Catalogers Desktop 3.0

Cataloger’s Desktop has migrated to a new platform. Now the first screen you will see asks for a password. We still have IP access so don't be confused. What they are asking for is a personal account login. CD would like you to establish a personal login so you can set up your preferences. If you previously set up an account in the old system, your password should still work.

Our account is still for a limited number of users, so when a whole class is trying to use it you may get a message that the number of users has been reached.

Here's some information from CD about setting up an account:


When you go to use Cataloger’s Desktop the first time after the transition to the new Cataloger’s Desktop service (“CD3") you will have to log in a new way. You should download an “At-a-Glance” instruction sheet from the LC website at:
http://www.loc.gov/cds/desktop/training/2-Login.pdf
A Powerpoint presentation on this subject is also available at:
http://www.loc.gov/cds/desktop/training/2-Login.ppt
In order to provide several key functions and features with the new service, you must establish a personal login. For this login you will use:
Your email address: users@place.edu
Temporary password: catalog (for the first time only)
You will be asked to create a new password, and will then be taken to the General Preference setup.
If you experience any difficulties with this procedure, please email us at: desktop-info@loc.gov

Thank you for your continued support.

The Cataloger’s Desktop Team

Smithsonian Collections Search Center

The Smithsonian cam out with the following information about its Collections Search Center:

Smithsonian Libraries, Archives and Museums have worked together and created the Collections Search Center (http://collections.si.edu), a one-stop-searching center for the public for SI collections. This fast growing Collections Search Center contains 2.3 million records with 280,000 online media such as images, sound files, videos, and online collections.

Reviving the Academic Library

From Inside Higher Ed
November 19, 2009
Instead of trying to turn themselves into something they're not -- a center of fundamental learning -- campus libraries should focus on their traditional core mission of supporting education and research, writes Johann Neem. www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/11/19/neem

LIS Online Career Fair

Are you a new library school graduate - or mid-career and looking for a change? Are you wondering how to improve your career skills or ready to try a certificate program? Looking to refresh your resume? You are invited to the first annual LIS Online Career Fair. On Tuesday January 12, 2010 this online conference will be a day of learning how to start or to rejuvenate your library career in tough times! The day will kick off at 10 am central time/11 am Eastern/8 am Pacific and run through 4:30 pm central/5:30 pm Eastern. You will have your choice of a variety of informational and interactive programs which will assist you with your career no matter where you are.

The conference keynote speaker is Rachel Singer Gordon, webmaster of LISjobs.com, the largest library career site and job database, and consulting editor at Information Today Inc., Books Division. Rachel's talk, "Career Building in a Down Economy," will help librarians focus on what they can do to keep themselves moving forward professionally in a down economy.
While professional literature discusses what librarians can do to help their communities and patrons, it does not give much information as to what librarians can do to help themselves. Rachel will address the ways in which the economy affects librarians professionally, how to control reactions and frustration, how to deal proactively with current events, and how to move forward effectively in tough economic times.

Other speakers include: Tom Peters, TAP Information Services; Christi Confetti Higgins, Sun Microsystems; Cindy Hill, Hill Information Consulting; Morgan Cadwalader, Alliance Library System; Kitty Pope. Alliance Library System; Marianne Steadley, University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science and more!

For more information on this conference, check out liscareerfair.org . The
cost of the one day online event is $29 for graduate library students; $39 for librarians, and for a group, the price is $79

The workshop is consponsored by Alliance Library System and TAP Information Services.

New in WorldCat.org

OAIster records are now accessible through WorldCat.org, and are included in standard WorldCat.org search results. OAIster is a union catalog of more than 23 million records that represent the open archives resources built by harvesting open archives digital collections worldwide.

The database includes materials such as digitized books and articles, audio and video files, photos, data sets, theses and research papers.

PapersFirst and ProceedingsFirst have now also been added to WorldCat.org results. These two indexes contain papers from conferences, symposiums and expositions worldwide. Created from items received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

New AASL Toolkits

The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has three new resources on its website: the Parent Outreach Toolkit, the Crisis Toolkit, and the School Library Media Program Health and Wellness Toolkit. These sites were created to help school library media specialists. They are available at www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslissues/toolkits/toolkits.cfm.

Book Links

Book Links, the book review magazine of ALA, will no longer be published as a journal. As of October 2009 it will become a quarterly supplement to the journal Booklist.