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July 26, 2006
Ex Libris Acquired by Francisco Partners
From the latest American Libraries Direct:
AL blogger Andrew Pace welcomes speculation on this automation news: “It might not be the ‘continued consolidation’ of the ILS market that has been predicted by many, including me, but it’s clearly a step in that direction. Ex Libris Group announced early this morning (not quite as early in Jerusalem, where the company is headquartered) that it will be acquired by Francisco Partners, ‘one of the world’s largest technology-focused private equity funds.’�...
Hectic Pace, July 26
Stay tuned to see what this might mean for us!!
Read Hectic Pace
Read news release by Ex Libris
Read about Francisco Partners
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July 14, 2006
New Publication from MLA/Scarecrow Press
"Bibliographic Control of Music, 1897-2000" by Richard Smiraglia, edited and compiled with J. Bradford Young has just been published by MLA/Scarecrow Press. According to the blurb on Scarecrow's website, this volume "illuminates both the history and the future of the profession."
There is also a link to the table of contents; one can only hope that the typo in the title of the introductory essay only appears on the website as it would be most unfortunate to have this typo occur in a book targeted to CATALOGERS!!
I look forward to delving into this volume, and the bibliography of the "ca. 1,000 periodical and monographic citations relevant to the organization of music in libraries"...
The details:
Smiraglia, Richard P. and J. Bradford Young. Bibliographic Control of Music, 1897-2000 (MLA Index and Bibliography Series, no. 32) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-8108-5133-4 $40.00
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July 3, 2006
RDA Prototype Announcement
From RDA-L:
RDA: Resource Description and Access is a new cataloguing code for the digital world. Built on the foundation established by AACR2, RDA will provide a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types of content and media. RDA’s first release is anticipated in mid-2008 in an online format.
While the Joint Steering Committee for AACR and the RDA Editor have been concentrating on the content of RDA, the Co-Publishers (the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) have been developing the online product. To that end, they have created a prototype for RDA Online.
The Co-Publishers have made this prototype available for you to view.
This is the same prototype that has been demonstrated to several focus groups and individual during the last two American Library Association conferences.
Some suggestions for viewing the prototype:
First, the prototype is available for viewing in four versions depending on resolution with sound and without sound (eye-readable text). Depending on your internet connection, the audio version in particular might take a few minutes to load, so please be patient.
Second, the prototype is a snapshot, created for you to view and assess the functionality of the software and not the content of the RDA rules. When viewing the prototype, please focus on it as an online tool rather than critiquing the rules that have been included as examples.
Finally, a short questionnaire has been attached to the prototype. We are very eager to receive your impressions of the prototype, to know if we’re on the right track in its development. Please take the opportunity to fill out the questionnaire. Let us hear from you while we’re in this early stage of development
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