Taxodiary – Library

Censorship in Books

By admin|September 11th, 2015|News, reference|Comments Off on Censorship in Books

Since it is Friday and it has been a long week (five days of work crammed into four), this different yet interesting information seemed […]

Public Reading Pays Off

By admin|August 25th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Public Reading Pays Off

The Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca embarked on a new initiative that promotes literacy while encouraging residents to take advantage of municipal public transportation. For […]

New Partnership Enhances Services

By admin|August 24th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on New Partnership Enhances Services

Handshake Software, Inc. and LexisNexis Legal & Professional recently announced the integration of the LexisNexis® Digital Library with Handshake Software’s Portal & Search for […]

Learning Opportunity Next Week

By admin|August 20th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Learning Opportunity Next Week

Powerful tools are needed to manage information, both digital and traditional. An integrated library system (ILS) can help with managing knowledge, content and digital assets, […]

Metadata Collection Going Away

By admin|August 13th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata Collection Going Away

The Australian Pictorial Thesaurus (APT) was a collection of topic terms for indexing Australian images. We just received word that the APT will no […]

New Digital Assets Available

By admin|August 13th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on New Digital Assets Available

The British Library is the largest library collection in the world, with more than 170 million items in its catalog. Interestingly, though, only 14 […]

Archiving Sound

By admin|August 11th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Archiving Sound

The Macaulay Library at Cornell University is home to the world’s largest and oldest collection of nature recordings. Recently, they uploaded and made available their […]

Grants for Digital Archiving

By admin|August 4th, 2015|indexing, News|Comments Off on Grants for Digital Archiving

A unique opportunity comes around once a year with the GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program. With funding provided by The Recording Academy (aka The National […]

Where to Start?

By admin|July 17th, 2015|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Where to Start?

The Library of Congress started taking steps in 2010 toward preserving the nation’s increasingly digital heritage — by acquiring Twitter’s entire archive of tweets […]

Metadata and Findability

By Melody Smith|July 15th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata and Findability

When introduced, metadata was basic and easy. It was breadcrumbs that led you to the real data or file. Once you understood the right […]