"Cookery" Gets a Makeover

Great news on the LCSH front All of the "Cookery" headings have been changed to the much less baffling, "Cooking". So exciting!

Now, this affects roughly a squillion headings in our catalog, so it's taking me a little longer than I'd anticipated to change them all. You'll see these changes kind of rolling out over the next couple of hours. I'm plugging away though and hope to be finished by mid-day. If you see any "Cookery" headings in the catalog after today, let me know. I probably missed them.

Libraryland Gets Into the Google Books Game

Open Library, a project of the Internet Archive, has been around for a couple of years now and is a really interesting project with the lofty goal of creating a webpage for every book ever published. Since it's a wiki, they're plugging along pretty well with over 20 million records.

Tuesday, they will be offering more than a million public domain and contemporary e-book titles. There are some titles in there that are still in copyright, but are no longer sold commercially, so this will be an interesting project to watch. No doubt legal challenges will unfold and Libraryland doesn't have Google's financial might to endure protracted litigation. However, libraries getting on board with testing the boundaries of copyright in a digital age certainly doesn't hinder Google's efforts in that arena. Strange bedfellows, maybe?

Open Library

Digital Lending Library (Internet Archive Announcement)

Libraries Have a Novel Idea (WSJ)

LCSH "Literature, Comparative" Becomes "Comparative Literature"

The title says is all, really.

The Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH)

Literature, Comparative

has been changed to

Comparative literature

I've updated our catalog accordingly.

Not an earth-shattering change, but it affected an awful lot of bib records, so I thought I'd better give you all a heads-up.

JSTOR articles in WorldCat.org

Saw this announcement in the OLAC (Online Audiovisual Catalogers) Newsletter and thought you all might be interested. (Note: JSTOR articles do not appear to be indexed in WorldCat via FirstSearch - if you find otherwise, please share!)

JSTOR Now Indexed in WorldCat.org

Authenticated scholars and researchers with online access to full-text content in JSTOR can now locate and connect to articles through WorldCat.org. Over 4.5 million JSTOR article-level records from more than 1,000 journals, selected monographs, and other scholarly content are now indexed in WorldCat.org, the Web destination for discovery of materials in libraries worldwide. JSTOR records are delivered in WorldCat.org search results. Scholars and researchers using WorldCat.org can now identify content in JSTOR and connect to the full-text using the authorization provided by their library. ... WorldCat.org indexing of JSTOR metadata helps researchers easily identify resources in the collection alongside other materials relevant to their work. An authorization is required for access to full-text materials in JSTOR.

Technical Snag during Ethics Training

I'm not sure exactly why this happened, but while I was taking the Ethics Training test aka assessment today, I saved an individual answer, which the instructions gave as an option. I didn't realize until after completing the test that part of the screen had frozen and none of my answers were recorded. So I recommend that you not save individual answers, but instead wait until you finish all the questions and then click "Save All". I was using Firefox, but I don't know if that made any difference.

New LCSH of Interest

Lots of interesting subject heading changes coming down the pipe, but I wanted to call your attention to this one as I figured it might be heavily used.

War on Terrorism, 2001- is now War on Terrorism, 2001-2009. The scope note for the authority record gives a pretty good explanation.

Here are entered works on the events, metaphorically referred to as a "war," consisting of military operations, diplomatic activities, and other counterterrorist measures undertaken by the United States during the period from September 11, 2001 to the end of the administration of George W. Bush.

If you're looking for governmental antiterrorist measures before or after the Bush administration, see Terrorism--Prevention.