2013 Newbery and Caldecott Winners

for best children's book 

for best illustrated children's book 

For more information - 

http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal

http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal

Library Hotels!

Wouldn't it be wonderful to stay overnight or even a week in a library hotel?  

Here are a few that I would like to visit.

http://www.departures.com/articles/wonderful-hotel-libraries

http://www.studyhotels.com

http://www.libraryhotel.com

These images are of the Library Hotel in NYC.

Infographics . . . it's the thing to do!

Here's information regarding how to create infographics - Enjoy!

http://www.infographicsarchive.com/create-infographics-and-data-visualization/


And here are two example of info graphics created by the Library of Congress and others examples.

More book-spine poetry . . .

http://bookriot.com/2012/10/26/the-best-of-book-spine-poetry/

http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/languagetranslation/sortedbooks.php

Book-spine poem

Book-spine poem “Why I Wake Early”

Why I wake early

Available light:
The morning star.
Invisible forms:
The elusiveness of the ordinary.
Given
The call of solitude,
The dawn of the world.

Citation:

"Planet Cataloging." Planet Cataloging. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2012. .

Cataloging . . . Yes, I am a library cataloger

Here are a few cataloging blogs I find interesting.

http://cataids.wordpress.com/

http://planetcataloging.org/

http://modlibrarian.posterous.com/

In case you don't know anything about library cataloging, please continue reading . . .

Cataloging (or cataloguing) is the process of listing or including something in a catalog. In library science it is the producing of bibliographical descriptions of books or other kinds of documents. Today the study of cataloging has broadened and merged with the study of metadata ("data about data contents") and is sometimes termed resource description and access.^[1]

Cataloging rules

 

Cataloging rules have been defined to allow for consistent cataloging of various library materials across several persons of a cataloging team and across time. Users can use them to clarify how to find an entry and how to interpret the data in an entry. Cataloging rules prescribe which information about a bibliographic item is included in the entry and how this information is presented for the user; It may also aid to sort the entries in printing (parts of) the catalog.

The larger a collection, the more elaborate cataloging rules are needed. Users cannot and do not want to examine hundreds of catalog entries or even dozens of library items to find the one item they need.

Currently, most cataloging rules are similar to, or even based on, the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), a set of rules produced by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to describe a wide range of library materials. These rules organize the bibliographic description of an item in the following areas: title and statement of responsibility (author or editor), edition, material specific details (for example, the scale of a map), publication and distribution, physical description (for example, number of pages), series, notes, and standard number (ISBN). The most commonly used set of cataloging rules in the English-speaking world are the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd Edition, or AACR2 for short. AACR2 provides rules for descriptive cataloging only and does not touch upon subject cataloging. AACR2 has been translated into many languages, for use around the world. In the German-speaking world there is also the Regeln für die alphabetische Katalogisierung (RAK).
Library items that are written in a foreign script are, in some cases, transliterated to the script of the catalog.

Resource Description and Access (RDA)

Resource Description and Access (RDA) is a standard for cataloguing that provides instructions and guidelines on formulating data for resource description and discovery. Intended for use by libraries and other cultural organizations such as museums and archives, RDA is the successor to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2), the current cataloging standard set for English language libraries. RDA was initially released in June 2010. ^[1] In March 2012, the Library of Congress announced it will have fully implemented RDA cataloging by March 31, 2013. Several other national libraries including the British Library, Library and Archives Canada, National Library of Australia, and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek also planned to implement RDA in 2013.^[2]

Standards

 

In libraries have versions of the AACR2 and MARC standards for a long time been internationally accepted standards. In subject databases such as Chemical Abstracts, MEDLINE and PsycINFO is no standards, but the "Common Communication Format" (CCF) is meant to serve such databases. In archives and museums are other principles followed. Resource Description and Access is a recent attempt to make a standard that crosses the domains described above. It should be considered that all these standards differ from the standards used by authors to refer to their sources (see Citation. All these standards represent alternative way of bibliographical recording.

Descriptive cataloging

"Descriptive cataloging" is a well-established concept in the tradition of library cataloging in which a distinction is made between descriptive cataloging and subject cataloging, each applying a set of standards, different qualifications and often also different kinds of professionals. In the tradition of documentation and information science (e.g., by commercial bibliographical databases) the concept document representation (also as verb: document representing) have mostly been used to cover both "descriptive" and "subject" representation. Descriptive cataloging has been defined as: "The part of cataloging concerned with describing the physical details of a book, such as the form and choice of entries and the title page transcription." (Office of Library Development, the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, 2004) See also Wilson (1989).

Subject cataloging

This is mostly known as classification and (subject) indexing. Classification is the assignment of a given document to a class in a classification system (such as Dewey Decimal Classification). Indexing is the assignment of characterizing labels to the documents represented in a record. Classification is a kind of controlled vocabulary while indexing may use controlled vocabulary, free terms, or both.

Citation:

"Cataloging." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 25 Oct. 2012. Web. 19 Nov. 2012. .

10 Great Library Presentations from Internet Librarian 2012

Online Education Database (OEDb) posted 10 awesome library presentations from Internet Librarian 2012. 


http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2012/10-great-library-presentations-from-internet-librarian-2012/

Adventures in International Librarianship: Living and Working Outside the United States

As a librarian, I have often entertained the idea of working for an academic library overseas.  Today, I had an opportunity to attend a free online webinar through http://www.librariesthriving.org/workshops/archives specifically on librarians working outside the United States and Canada.  Libraries Thriving has free online seminars on a varity of library topics.  Additionally, they offer professional development certificates upon the completion of each webinar!


Libraries Thriving is online an collaborative community of librarians, faculty, and researchers sharing ideas and working together on this site to further common goals of increasing innovative use of e-resources.

Goals of Libraries Thriving:

• Help libraries realize their possibility for impact and to address challenges
• Develop case studies of success that can be replicated
• Resolve key technical issues that limit progress

Problems that Libraries Thriving addresses:

• Increase effective use of e-resources
• Increase visibility and discoverability of libraries on the open web
• Help alleviate users’ information overload
• Create seamless access between resources
• Promote information and digital literacy

Citation: "About This Community." About This Community. N.p., 06 Nov. 2012. Web. 06 Nov. 2012 http://www.librariesthriving.org/