LITA BlogThis is the third in a series of messages regarding voting pools for NISO standards reviews, transmitted from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting representative to NISO.
The text of this new ballot sent to NISO voting members is as follows:
“This is the third group of standards due for five-year reviews for which NISO will be issuing ballots. [...]
Ha, I knew that headline would get your attention! But before you panic, let me reassure you, DC is not going away, or anything of the sort. This latest of notifications from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting representative to NISO, has to do with ISO/FDIS 15836, The Dublin Core metadata element set. To [...]
Our busy ALA Voting representative to NISO, Cindy Hepfer, has notified us of a systematic review ballot of the published standard, ISO 6630:1986, Bibliographic control characters.
According to the scope note in the standard:
“This International Standard contains a set of 15 bibliographic control characters for use in cataloguing rules, filing rules and indexing rules of [...]
Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting representative to NISO has forwarded us information on ISO/CD 27730, International Standard Collection Identifier (ISCI), now up for vote by ISO.
The scope note in the new standard reads as follows:
“The purpose of this International Standard is to establish the specifications for the International Standard Collection Identifier (ISCI) as a unique [...]
The final keynote of the LITA National Forum 2008 “The Obligation of Leadership” can be found at Virutal Dave … Real Blog. If you missed it do check it out. You can choose how you want to experience it. David posted his slides, audio and video versions of the keynote on his website. If you [...]
Check out this video review of the LITA 2008 National Forum, “Technology and Community: Building the Techno Community Library”, held October 17-19 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Included are general session speakers Michael Porter and Tim Spalding, session presenters Dinah Sanders and Nicholas Schiller, Conference Chair Dale Poulter, and LITA President Andrew Pace.