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February 19, 2005
Farewell to Vancouver
Well, it's almost over!
We've attended lots of great programs the last few days. The session and poster on reorganization showed us that we're not the only ones! Particularly interesting was the presentation on the Library and Archives Canada merger.
Our poster session on our blogs was a great success as well. We had many people stop by and ask questions. I neglected in my previous post to mention the conference blog.
Well, off to another full day of sessions on the "4-Rs" (RILM, RISM, RIPM, RIDiM), the Technical Services roundtable, the Aleph Music Users Group, and whatever else can be squeezed in! The exhibits close at noon, so this is likely the last conference post.
See you on Monday!!
Posted by huism002 at 10:43 AM | Comments (0)
February 17, 2005
MLA News: Plenary Session I
The opening plenary session was devoted to libraries and commercial online music. The speakers included Tim Lloyd of Alexander Street Press (which recently acquired Classical Music Library), Justin Baker of Naxos, and Amanda Maple from Penn State. Amanda's presentation was about Penn State's experience with providing Napster for students, and how the digital music is being integrated into teaching. The other presenters told us more about commercial digital music, from their perspectives as providers.
Since there's a line of people waiting to get online, I'll sign off for now and hopefully post another update tomorrow morning!
Posted by huism002 at 4:26 PM | Comments (0)
February 16, 2005
We're Here!
We made it to Vancouver!
We're posting this from the Music Library Association opening reception and hope to make some periodic updates through Saturday.
Now it's off to see what the vendor exhibits have to offer, and to grab a bite to eat!
Posted by huism002 at 9:04 PM | Comments (0)
February 11, 2005
MLA to Meet Next Week
Kristi Bergland and Mary Huismann will be out of the office attending the Music Library Association annual meeting in Vancouver next week (2/14-18).
Please direct any music cataloging-related questions to Linda Lomker. As always, music acquisitions questions should be directed to the appropriate processor.
We hope to post some blog entries from Vancouver!
Posted by huism002 at 9:05 AM | Comments (1)
February 9, 2005
LC to Provide Machine-Generated Contents Notes
An announcement from the AUTOCAT discussion list from David Williamson of LC.
Machine-generated Contents Notes
On February 1, 2005, the Library of Congress will begin enriching
bibliographic records with scanned table of contents data in field 505,
adding information that was previously available only via 856 links. The
505 data will be generated from the table of contents information and
supplied by computer program. It will be preceded by the legend:
"Machine-generated contents note:" The 505 indicators for these
machine-generated notes will be set to '8' (No display constant generated)
and blank (Basic; single occurrence of subfield $a).
Since the scanned table of contents come in a wide variety of formats and
structures, some errors are to be expected in the placement and
configuration of the 505 textual strings. Space, hyphen, hyphen, space
will be inserted after each line break within the table of contents.
Chapter and page numbers will appear as captured from the scanned table of
contents images. The 505 data will not undergo review for punctuation.
Below is a sample 505:
505 8 $aMachine-generated contents note: PREFACE 1. Probability -- 1.1
Introduction 1 -- 1.2 Algebra of Sets 2 -- 1.3 Properties of Functions 5
-- 1.4 Matrix Algebra 13 -- 1.5 Three Approaches 16 -- 1.6 Conditional
Probability and Independence of Events 39 -- 1.7 Geometric Probability 48
-- 1.8 Miscellaneous Examples 54 -- Exercises 73 2. Univariate
Distribution -- 2.1 Random Variable 80 -- 2.2 Expectation, Variance and
Moments 89 -- 2.3 Moment Generating Function 104 -- 2.4 Characteristic
Function and Cumulants 106 -- 2.5 Some Standard Discrete Distributions 100
-- 2.6 Some Standard Continuous distributions 128 -- 2.7 Transformation of
Variables 143 -- 2.8 Miscellaneous Examples 153 -- Exercises 175 3.
Bivariate Distribution -- 3.1 Joint, Marginal and Conditional
Distributions 188 -- 3.2 Moments, Conditional Moments 200 -- 3.3
Correlation and Regression 209 -- 3.4 Transformation of Variables 215 --
3.5 Bivariate Normal Distribution 228 -- 3.6 Bivariate Dirichlet
Distribution 235 -- 3.7 Miscellaneous Examples 237 4. Multivariate
Distributions -- 4.1 Different Aspects of a Multivariate Distribution 258
-- 4.2 2, t and F-Distributions 281 -- 4.3 Correlation and Regression 296
-- 4.4 Some Standard Multivariate Distributions 309 4.5 Order Statistics
320 -- 4.6 Some Notions of Dependence 339 -- 4.7 Results on Symmetrization
348 -- 4.8 Miscellaneous Examples 353 -- Exercises 368 5. Limit theorems
-- 5.1 Chebyshev's Inequality 384 -- 5.2 Other Useful Inequalities 390 --
5.3 Convergence in Distribution 403 -- 5.4 Convergence in Probability 411
-- 5.5 The Laws of Large Numbers 419 -- 5.6 Central Limit Theorems 429 --
5.7 Miscellaneous Examples 438 -- Exercises 456
LC records with existing 856 links to table of contents texts will be
batched processed, modified and redistributed on a daily basis until all
of the approximately 60,000 records containing links from the 856 to LC's
web-based dTOC (digital table of contents) records are enhanced. The 856
links to the dTOCs will remain in the records.
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The above sample was created while testing, and has not yet gone in a
record, but it will soon. To see actual samples, you can search the LC
catalog at http://catalog.loc.gov for the following LC control numbers:
00009947
00011052
00011702
00011806
The idea isn't to provide a perfect TOC for descriptive purposes as much
as to provide additional keyword access to the book record. With the TOCs
on the web, only those searching by the search engines might hit on the
keywords when the TOC files are indexed. Now, with the keywords in the
record, users of the catalog will have an increased chance of finding
useful information by natural language keywords.
Using the 653 field was considered, but it was determined that using the
505 would be a better approach for this purpose since the data do reflect
the contents of the book as well as providing keyword access
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February 4, 2005
Recon Project Update
Watch this space for information about the Music Scores Recon Project!
We will be posting updates on the project as time permits, as well as project statistics.
Contact Kristi for further information about the project.
Posted by huism002 at 1:29 PM | Comments (0)
TS on the Move, Again!
Technical Services staff are on the move, again!
On Wednesday, 9 February, some Technical Services staff are scheduled to move into their permanent offices. The moving schedule depends on several factors, including reconstruction of the former Phase 2 area and moving of equipment.
Mary Huismann will be moving to her new office, across from the current marking room. Her new phone number will be 612-625-6658.
Contact Mary for further information at her temporary phone: 612-625-5320.
Posted by huism002 at 1:25 PM | Comments (0)
Kristi's Recital
Kristi Bergland is giving a recital tomorrow evening, Sat. Feb. 5, 7:30 pm at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral (by Loring Park) in Minneapolis.
She will be singing works by Grieg, Sibelius, Barber and Walton. Admission is free and there will be a reception following.
Click here for a map/directions.
Posted by huism002 at 1:17 PM | Comments (1)