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Connexions Library

Cataloging as Radical Practice
Cushing, Lincoln
Article
2014
Explores the extent to which new technologies and institutional practices are offering opportunities for community input in building/correcting/amplifying catalogue records.
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Website
An open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working group...

Sources Library

Can You Recommend a Good Book on Indexing?
Collected Reviews on the Organization of Information
Weinberg, Bella Hass
1998
In-depth reviews focusing on key considerations in the organization and retrieval of organization.
Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
Wright, Alex
2014
The first English- language biography of Paul Otlet.
Library of Congress Authorities
Using Library of Congress Authorities, you can browse and view authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations; and download authority records in MARC format for use in a local...
The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries
Mann, Thomas
2007
An examination of the overall principles and practices of both reference service and cataloguing operations in the promotion of scholarly research, pointing out important differences not just in conte...
What is Going on at the Library of Congress?
Mann, Thomas
2006
What is going on at the Library of Congress? Several recent decisions by the current LC administration have produced firestorms of protest, both inside and outside the Library, that LC is abdicating ...
Will Google's Keyword Searching Eliminate the Need for LC Cataloging and Classification?
Mann, Thomas
2005
Google Print does not "change everything" regarding the need for professional cataloging and classification of books; its limitations make cataloging and classification even more important to research...

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Docs Populi
Documents for the public
Website
Dedicated to documenting and publishing oppositional artwork of the late 20th century.