The American Library Association’s recent Midwinter Meeting in Dallas provided a number of updates on the immensely complex and significant transition away from the MARC communication format as well as the implementation of the Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloging code.
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Library of Congress Officials Say MARC Transition, Implementation of RDA ‘On Track’
January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
ALA Midwinter 2012 Tech Highlights: iPad Kiosks, Social Integration, Freading, and More
January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
At the 2012 American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting, held January 20-24 in Dallas, LJ was on the exhibit floor taking a look at library tech companies’ latest wares. Here are a few of the highlights.
ALA Midwinter 2012: Librarians Strive To Navigate Tenuous Landscape of Digital Publishing
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
From exploiting linked open data to rethinking how the ALA operates, librarians strive to navigate “the tenuous landscape” of digital resources. Hopes, Hit Lists, and Pilgrims
ALA Midwinter 2012: Head of RLUK Calls Research Works Act ‘Audacious in the Extreme’
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
David Prosser, the executive director of Research Libraries UK (RLUK), says the Research Works Act introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in December is “frankly ridiculous” and an attack on open access.
ALA Midwinter 2012: RUSA’s Outstanding Books of the Year
January 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Collection Development and Evaluation Section (a part of the Reference and User Services Association, or RUSA) has announced its selections of the most outstanding works of 2012
ALA Midwinter 2012: When Looking for a Job, Remember to Smile
January 23, 2012 By 4 Comments
Job seekers in the library field need to remember that recruiters often highly value “soft skills.”
“First and foremost, I look at how they present themselves, how well they communicate, and I like when they smile a lot,” said Megan Alpaugh, a staff recruiter for the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA.
ALA Midwinter 2012: From Consumer Electronics Through Post-ILS, Top Tech Trends Run the Gamut
January 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This morning’s Top Technology Trends (TTT) panel at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Dallas, TX, attracted its usual large audience as speakers singled out topics like user expectations, analytics, systems integration, and data interoperability as areas for the library community to watch.
UPDATED: ALA Midwinter 2012: Fair Use a Good Argument Even in an Age of Mass Digitization
January 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Librarians frequently do not apply their fair use rights under the Copyright Act in a robust manner when engaged in digitization projects, and they focus, instead, on risk aversion, to the detriment of scholarship and their patrons.
ALA Midwinter 2012: Round Table Addresses Competing Demands on Reference Staff and Resources
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ALA Midwinter 2012: ALA To Meet With Top Executives of Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Penguin on Ebook Lending
January 22, 2012 By 7 Comments
Time to “move some dialog with these publishers forward,” said ALA President Molly Raphael at the Working Group on Digital Content and Libraries meeting.
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