Gary Green's Blog – March 2010 Archive (3)

Thoughts about RDA

I've written a couple of short posts about RDA (Resource Description & Access) on my blog, which some of you may be interested in. If you're not a cataloguer you may not be aware that RDA is the replacement for AACR2 - acknowledging that digital resources need guidelines for…

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Added by Gary Green on March 30, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Using Trailmeme

I've just finished a series of posts on my blog about using Trailmeme. As the website puts it "A trail is a (partially) sequenced collection of digital objects, such as webpages. A trail can be a straight sequence of pages or contain

branches..." Unlike traditional bookmarking, you can link sites together using trails, therefore creating a route along related online materials.… Continue

Added by Gary Green on March 1, 2010 at 5:07pm — No Comments

Knobbling the Winter Olympic Catalogue Results

On my personal blog I recently wrote a blog post about fudging catalogue records, so that I could link easily from Twitter to a subset of catalogue records. This was in an attempt to direct followers of our Library Service Twitter account to library stock related to the Winter Olympics. In summary, this involved coming up…

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Added by Gary Green on March 1, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments