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8230;fronting the boundaries…. Monthly Archives: June 2009. June 28, 2009. Have to take a little break from North Texas 23. June 18, 2009. I first got on Facebook two years ago, supposedly for work. I created a more-or-less professional profile (using my work location) to see if this would be a way to communicate with students at my university. I’ve also found that a number of my old friends in the Seattle area (where I lived for 21 years, until 2006) are also on Facebook, originally to keep in tou...
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Melissa in Stephenville: August 2010
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010. Cataloger humor on Twitter. Turns out I even like Fake AACR2. Better than Fake RDA. RDA and the RDA Toolkit. It's the final day of the RDA Toolkit free trial (I will not call it the "open access period," as this implies things that aren't true), so I decided to write a post about it. Even when I can find a logical starting place, if I don't consult other chapters, I won't be able to completely catalog the item. The RDA Toolkit is supposed to be the best way to use RDA: ".mos...
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Melissa in Stephenville: March 2011
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011. What do you mean, you don't have metadata experience? This has been in my drafts for a while. I finally decided to publish it. Maybe one of these days I'll publish all the other drafts I have sitting around.). If you know MARC, you have metadata experience. You may not have experience with Dublin Core or EAD or ONIX or XML or whatever else, but you. A valid worry, what with all the employers who seem to want new employees who can be put to work with little or no training.).
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Melissa in Stephenville: June 2010
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Subject heading arguments: "Gay parents" vs. "Same-sex parents". The big argument on AUTOCAT today was over the subject heading "Gay parents" vs. "Same-sex parents." There was some confusion over whether or not one authority record should have been cancelled in favor of the other (basically, "don't these mean the same thing? Hulu on the new monitor. So, my current show is Naruto Shippuden. My dad keeps calling me up to give me unasked for spoilers, so I figure it's finally time ...
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Melissa in Stephenville: November 2010
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Monday, November 29, 2010. Cross-references: what good are they? It would be nice if the cross-references of any authority record to which headings in a bibliographic record are linked were searched in subject/author/genre keyword searches (maybe even general keyword searches). If an ILS exists that can do this, I'd love to hear about it. And I'd like to know why more don't. Friday, November 12, 2010. Current big global editing project. Monday, November 8, 2010. Originally, I tried using the "cartoon" fi...
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Melissa in Stephenville: April 2014
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Downloading and opening EBSCO e-books on a Google Nexus tablet. So, last night I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep for a few hours. Since my brain wouldn't shut up, I decided to put it to use on a problem I had been wondering about for a while: how to get my library's EBSCO e-books to work on my tablet. I have no idea how these instructions would need to be modified for anything else, but I'm fairly certain iPads would need to use different software than what I'll be listing.
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Melissa in Stephenville: March 2010
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Monday, March 29, 2010. DSL audiobook cataloging changes. I'm just about done cataloging all our new audiobooks. In order to speed up the cataloging of audiobooks and, I hope, improve the way they're displayed in our catalog, here's some things I've started doing. Note to any catalogers who may stumble upon this: these are local edits only, so don't freak out. I rarely edit audiobook master records. What this means for catalog users:. I'm no longer listening to even a portion of each audiobook. Accor...
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Melissa in Stephenville: Electronic theses and dissertations
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011. Electronic theses and dissertations. I added 115 URLs and their corresponding e-resource item records to bibliographic records for theses and dissertations today. In theory, every thesis and dissertation for which we have a bibliographic record and that is available via Proquest should now be searchable as Type: Thesis/Dissertation, Location: Online Access. Yay! January 5, 2011 at 4:53 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Something cool - Amazon to MARC and IMDb to MARC.
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Melissa in Stephenville: What do you mean, you don't have metadata experience?
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011. What do you mean, you don't have metadata experience? This has been in my drafts for a while. I finally decided to publish it. Maybe one of these days I'll publish all the other drafts I have sitting around.). If you know MARC, you have metadata experience. You may not have experience with Dublin Core or EAD or ONIX or XML or whatever else, but you. A valid worry, what with all the employers who seem to want new employees who can be put to work with little or no training.).
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