One of the most interesting things that the Library of Congress has been up to over the past few months is their Flickr uploads. Their most recent uploads from the New York Herald are wonderful, and I’ll share some of my favorites below. Here’s a link to their photostream, where all these images come from:Library [...]
Archive for January, 2010
January 29, 2010
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New Fun Photos from the Library of Congress
By Jason W. Dean in Applications, Culture, Digital Libraries, Digitization, Library, Technology
January 28, 2010
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Is Cataloging a Dying Specialty?
By Jason W. Dean in Cataloging, Library, Library Science, SchoolAs a fledgling librarian interested in cataloging, the question “Is cataloging a dying specialty?” is one I have reflected upon at length. My answer to that question, is simply “no.” Like so many emphatic statements, though, this one comes with exceptions and explanations. However, let me expound upon my “no” with three points. First, someone [...]
January 27, 2010
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The New Apple Product
By Jason W. Dean in Apple, Culture, iPad, Librarianship, Library, TechnologyReaders, I feel pretty confident in assuming that you have heard that Apple is going to announce a new tablet based product later today. Honestly, I have no insight to share about the tablet, but this opinion piece by Derek Powazek helps frame the potential for the massive changes that the new Apple product might [...]
January 26, 2010
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Cataloging Thoughts
By Jason W. Dean in Cataloging, LibraryIn my classification class this week, our professor asked some very interesting questions, which I would like to share with you here, along with my responses:Is it true that the more information we provide in a record about an item, the better?My initial response to this question is no. Creating a good bibliographic record is [...]
January 25, 2010
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Happy 101 Award
By Jason W. Dean in Personal, UpdatesHappy 101 AwardWell, thanks to the super cool Erin Dorney over at Library Scenester, I am happy to say that I this wee blog is a recipient of a Happy 101 award. What is that? Well, frankly, she knows more about it than I do, so allow me to quote her:It’s basically one of those [...]
