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Amigos Offers Custom Cataloging Service

Submitted by terri.m on Wed, 10/17/2012 - 15:26

Do you have 12 theses sitting on a back shelf waiting for original cataloging? How about that donation of genealogy titles? Is there a backlog of maps that would be a great addition to your collection? Your hidden collections are of unique value both locally— to the community you serve, and globally— to library patrons around the world.

Face-to-Face RDA Training Scheduled for Columbia, MO

Submitted by terri.m on Wed, 10/17/2012 - 12:25

Both the Library of Congress (LC) and U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) have announced they are moving forward with full implementation of Resource Description and Access (RDA) on March 31, 2013. Now that implementation is around the corner, is your library ready for RDA?

Linked Data for Libraries Explained in YouTube Video

Submitted by chris.b on Thu, 09/13/2012 - 14:28

WorldCat.org now offers the largest set of linked bibliographic data on the web. With the addition of Schema.org mark-up to all book, journal, and other bibliographic resources in WorldCat.org, the entire publicly available version of WorldCat is now available for use by intelligent web crawlers like Google and Bing that can make use of this metadata in search indexes and other applications.

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