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Friday, April 11th, 2008

Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN) – Italian National Library Service

Cari utenti di LibraryThing.it, abbiamo appena aggiunto* una nuova fonte per la catalogazione di libri italiani, l’OPAC del Servizio Bibliografico Nazionale (SBN), una rete di oltre 3200 biblioteche. Lo trovate tra le fonti italiane sotto il suo nome inglese: Italian National Library Service.
Buona catalogazione a tutti!

Casey just announced 669 cataloging sources few days ago, but now we have just reached 681 sources! Among the new sources there’s also the Italian National Library Service.

* Si, ci abbiamo messo un po’, ma c’era un bug che non riuscivamo a risolvere. Un grazie speciale a Casey che ha sopportato tutte le mie lamentele in nome della community italiana e alla fine ha trovato la soluzione!

Photo credit: “Italy!…Here We Come!” photo by Flikr user Hvnly, used under a CC-Attribution license

Labels: italy, new libraries, z39.50

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    • Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

    Common Knowledge in your library

    What just happened. Yesterday saw two huge announcements I’m loathe to “push down.”

    (What it didn’t see was an April Fools message, although some took the 160% increase in sources for one! Does this mean we get to fool people later on this year?)

    Common Knowledge in your library.

    Today we’ve introduced our “Common Knowledge” feature directly into your catalog—allowing members to look at and edit series information, important places and the rest directly in their catalog.

    To look at it, go to your catalog and choose the “edit” link to the right of the A, B, C, D, E styles. You’ll see a number of CK fields as options. To edit CK fields, just double-click in the cell. A CK editing “lightbox” will pop up (see right).

    Some thoughts. On one level, this is a minor feature. The data was always a click away. But I suspect it will substantially change members’ relationship to Common Knowledge—and make it grow all the faster. Together with my introduction of pages for member’s series, CK now “does” something.

    Caveats. Right now you can’t sort by CK fields, and you can’t search by them. Sorting is doable, although it will take some sort. Searching is going to be harder, frankly. But it’s not out of the question. Lastly, we still haven’t solved CK language issues, so you may get series information in a language you don’t understand.

    Discuss it here    .

     

    Labels: april fools, common knowledge, early reviewers, LTER, new feature, new features, new libraries

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    • Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

    669 Data Sources!

    In our continued quest to give our members the best data possible, we’ve added 417 new cataloging sources from around the world to LibraryThing.

    It’s a lot to take in at once. We’ve added or greatly increased our support in a number of areas; here are some of the highlights:

    • Chinese: Academica Sinica, Feng Chia University, Lingnan Uniersity, National Cheng-chi University Libraries, Zhejiang Provincial Library

    • Russian: Moskow Library Network, Russian State Library

    • Czech: NK Praha, VK Olomouc, Moravian Library in Brno, Mìstská knihovna Prostìjov

    • Thai: Srinakharinwirot University

    • Arabic: United Arab Emirates University, American University of Cairo, International Islamic University Malaysia

    • Portuguese: Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas da Universidade de Lisboa, Biblioteca Municipal Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Biblioteca Municipal de Ponte de Lima

    • Lithuanian: National Library of Lithuania, Lithuanian Union Catalogue

    • Polish: National Library of Poland

    • Estonian: Estonian Union Catalog, Tartu University Library

    • German: Südwestdeutscer Bibliotheksverbund, Juristisches Seminar der Universität Tübingen, Universität Basel

    • Seminaries: Asbury College and Theological Seminary, Wheeling Jesuit University, Eastern Cluster of Lutheran Seminaries, Princeton Theological Seminary

    • Military libraries: United States Military Academy, United States Navel Academy

    • Colleges: Middlebury, Wellesley, Dartmouth, Carleton, Bard

    • Museums/Special collections: Smithsonian Institution Research Information System, Folger Shakespeare Library, Museum of Modern Art

    • Consortia/Union Catalogs: New England Library Consortium, SELCO, Merrimack Valley Library Consortium, LIBROS Consortium, MARMOT Consortium

    • Universities: McGill, Princeton, Georgetown, Duke, Rutgers, Ohio State, Colorado

    • Large public libraries: New York, San Francisco, Denver, D.C., Detroit, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minneapolis

    • State Libraries: New York State Library, State Library of Florida, State Library of Pennsylvania, Texas State Library

    That’s a pretty good mix, but the vast majority we added were US or Canadian libraries, even though we already had plenty of both. We’re still pretty weak in some areas, and completely missing in others. We use a protocol called Z39.50 to get book data from libraries. Quite simply, these are all the Z39.50 servers we could find info for and could get working with our software. We’d love to have thousands more, from all corners of the globe. Any library that has a Z39.50 server that would like to be on LibraryThing just needs to send me their connection info and I will add them.

    All of these have been tested fairly thoroughly, but I’m sure there will be problems with some of them. Z39.50 is fickle and complex, and the servers are often unreliable. So some problems may be caused by misconfiguration on our part, and some may be due to circumstances and servers we can’t control. Let us know when there are problems, and we’ll do what we can.

    Labels: milestones, new libraries, z39.50

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    • Thursday, January 17th, 2008

    ScienceLibraryThing

    Following our release of The British Library, we’re continuing to offer new sources of data for your cataloging pleasure. Today, we’ve added 22 science and technology libraries from around the world: Academy of Natural Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Cal Poly – Pomona, Carnegie Mellon University, Central Scientific Agricultural Library of Russia, Cracow University of Technology Library, Earth Sciences Information Centre, Georgia Tech University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Mountaineers Library, National Agricultural Library, National Park Service Union Library Catalog, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New York Botanical Garden, Nizhni Novgorod Regional State University Scientific Library, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Perm State Technical University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences – Siberian Branch, Tennessee Tech University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

    Labels: new libraries, science, science libraries

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    • Thursday, January 10th, 2008

    LawLibraryThing

    In celebration, the Supreme Court has changed its motto. Thanks guys!

    Following our release of the British Library as a source on LibraryThing, we’re going to be adding a bunch more specialized data sources.

    Today, we’ve released thirteen law libraries: University of Texas Tarlton Law Library, University of Pennsylvania Law Library, Jenkins Law Library, Yeshiva University College of Law, Southern University Law Center, Seton Hall University Law Library, Pepperdine University School of Law, Massachusetts School of Law, Louisiana State University Law Center, Los Angeles County Law Library, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Columbia University Law School and Cincinnati Law Library.

    Supreme Court photo by Flickr member Kjetil Ree, licensed as Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic, with shameless edits by Tim.

    Labels: law libraries, legal, new libraries

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