United States

OLAC Conference

The next OLAC conference will be held October 14-17, 2010 in Macon, Georgia.The Program Committee has created a blog for potential attendees to discuss the conference.We invite you to share your ideas, and to take the breakout session interest survey.From an e-mail on OLAC-L. ...

Blacklight

A new version of Blacklight is available.Blacklight is a free and open source ruby-on-rails based discovery interface (a.k.a. “next-generation catalog”) especially optimized for heterogeneous collections. You can use it as a library catalog, as a front end for a digital repository, or...

Full ISBD Examples

New from IFLA, Full ISBD ExamplesFull ISBD Examples, a collection of full bibliographic descriptions following the ISBD guidelines, has been published. It is a supplement to the preliminary consolidated edition of the International Standard Bibliographic Description. ...

DC Conference Papers

Papers from the Dublin Core Conference are now available. Some of the papers include:Modeling Classification Systems in SKOS: Some Challenges and Best-Practice Recommendations / Michael Panzer, Marcia Lei ZengUsing Metadata for Query Refinement and Recommendation / Jian Qin, Xiaozhong Liu, Xia Li...

Random Hacks of Kindness

Random Hacks of Kindness might be of interest to any library coders living in the SF Bay Area.Random Hacks of KindnessThe Disaster Relief CodejamWhat is Random Hacks of Kindness? It is an initiative that brings together disaster relief experts and software engineers to work on identifying key cha...

Ident Engine