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links for 2008-01-17

Michael C. Habib — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:29:58 +0000

15 Trends to Watch in 2008 – 1/7/2008 3:00:00 AM – Publishers Weekly

via AL Direct – “Christmas 2008 will be the first one in which sales of customized books, enabled by the Internet and print-on-demand, will become substantial. Make-your-own books have been creeping into public consciousness for a couple of years: …auth

(tags: future publishing trends lulu publishersweekly PW)
Walt at Random Â» Blog Archive Â» Academic Library Blogs: 231 Examples

Walt’s new book. Published through Lulu.

(tags: librarians blogging academiclibraries blogs academiclibrary20 academiclibrary2.0)
ALA | proposals

Reminder to self: Send something in.

(tags: todo)
Vendor-prompted cataloging [OCLC - Partner programs for publishers and material vendors]

“Publishers and material vendors: Partner with OCLC and offer your customers a unique value-added service that will get you noticed. Our four vendor-prompted cataloging programs (below) enable your customers to obtain corresponding WorldCat bibliographic

(tags: worldcat openworldcat promptcat cataloging)
About [OCLC - PromptCat]

“PromptCat provides cataloging records for new materials that can be ready to shelve the moment you receive them. OCLC works with leading library partners to automate this process. Best of all, your holdings are added to WorldCat, the bibliographic databa

(tags: world)
Amazon is new OCLC PromptCat participant [OCLC]

“DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 14 September 2006â€”Amazon.com is now an OCLC PromptCat participant, making it possible for libraries to receive OCLC MARC records along with the materials they get from the online vendor including books, music, DVDs and more.”

(tags: worldcat)
PromptCat [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]

“Participating partners send OCLC electronic lists that identify the books, videos and other materials you’ve ordered. PromptCat then matches the items to bibliographic records in WorldCat, adds local data to records, sets holdings in WorldCat and provide

(tags: worldcat)
Vendor record contribution [OCLC - Partner programs for publishers and material vendors]

“Look good to librarians: Get bibliographic records for your materials into WorldCat as early as possible in the publishing cycle. When you put descriptive metadata directly into WorldCatâ€”even months before titles are releasedâ€”you’re making it much ea

(tags: worldcat)
Cataloging partners program [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]

“Look good to librarians: Get bibliographic records for your materials into WorldCat as early as possible in the publishing cycle. When you put descriptive metadata directly into WorldCatâ€”even months before titles are releasedâ€”you’re making it much ea

(tags: Worldcat)
Technical information [OCLC - Vendor-prompted cataloging]

(tags: Worldcat)
Partners list [OCLC - Cataloging partners program]

(tags: Worldcat)
Technical information [OCLC - Vendor record contribution]

(tags: worldcat)
Other ways you can use WorldCat [WorldCat.org]

(tags: worldcat googlebooks)

links for 2007-07-28

Michael C. Habib — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:25:51 +0000

Mises Economics Blog: Mises Institute Print on Demand

A libertarian institute offering dozens of out of print books for sale through Lulu. This is just how academia and libraries should be embracing print on demand technology.

(tags: libertarian POD printondemand lulu publishing)
Mises Institute Print on Demand’s Storefront – Lulu.com

The list of books they are publishing. Worth noting, is that it kind of makes sense that libertarians are the ones who thought to embrace a free and open marketplace like Lulu. Librarians as supporters of free and open marketplaces of ideas should take note.

(tags: libertarian POD printondemand lulu publishing intellectualfreedom democracy capitalism)
Talis Platform news

“Welcome to the first issue of Talis Platform News, a new way for you to find out how we are continuing to develop the Talis Platform, and to share your own stories on putting it to use in powering the Web applications that matter to you.”

(tags: talis)
Submitting Written Testimony: Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Library of Congress)

“The Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control wants to know the viewpoints of all parties interested in this topic… written testimony will be accepted by the Working Group until July 31st, 2007.”

(tags: loc cataloging metadata)
Martha Yee’s Written Testimony to the LC Working Group

Highly recommended. I think a lot of Web 2.0 types in the profession argue for much the same, only expanded to include contributions from our patrons.

(tags: folksonomy Folksonomies cataloging facets LOC ucla)

links for 2007-07-18

Michael C. Habib — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:36:40 +0000

Open Library (Open Library)

Open Library says “Imagine a library that collected all the world’s information about all the world’s books and made it available for everyone to view and update. We’re building that library.” Update: Things are evolving really fast. These are probably the most revolutionary times for library catalogs since they first went electronic. This is a great example of the changes afoot. From the site:

Second, it must be grandly comprehensive. It would take catalog entries from every library and publisher and random Internet user who is willing to donate them. It would link to places where each book could be bought, borrowed, or downloaded. It would collect reviews and references and discussions and every other piece of data about the book it could get its hands on.

But most importantly, such a library must be fully open. Not simply “free to the people,” as the grand banner across the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh proclaims, but a product of the people: letting them create and curate its catalog, contribute to its content, participate in its governance, and have full, free access to its data.

(tags: opacs cataloging toread)
openid tag on Del.icio.us

Brushing up on my OpenID literature for an article I am writing.

(tags: openid claimid lj personal)