Monthly Archives: January 2009

hathitrust vs google availability weirdness

Posted on January 29, 2009 by

Okay, figure this one out for me. Check out this Umlaut page: http://findit.library.jhu.edu/link_router/index/16793853 Umlaut contacts Google Book Search to ask about that citation, and Google says they don’t have full text, but do have a metadata record. You can click … Continue reading →

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yet more on copyright and cataloging

Posted on January 28, 2009 by

Peter Murray has written a great post analyzing some of the complex issues of copyright and our bibliographic descriptions. I wrote a comment on that post which turned huge, so I post it here too as it’s own thing.. This … Continue reading →

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Harvard Business School, expanding the bounds of copyright

Posted on January 27, 2009 by

So I already knew that Harvard Business School tried to keep as tight a rein as possible on sharing of their Case Studies–they are a large income stream for HBS.  I believe that their licensing specifically disallows you from putting … Continue reading →

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Readers Poll

Posted on January 26, 2009 by

I get the feeling that the readership of this blog has recently increased and/or diversified. I’m curious about who my audience is here. If you have a moment, and want to do me a favor, how about taking a short … Continue reading →

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enforcing catalog record copyright is in whose interest?

Posted on January 26, 2009 by

A comment made at the end of a previous post, which I thought worth expanding and elevating to it’s own post for visibility. Assume for the sake of argument that there is some copyright inherent in a cataloging record (a … Continue reading →

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How DOES worldcat.org work grouping work anyway?

Posted on January 26, 2009 by

I am interested in a specific edition of something. In this case, the 1994 Jeremy Mays translation of the lyrics to Brecht’s Threepenny Opera. (Robert MacDonald translated the book to that 1994 London production says wikipedia in the Mack The … Continue reading →

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SRU and OpenSearch

Posted on January 23, 2009 by

Some thoughts on SRU and OpenSearch in response to some off-hand comments Eric Lease Morgan made comparing the two. Disclaimer: I am not actually that familiar with SRU. I have been spending some time with the OpenSearch spec lately in … Continue reading →

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OCLC in the Guardian

Posted on January 22, 2009 by

Intersting article in the Guardian about OCLC. It is harshly critical of OCLC, specifically over OCLC’s record sharing policy attempt to monopolize access to the shared corpus. Very harsh. OCLC is not going to be pleased. While in general, I … Continue reading →

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local indexing coming?

Posted on January 21, 2009 by

I wrote in a Library Journal article a year or so ago about how federated broadcast search had some inherent technical limitations compared to metasearch supported by local indexing of records. One trick is getting metadata from our licensed search/content … Continue reading →

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The State of the Future of Cataloging

Posted on January 15, 2009 by

My History I entered library school a bit over four years ago, coming from a computer programming background. While I’ve ended up a librarian-programmer in a Systems Department, initially I actually went to library school wanting to get out of … Continue reading →

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