Google Apps for Libraries

• Notes:
  
• Ellsworth Public Library 5/14/08
• Mark Arnold
• Deer Isle/Stonington School
• Google Apps
• Sites - when to attach a .doc file and when to have the doc in Docs
• What about Google's right to use anything on your site.
• How to do specific things with Google Apps?
• How to transition from disks to Apps?
• Don't call it an email account, since that can cause problems

Reading via the index and table of contents

When I pick up a non-fiction book in a bookstore or a library I seldom begin my examination by looking at the content. Rather, I look at the table of contents to get a general overiew, and then in the index to see if it has references to people or concepts that I already associate with the topic. More atomization.

Old vs New - Cataloging rules and tags

The old way: lots and lots of rules, some of which are meant to define and then take into account the needs of the user.

The new way: let the user define her own needs and take them into account as he sees fit, and then aggregate the result, both statistically and by tagger.

April Trial: Search ALL of MARVEL! at Once

My initial impressions are here.

MaineCat - The recording of Library of Congress bibliographical data in machine form

MaineCat:

"Author Buckland, Lawrence F
Title The recording of Library of Congress bibliographical data in machine form; a report prepared for the Council on Library Resources, inc
Publisher Washington, Council on Library Resources, 1965

HOLDINGS FOR Maine Info Net CENTRAL DATABASE
REQUEST THIS ITEM
Library Shelving Location Electronic Link Call Number and Serial Holdings Request Status
Univ of Maine ORO Annex 029.7 B856 DUE 04-24-08

Edition Rev., February 1965
Phys descr x, 54 p. 22 cm
Subject Cataloging
Data tapes
Information storage and retrieval systems
Automatic Data Processing
Alt author Council on Library Resources"

I like this item.

• It predates MARC and the September 1966 Scientific American example.
• You can see element that became part of MARC.
• The internal formats they came up with are reflected in the MARC binary format.
  
• It includes verbal descriptions of the programs that translate an entry into printed output. The elements of XSLT and XSLT-FO are there.
• Henriette Avram is nowhere to be seen in the document.
• The main example card is about a JFK education speech (?). The publication date is November 23, 1964.
  

The Origins of MARC

Origins of MARC IBM punch card SciAm 9/1966 p232

OpenURL Checker

http://mshook.googlepages.com/openurlchecker.html

• Example: http://tinyurl.com/24aa7m

COinS Test

class="Z3988"
title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Focoins.info%3Agenerator&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Onward+%26+Upward+with+the+Arts+-+Farewell%2C+My+Lovely&rft.title=New+Yorker&rft.issn=0028-792X&rft.date=1936-05-16&rft.spage=20&rft.epage=22&rft.aulast=White&rft.aufirst=&rft.auinit=E.+B.&rft.au=E.+B.+White">
(Insert Default Text Here)


Look at the page source and search for ctx to find the OpenURL context object.