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Calling Melvil Dewey :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

"In May, the library announced its first major change, which called for an end to the creation of “series authority records” as part of its classification system. These classifications — used by most, if not all, top research institutions — are meant to help scholars distinguish between different volumes of law, medical and other academic texts and journals. In effect, catalog records for new books will no longer indicate if they belong to a series."

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Genre/Form Headings for Radio Programs

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Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The Code4Lib Journal - Geocoding LCSH in the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Reusing metadata generated through years of cataloging practice is a natural and pragmatic way of leveraging an institution’s investment in describing its resources. Using Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), the Biodiversity Heritage Library generates new interfaces for browsing and navigating books in a digital library. LCSH are grouped into tag clouds and plotted on interactive maps using methods available within the Google Maps Application Programming Interface (API). Code examples are included, and issues related to these interfaces and the underlying LCSH data are examined.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)¹ is a consortium of ten international natural history museum libraries, botanical garden libraries, and associated technology partners, formed with a mission to digitize the corpus of historic biodiversity literature. The partner libraries include American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY); The Field Museum (Chicago, IL); Harvard University Botany Libraries (Cambridge, MA); Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, MA); Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, MA); Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, MO); Natural History Museum (London, UK); The New York Botanical Garden (New York, NY); Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Richmond, UK); and the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington, DC). The University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL), a lead member of the Open Content Alliance, is also supporting the work of BHL as a Contributing member.
The collections held by BHL partners total upwards of two million volumes and contain core scientific literature dating from the 15th century. These collections have been curated for more than 200 years to support the research activities of scientists and students describing the living world. Because of shared interest with smaller scientific societies, BHL collections offer many unique titles unavailable even in larger university collections. From a scholarly perspective, these collections are of exceptional value because the domain of systematic biology depends upon references to original publication of species descriptions contained in historic literature.²
In 2005, concurrent with early BHL planning sessions, the Missouri Botanical Garden (MOBOT) received funding from the W.M. Keck Foundation to model a robust software platform to connect biodiversity databases with digital library content, including interfaces, both user-centered and programmatic, that addressed the specific needs of the taxonomic research community.³ The platform, named Botanicus, was demonstrated using materials scanned in-house at the Missouri Botanical Garden and is online at www.botanicus.org.