Re: [CODE4LIB] Distribution of collections by DDC or UDC?

2015-06-14 Thread Ranti Junus
There's a mailing list specific for Collection Development librarians although it mostly consists of announcements. The list is moderated. http://serials.infomotions.com/colldv-l/ They're planning to move to a new home under ALA's Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS)

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto discovery of Dewey, UDC

2015-06-14 Thread LeVan,Ralph
Well, that's a little unfair. As I understand it, they were trying to migrate to a new database and something broke badly. Working on that uncovered a number of other problems that have to be resolved as well. Ralph From: William Denton Sent: ?Sunday?, ?June? ?14?, ?201

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto discovery of Dewey, UDC

2015-06-14 Thread William Denton
On 12 June 2015, LeVan,Ralph wrote: This is as close to an official statement as I can find: http://www.oclc.org/developer/news/2015/dewey-down.en.html "We've decided to take Dewey.info offline for the time being. Further investigation identified architectural improvements that must be imple

[CODE4LIB] ProjectARCC (archives & climate change)

2015-06-14 Thread Casey Davis
Greetings Code4Libbers, If you are a digital archive developer, and you are concerned about the impact of climate change on the archival profession and the history we seek to preserve, then this email is for you. I'm emailing today to tell you about a new initiative known as ProjectARCC