LibraryThing meets LibraryScience
LibraryThing now has a librarian (thingamabrarian!) amongst its stacks, who will be “generally helping raise the library-science quotient of LibraryThing.”
have i said how much i love my LibraryThing?
I just stumbled upon news that a year from now, in January 2007, the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) will transition from a 10-digit number to a 13-digit number. This change will ensure that the world does not run out of those quirky numbers that uniquely identify published books.
ISBN-13 for Dummies (pdf) explains this transition quite nicely.
What does this mean for libraries? ISBNs touch many aspects of libraries, including searching, cataloguing, interlibrary loans, and acquisitions.
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) article here has a Librarian’s ISBN FAQ. The International Standards Organization (ISO) article here talks about the revision of the ISO 2108 standard, and systems that librarians, publishers, and booksellers need to review.
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My barcode bowl would have been slightly kewler if I had used a proper ISBN…
HELLO my barcode is
my Cereals Solutions bowl painted at the Hot Pot Studio.
Google has become by far one of the most widely-used search engines. This month, they launched the Google Librarian Newsletter:
This newsletter was conceived at the 2005 ALA conference in Chicago, where Google hosted a booth in the exhibit hall. We spent three days chatting with librarians about Google: what you liked, what you didn’t like, and where you saw opportunities to work together to help people find useful, relevant information.
The first issue features “How does Google decide what result goes at the top of the list?”
