dspace.org – Home DSpace is the software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories.  It is free and easy to install “out of the box” and completely customizable to fit the needs of any organization.     DSpace preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital [...]

YourLibrarySite Now Supports SOPAC 2 – 11/10/2008 – Library Journal External support and installation options for SOPAC 2 now available Drupal-based OPAC interface offers feedback options Palos Verde Library District web site revamp SOPAC 2, the latest rising star in the world of patron-friendly online catalogs, has new support and installation options provided by web [...]

Happy Birthday, ‘Big Red Book’ (August 1998) – Library of Congress Information Bulletin “Associate Librarian for Library Services Winston Tabb briefly traced the history of the work since 1898, when LC catalogers formally adapted the American Library Association dictionary listing of subject headings. In 1916, the Library published under its own name the first edition [...]

Sears List of Subject Headings, 19th Edition – Preface “Since the first edition in 1923, the Sears List has served the unique needs of small and medium-sized libraries, suggesting headings appropriate for use in their catalogs and providing patterns and instructions for adding new headings as they are required. The successive editors of the List [...]

Guidelines on subject access to individual works of fiction, drama, etc. [WorldCat.org] A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. Though the payoffs are significant for reference librarians, readers’ advisors, and library users, adding and maintaining subject access for works of imagination–fiction, poetry, and drama, for example–can mean a lot of work [...]