Technical Services Links of Interest

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Links of Interest

ALA/ALCTS - (Association for Library Collections & Technical Services) Comprised of nearly 5,000 members from across the United States and 42 countries from around the globe, ALCTS is the premier resource for information specialists in collection development, preservation, and technical services, and a leader in the development of principles, standards, and best practices for creating, collecting, organizing, delivering, and preserving information resources in all forms.

New York Technical Services Librarians (NYTSL) - One of the oldest regional groups associated with ALA/ALCTS

Planet Cataloging - Planet Cataloging is an automatically-generated aggregation of blogs related to cataloging and metadata designed and maintained by Jennifer W. Baxmeyer and Kevin S. Clarke.

Catalogablog - Library cataloging, classification, metadata, subject access, and related topics.

025.431: The Dewey Blog - Everything you always wanted to know about the Dewey Decimal Classification® system but were afraid to ask ...

Serials Cataloger- News, research, and other information of interest to serials catalogers

FRBR Blog- A weblog about FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Work, expression, manifestation, item … blog.

Cataloging Futures - The focus is the future of cataloging and metadata in libraries. The new cataloging code, RDA: Resource Description and Access, is a significant issue.

Bibliographic Wilderness - A blog by Jonathan Rochkind about library matters of digital systems and services, metadata, cataloging, and our collective effort to help people navigate the “information wilderness.”

Cooperative Cataloging Rules - This site attempts to bring together all the publicly-accessible information on metadata practices in order to help metadata creators coordinate their work.