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Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture
No full textAs someone who has been a lawyer for two decades and a school librarian for less than five years, I am always interested in books that bridge the fields of law and librarianship without necessarily being about legal librarianship. With its focus on legal decisions, theories, and personalities and emphasis on the critical value of intellectual freedom, Randall Kennedy’s new essay collection Say it Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture sits firmly on that bridge between professions
Contributing to HathiTrust on a Smaller Scale
No full textIn 2021, the Oklahoma State University Library contributed titles from the Bureau of Indian Affairs in their regional depository library collection to the HathiTrust Digital Library. A coordinated effort, this allowed the university library to expand the mission and outreach of the Federal Depository Library Program and also disseminate information and further education as part of the responsibility of a land-grant institution. Contributing Bureau of Indian Affairs materials enhanced the OSU Library’s role as a preservation partner with the Federal Depository Library Program, supported the state with the importance of Native American tribes in Oklahoma, and complemented the goals of the HathiTrust Federal Documents Collection Framework as a key agency to complete as to a comprehensive collection
From the Chair: The Next 50: A GODORT for All
No full textI am writing this column, my first as GODORT chair, only a few weeks removed from attending the 2022 ALA Annual Conference in Washington DC, the first in-person ALA conference in over two years. As I reflect on my experience at the conference, I feel incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to attend informative and timely GODORT programs and reconnect with so many wonderful colleagues at our in-person social events, especially after years of virtual meetings
Not Just in English Anymore: COVID-19 Speaks Multiple Languages
No full textThe past two years have been frustrating and difficult in the presence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sources of misinformation have been rampant. For those of us who are native speakers of English, accurate and reliable COVID-19 information is abundant and easily accessible. Now, imagine you speak another language and only know some basic English. Your need for information is important for your ability to work, to keep your children safe, and to understand what is happening with COVID-19. Those of us who work in the information world can help our patrons by providing access to current and reliable COVID-19 facts in other languages
No Finish Line: Creating Inclusiveness in Children’s Programs
No full textAs a professional group, public library staff working in children’s services strive to provide high quality services and programming for all children and their caregivers; they are committed to respecting the diverse backgrounds and experiences of the people in their community, creating inclusive spaces, and continuously working to develop cultural competency
Book Review: Managing Grey Literature: Technical Services Perspectives
No full textGrey literature contains valuable resources often overlooked by libraries because of the ambiguity surrounding the management and cataloging of these document types. This book examines the topic of grey literature to highlight its importance and to provide a holistic approach to integrating these materials into a collection. Throughout the six chapters, experts demystify grey literature, both showing a need to incorporate and how to successfully manage it, as well as addressing issues related to selecting, cataloging, marketing, and sustaining these materials
Evolution of a Subject Heading: The Story Continues
No full textIn 2018, the author published a paper that describes the process by which catalogers at Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) institutions create and propose new subject headings for inclusion in the Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) controlled vocabulary. In a related vein, this paper describes the process of proposing a revision to an established subject heading via the Subject Authority Cooperative (SACO) Program’s Subject Heading Proposal System. Two separate proposals are presented: one to revise the authority record for the subject heading, Concentration camps [150] by removing the cross reference, Internment camps [450], from that authority record; the other proposal is to establish the cross reference as an authorized subject heading. The reasons for revising subject headings are explored, and a detailed review of the revision process using the SACO Proposal System is presented for the benefit of other catalogers seeking to make changes to subject headings they encounter in their own collections
Chapter 3. Making Access More Seamless with Access Broker Browser Extensions
No full textEndNote Click, Lean Library, LibKey Nomad, Google Scholar Button—these are some access broker browser extensions, which are widely used by academic libraries to help users easily gain access to library resources more seamlessly, particularly if they do not start from a library page. Chapter 3 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 58, no. 6), “Making Access More Seamless with Access Broker Browser Extensions,” will discuss how they compare with each other and the general pros and cons of these tools
Stand Still in the Moment: A Chat with Author Paul Acampora
No full text“A lot of it was informed by being locked in the house for a year and watching the world suffer and watching young people look around going, this isn’t fair,” author Paul Acampora tells me when we pick up the phone to chat about his newest book, In Honor of Broken Things (Penguin 2022)