The RDA blog is a blog on RDA, a new library cataloguing standard that provides instructions and guidelines on formulating data for resource description and discovery, organized based on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), intended for use by libraries and other cultural organizations replacing Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2)
How do libraries serve network people? How are library organization, services and technologies co-evolving with the behaviours of their users? This blog looks at library logistics, collaborative sourcing, the collective collection, and evolving metadata and bibliographic practices. It is also interested in how libraries support changing research and learning needs, and on how the curatorial traditions of archives, libraries and museums come together in the digital environment. These issues touch on broader Web 2.0 questions, and on organizational responses.
This blog is hosted by the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
The LITA blog features original content by LITA members on technologies and trends relevant to librarians. Our writers represent a variety of perspectives, from library students to public, academic, and special librarians.
The blog also delivers announcements about LITA programming, conferences, and other events, and serves as a place for LITA committees to share information back with the community if they so choose.
The Metadata blog is the official blog of the Metadata Interest Group (MIG), an interest group of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services division of the American Library Association.
In addition to reporting on Interest Group activities, ALA conference sessions relating to metadata, the blog is a central place to find and share items of interest to the library metadata world. Contributions include summaries of articles or research, links to educational opportunities, calls for papers, descriptions of interesting projects, conference reports, requests for assistance, or anything else of potential interest to the community. Posts may contain original content or link to existing content, as appropriate.
Informed is an online space for information professionals, and those with an interest on how information issues impact on society. The establishment of this blog is the result of discussions between Ian Clark, Elly O’Brien and Jennie Findlay, centering on the perceived need for a neutral online space for information professionals to explore issues of relevance to both the information sector, and to those outside of it. To this end, this space has been created in the hope that discussions of relevant issues can be hosted and explored.