Tag Archives: Karen Coyle

Free Drinks Tomorrow


Karen Coyle writes about the Library of Congress and their follow-up to the lcsh.info shuttering last fall.  In LC discovers infinity, she points out that at ALA Midwinter they not only stated that they recognized the value of the service, … Continue reading

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Using Our Time Wisely


Karen Coyle wrote an excellent post about OCLC’s delayed implementation of the records licensing policy.  An exerpt: Those of us who promote open access must use this time wisely. First, we need to get some solid legal advice. It’s clear … Continue reading

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The Missing Link in the ILS


Karen Coyle writes about what is needed for the libraries of the world that don’t have the resources needed to install and use a full-featured integrated library system (ILS). There must be a minor psychic link involved (don’t worry Karen, … Continue reading

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Subjects and Messes


Karen Coyle (again) has written a great post on the subject of the Dewey Decimial Classification system, the Library of Congress Classification system, and Library of Congress Subject Headings. She highlights what, to my view, is one of the major … Continue reading

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Bibliographic Entity-Relationships


Karen Coyle has written a post on Coyle’s InFormation that I feel greatly helps to explain why it can be so complex to structure bibliographic information. I first encountered Entity-Relationships (note:  right now this link is not a great introduction … Continue reading

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isbndb.com


isbndb.com is one of several websites that allow you to search for books by isbn, as well as the usual title/author/keyword searching.  Give it a try:  grab a nearby book (if you are like me, there are quite a few … Continue reading

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Deceptive Copyright Notices


Deceptive Copyright Notices is a post by Karen Coyle post about those notices that restrict the reader’s/viewer’s rights beyond what is allowable under copyright, and an interesting complaint filed with the FTC. Also included is a neat reversal of the FBI … Continue reading

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Copyright Discussion


On Coyle’s InFormation, a blog written by the ever-interesting Karen Coyle, there is a discussion about the transcripts of a Section 108 Study Group meeting hosted by the Library of Congress on the topic of copyright, libraries and digitization.  These meetings are happening … Continue reading

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Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data meeting summary


The official summary of the Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data meeting held by the Library of Congress at Google’s headquarters last week has been posted. Karen Coyle’s blog has her notes from the meetings. from Coyle’s InFormation and Catalogablog

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Library of Congress Meetings


The Library of Congress has formed the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, and will be having their first public meeting tomorrow, March 8th, at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The truly interesting thing is that anyone … Continue reading

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