Nor can we assume those not using the library won't support funding. Rallying our members for a tax increase or bond issue is not the best way to get funding. We have to mobilize our supporters, whether members or not. The full report is due in the first part of 2008.

For the use of members instead of patrons, users, etc. listen to the podcast.

Additions to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description

The codes listed below have been recently approved for use in MARC 21 records. The codes will be added to the online MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions.

The codes should not be used in exchange records until after February 18, 2008. This 60-day waiting period is required to provide MARC 21 implementers time to include newly defined codes in any validation tables they may apply to the MARC fields where the codes are used.

Classification
The following codes are for use in subfield $2 in field 084 in Bibliographic and Community Information records (Other Classification Number), in subfield $2 in field 084 in Classification records (Classification Scheme and Edition) and in subfield $2 in field 065 in Authority records (Other Classification Number).

Additions:

asb

Allgemeine Systematik für Öffentliche Bibliotheken (ASB). (Berlin: Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut) [use only after February 18, 2008]

ghbs

GHB-Aufstellungssystematik: HBZ Köln [use only after February 18, 2008]

ifzs

Systematik der IfZ-Bibliothek. [use only after February 18, 2008]

kab

Klassifikation für Allgemeinbibliotheken (Bad Honnef : Bock und Herchen Verlag) [use only after February 18, 2008]

rvk

Regensburger Verbundklassifikation (RVK) [use only after February 18, 2008]

sbb

Systematik der Bayerischen Bibliographie [use only after February 18, 2008]

sfb

SfB: Systematik für Bibliotheken (München: K.G. Saur) [use only after February 18, 2008]

sdnb

Systematik der Deutschen Nationalbibliographie [use only after February 18, 2008]

ssd

Systematik: Stadtbücherei Duisburg: Buchaufstellung und Ordnung des systematischen Kataloges (Reutlingen: Verlag Buch und Bibliothek) [use only after February 18, 2008]

stub

Systematik der TUB München [use only after February 18, 2008]

zdbs

ZDB-Systematik = ZDB-Classification [use only after February 18, 2008]

Description Conventions
The following codes are for use in subfield $e in field 040 in Bibliographic and Authority records (Description Conventions).

Additions:

pi

Instruktionen für die alphabetischen Kataloge der preussischen Bibliotheken (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz [use only after February 18, 2008]

rna

Regeln zur Erschließung von Nachlässen und Autographen (RNA) [use only after February 18, 2008]

Language codes
The following code is for use in subfield $2 in field 041 in Bibliographic and Commmunity Information records (Language code).

Addition:

din2335

Sprachenzeichen: DIN 2335 (Berlin: Beuth) [use only after February 18, 2008]

Abbreviated Title
The following code is for use in subfield $2 in field 210 in Bibliographic records (Abbreviated Title).

Addition:

din1502

Regeln für das Kürzen von Wörtern in Titeln und für das Kürzen der Titel von Veröffentlichungen: DIN 1502 (Berlin; Köln: Beuth) [use only after February 18, 2008]

Other Standard Identifier
The following code is for use in subfield $2 in field 024 in Bibliographic and Community Information records (Other Standard Identifier).

Addition:

urn

Uniform Resource Name [use only after February 18, 2008]

MARC Code List for Languages

The 2007 edition of the "MARC Code List for Languages" is now available from the Library of Congress. This new publication contains a list of languages and their associated three-character alphabetic codes that allow for the designation of the language or languages in MARC records. References from variant forms and specific language names assigned to group codes are included.

The list includes all valid codes and code assignments as of September 2007 and supersedes the 2003 edition of the "MARC Code List for Languages." There are 27 code additions and 12 changed code captions in this edition.

An XML version of the 2007 edition of the "MARC Code List for Languages" is available for use in applications.

HTML and PDF versions of the 2007 edition of the "MARC Code List for Languages" are available online.

MARBI Proposals

The following papers are available for review by the MARC community:

• Proposal No. 2008-02: Definition of field 542 for facts related to copyright status in the MARC 21 bibliographic format
• Discussion Paper No. 2008-DP01: Identifying headings that are appropriate as added entries, but are not used as bibliographic main entries

The draft agenda for the 2008 ALA Midwinter MARBI meetings is available.

Joint Steering Committee Documents

The following documents were posted on the JSC website on 2007/12/17:

• 5JSC/RDA/Sections 2-4, 9 (This is a large PDF file and may take a few seconds to open)
• 5JSC/RDA/Prospectus/Rev/5
• 5JSC/Chair/9/Chair follow-up/5 [Appendices WG]
• 5JSC/RDA/Objectives and Principles/Rev
• 5JSC/RDA/Element analysis/Rev
• 5JSC/RDA/RDA to FRAD mapping
• 5JSC/RDA/RDA to FRBR mapping/Rev
• 5JSC/RDA/Scope/Rev/2
• 5JSC/Chair/9/Chair follow-up/4 [Appendices WG]

Code4Lib Journal

The Code4Lib Journal has released the first issue. Lots of good stuff there.

• Beyond OPAC 2.0: Library Catalog as Versatile Discovery Platform by Tito Sierra, Joseph Ryan, and Markus Wust
• Facet-based search and navigation with LCSH: Problems and opportunities by Kelley McGrath
• Communicat: The Next Generation Catalog That Almost Was… by Ross Singer

Are just some of the papers.

Christmas Music

I went to a wonderful preformance of Messiah this week. It is always one of the best parts of the season. However, it really is an Easter piece. There is a Christmas section, but then it goes on to the death and aftermath. Not very Christmas. What I'd like to see is to just have the 1st part and the Hallelujah Chorus (folks would complain if that was missing) and then the Amen Chorus. Then after intermission another work could be presented. Hodie by Vaughan Williams does not get played often enough for my taste. There a plenty of works that could fill a second half. If one was a bit short a nice sing-along could fill the end of the concert.

I hope some music director in the Houston area is reading this and takes the suggestion (Ha!). Has anyone heard Hodie live?