Kurt Groetsch @ OldTasty.com

So after reading Mark’s writeup of Patrick Wilson’s “Two Kinds of Power: an Essay on Bibliographical Control” I was intrigued enough to hustle off to Google Book Search to see if they’d scanned a copy already. They had. [Disclaimer: I work on the Google Book Search team.] Of course, because it’s still in copyright, it’s […]

Cleverly-named blogs about authority control in libraries.

Darren posts:
This morning I was doing a little research at the library in Dupo, IL. The only other person there besides the librarians was a normal-lookin’ dude with a shaved head, sitting at one of the computer terminals. After I’d been reading a local-history book for a few minutes, I glanced over and noticed that […]

An appropriate poem for unpacking box after box of books after a move:

Lang, Andrew. “Ballade of His Books.” The Bookmart: A Monthly Magazine of Literary and Library Intelligence, Vol. 3, No. 25 (June, 1885), p. 3.

For your viewing pleasure: an exhibit of decorative end papers from drawger.com.

The more I work with books in the digital realm, the greater my love for the physical object becomes. Go figure.

One of the pleasures of my job is working with the material the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is digitizing as part of our relationship with the Open Content Alliance. We’ve digitized almost 1000 items thus far, most of them pre-1923 and out of copyright. And among these items are some real gems, such as […]

Gmail somehow thinks that an email discussion of library servers webservers means I’m interested in Mormon ringtones:
Mormon Ringtone
Send this complimentary ringtone to your phone right now!
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What makes a ringtone Mormon anyway? Can I get “If You Could Hie to Kolob” on my cellphone? Because if so, I’m there…

This time until Feb. 20th. Keep an eye on my Flickr photostream, and happy Chinese New Year!

Few things aggravate me more than inaccurate or otherwise poor-quality metadata. (It’s no wonder that I wound up in a library and information science graduate program, and even less surprising that I gravitated towards cataloging and metadata creation.) The place this passion for accurate description shows up in my personal life is in my iTunes […]

You know your library school education is really taking when you start having dreams about the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR).