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MARBI Matters
MARBI Meeting Saturday, June 25 By way of introduction, I’ve been a MARBI watcher and participant since about 1988, rotating back and forth from the “Big Table†(as Liaison from the American...
View ArticleXML and Authority Control
The XML and Authority Control program, sponsored by the LITA-ALCTS CCS Authority Control in the Online Environment Interest Group (ACIG) took place in a dim, cavernous room in McCormick Center,...
View ArticleMARBI Matters
Saturday, Jan. 21, 10:30-12:30, Plaza San Antonio Marriott, Hidalgo A-B Here we all sit, the MARBIes at the big horseshoe table arrangement, the Peanut Gallery ranged along each long side, preparing...
View ArticleFiggy Formats
Figgy Formats: the MARC Formats Interest Group (MFIG), Saturday, January 21, Palacio del Rio, Del Ray North The MFIG meeting, as is its custom, was focused on a particular issue for its meeting:...
View ArticleMARBI Matters, pt. 2
Sunday 1/22/06, 1:30-3:30 p.m. (Sheraton Gunter Hotel Yellow Rose) The meeting started out with an update on RDA by Jennifer Bowen and the beginning of a slightly scary discussion about how MARC might...
View ArticleMARBI Matters, pt. 3
Sunday, January 22, 2006 4:00-6:00 p.m. (Sheraton Gunter Hotel Yellow Rose) In the second Sunday session of MARBI, the agenda order of the discussion papers was reversed. Discussion Paper No. 2006-DP03...
View ArticleStandards, Identifiers, and all that Good Stuff
LITA Standards IG, Saturday, June 24, 2006 Managing Identifiers Moderator, Pat Stevens Pat told a story about attending an ISO meeting in Asia where one topic was the international trade in ring tones....
View ArticleA new corner of the LITA Blog: Standards Watch
It goes without saying that most of us spend our days busily going about our work and only rarely stick our heads above water. Time passes quickly, though, and now that the fall is well underway for...
View ArticleNo Discussion Discussion on RDA
Saturday 10:30-12:30: ALCTS/ Electronic Resources Interest Group [NOTE: I'd promised to blog this session for the new ALCTS NRMIG Metadata Blog, but since one person at ALCTS must approve all potential...
View ArticleLibraries and Standards
I’d like to draw everyone’s attention to an important podcast interview by Scott Mace of Open Source Conversations with Karen Coyle. The interview is linked from Karen’s blog, “Coyle’s...
View ArticleRecommended reading
The latest NISO Newsline arrived in my email mailbox last week, and provided its usual brisk overview of the standards landscape. I’d like to recommend to other LITA members that a subscription to...
View Article“Structures and Standards for Bibliographic Data†(pt.1)
This second in a series of ‘hearings’ under the aegis of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control occurred at ALA Headquarters in Chicago, in a large spare room...
View Article“Structures and Standards for Bibliographic Data” (pt. 2)
The last speaker was Jennifer Bowen from the University of Rochester. Jennifer’s most recent claim to fame is as the ALA representative to the Joint Steering Committee for RDA development, but she...
View ArticleThinking About the Standards Environment
As part of my work life (not to mention in my role as LITA Standards Coordinator) I subscribe to a lot of discussion lists. Many of you do the same, and I’m betting you’re like me—you don’t...
View ArticleAnother Standards Opportunity
Betty Landesman, ALA Representative to NISO, sent a recent email around with some information about ISO/NP 27730, the International Standard Collection Identifier (ISCI). This is a new project proposal...
View ArticleERMS in Washington
One of the best sessions I attended at Annual this year was ERMS Continues: More on Standards and Systems, presented by the ALCTS Electronic Resources Interest Group. Linda Miller (Library of Congress)...
View ArticleSuccess and Failure
I was really looking forward to watching the webcast this afternoon of the recommendations of the Library of Congress’s Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (their website is at:...
View ArticlePursuing Standards Participation
Part of my brief as LITA Standards Coordinator is to encourage LITA members to participate in the process of standards development, and unfortunately it’s still a real challenge to keep abreast of...
View ArticleAnother ISO Standard: Bibliographic Data Element Directory
I’ve been informed that another ISO Committee Draft has been issued for ballot: ISO/DIS 8459, Information and documentation – Bibliographic data element directory. Here’s the summary: “This...
View ArticleLong Term Preservation of Electronic Records
I hope the title of this post has gotten your attention—isn’t this an issue that we’re all thinking about? Apparently ISO has been, too, because they’ve just issued ISO/PDTR 26102 Information...
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