You'll want to check on this new blog on authority control, Collocate and Disambiguate:
Created by Lois Reibach, this blog will discuss news and trends in authority control, and new uses of authority data. Developments in controlled vocabularies will also be covered.
My friend, Lois, is one of the smartest catalogers I know, hands down. She has always kept up on cataloging trends. So, I'm really glad she started this blog!
Exciting news. Karen Calhoun, Vice President of WorldCat and Metadata Services at OCLC, has just started blogging at Metalogue: New Directions in Cataloguing and Metadata from around the World.
Metalogue is a forum for sharing thoughts on all things related to knowledge organization by and for libraries, hosted by Karen Calhoun, Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services for OCLC. Karen is joined often by friends and colleagues from all over the globe, who contribute perspectives and experiences about the current and future state of cataloguing and metadata.
Check out Planet Cataloging!
"Planet Cataloging is an automatically-generated aggregation of blogs related to cataloging and metadata designed and maintained by Jennifer Lang and Kevin S. Clarke."
Just stop what you're doing and go there! It's great!
There's been a lot of posts last week noting the arrival of the new Library of Congress Blog. The LC blog author is Matt Raymond, the Library's Director of Communications. Catalogers might find this post interesting: "Is Blogging Serializing?" Here's an excerpt:
"I got an email this morning from a colleague in the Office of Communications, who said that she was speaking to our “guru of ISSN numbers.” Here is the upshot:
Today she told me that after much debate, catalogers had decided that corporate blogs published regularly are in fact serial publications and therefore should have an ISSN number. The Library should be a model for all catalogers, she said. She promised to read and assess your blog and communicate further. Many bloggers have been requesting ISSN numbers. You may already have an ISSN number." (Emphasis mine)
I can't help but jump in with my two cents here. I really think blogs are, like most websites, integrating resources, not serials. Any serials 101 class will tell you that a serial needs to have discrete issues that remain distinct. On the other hand, an integrating resource has updates that get integrated into the whole. I guess you could consider blog posts "discrete issues"?
The comments for this post provide a lively debate about whether or not blogs should be assigned ISSN numbers. Also, here's interesting quote from the comments about the possibility of an LC cataloging blog. Matt states:
"I have to admit that much of this conversation is over my head, which is why I hope librarian-specific and/or cataloger-specific blogs are among the first we can launch once the institution-wide blogging policy is in place." (Emphasis mine)
I would surely welcome an LC cataloger blog! Come on you guys get started!
Via Notatu Dignum
Here's a new resource for cataloging and metadata librarians who want to keep track of blogs in their subject area:
Stephen Francoeur at the LACUNY Blog compiled a list of blogs about catalogs and cataloging. (I know there are a few here I need to add to my RSS reader!) Thanks, Stephen.
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