Taxodiary – Library

An Irish Learning Opportunity

By Melody Smith|March 4th, 2016|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on An Irish Learning Opportunity

Okay, it is Irish only in that it is being held on St. Patrick’s Day, but it will be a learning opportunity.

Heather Hedden, senior […]

Learning Opportunity in Metadata and Book Sales

By Melody Smith|March 2nd, 2016|metadata, News|Comments Off on Learning Opportunity in Metadata and Book Sales

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) is offering an in-person or webinar learning opportunity on Wednesday, March 16th at 1:00-4:00 p.m. (EST).

The topic will […]

The Value of History

By admin|February 29th, 2016|News, Standards|Comments Off on The Value of History

In Ireland 1922, Free State forces led the occupation of the Public Records Office of the Four Courts as part of the Battle of Dublin. As […]

Fighting for Copyrights

By admin|February 4th, 2016|News|Comments Off on Fighting for Copyrights

Earlier this week a multitude of authors, publishers, rights organizations, and copyright experts from around the world filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting […]

More Access to Databases

By Melody Smith|January 28th, 2016|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on More Access to Databases

The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), in collaboration with Boston University School of Medicine has announced the launch of the Health Literacy Tool […]

Library Data Open to Access

By Melody Smith|January 20th, 2016|metadata, News|Comments Off on Library Data Open to Access

Helsinki University Library’s open data web service offers the vast majority of the library’s data in easy-to-use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. This interesting news […]

Archiving History

By admin|January 19th, 2016|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Archiving History

The new year starts differently for everyone. For New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, it begins with the daunting task of computerizing municipal records. […]

Digitizing Historic Collection is a Huge Undertaking

By Melody Smith|January 5th, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on Digitizing Historic Collection is a Huge Undertaking

The British Library is in the process of digitizing the Klencke Atlas. The Klencke is the world’s second largest and one of some 50,000 maps and […]

Being Open

By Melody Smith|December 10th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Being Open

Over the years, open access has evolved beyond a core of faculty and librarian activists and achieved acceptance across many libraries and publishers alike. […]

Partnership Brings Value to Historical Documents

By admin|November 12th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Partnership Brings Value to Historical Documents

EBSCO Information Services has partnered with Portico in an effort to preserve digital collections from its Digital Archives products, mostly historical source materials used […]