A day in the life of a Cataloger

WordPress.com Development

Arnold — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:15:04 +0000

Whoa! Pretty neat development here at wordpress.com. The blog stat in the dashboard is very useful. And the graphical representation is pretty cool. Its been quite awhile since I visited my dashboard here. The wordpress.com blog navigation at the top right corner of the screen is very very useful too. Makes WordPress.com really a blog network of some sort.

I’m still hoping to have the ability to fully customize my template. I hope the WP guys enable it sometime in the future.

Reading Wish List

Arnold — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:45:26 +0000

Librarians are supposed to be avid readers. Being the knowledge master that they are, where else can librarians find the knowledge but in books and other reading materials, be it printed or non-printed. As the old library adage says, “so many books, so little time”.

Indeed there are a vast of information wealth one can find almost anywhere. And money to purchase most of those is no longer an issue. This wealth has enabled continuing learning an ease to anyone seeking knowledge and professional advancement. Unfortunately, not everyone has the luxury of time or the discipline to allot time for reading, be it for professional or leisure purpose. But in my case, the lack of time and discipline for both reading purposes applies. And I could only wish for time and discipline to finish reading and learning about the following stuff relating to the field of library and information science:

Library 2.0 ( re: wikis, blogs, rss aggregators, social bookmarking)
Open Source Applications (as it applies to libraries)
Metadata (applications in libraries)
Digital issues in libraries

Now, If only a genie could grant my wish?

Microsoft to Digitize British Library Books

Arnold — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:59:37 +0000

In Library parlance, there are two primary sources of bibliographic information of published materials. If you can’t find the CIP (cataloging-in-publication) data of a published book from the Library of Congress Union Catalog, chances are you’d find it at the British Library.

Fast forward to 2005, Google despite receiving several flaks from American Association of Publishers and Author’s Guild continues with its Google Print project and posted the first part of its digitization project covering books which are already included in the public domain or in simple terms, books which are no longer covered by copyright laws.

Recently, in a BBC article, Microsoft announces its plan of digitizing 100,00 books in the British Library collection and will make them available to public.

Will these two corporate giants able to do what the field of librarianship failed to do? That is make information available to user at the right place and at the right time? That remains to be seen in the coming days.

Part 1 of Google Print

Arnold — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:06:24 +0000

Despite the opposition against its implementation, Google Print posted its “small taste” of what the internet community is about to find tomorrow as Google Print continues to embark on one of its biggest project to date.

For part one of this project, most of the books that were included have expired copyright date and are already in the international public domain. Most of these are 19th century American literature and history works.

Google Defends Its Google Print Project

Arnold — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:14:19 +0000

Facing two lawsuits, the most recent of which against the American Association of Publishers, Google defends its milestone project at Google Blog by posting the reasons why they believe in the said project.

In an article at the Wall Street Journal (Oct. 18, 2005) , Google CEO Eric Schmidt, wrote about the Point of Google Print.

Google Librarian Center

Arnold — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:02:41 +0000

Google is coming out with a quarterly newsletter specially for librarians. Actually it’s a Google group which aims to help librarians (like me) know anything they want to know about Google.

Invites galore

Arnold — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 03:51:52 +0000

I’ve got a couple of WordPress.com invite up for grabs. Just leave a comment and tell me what do you need it for. Sorry, that’s the way it goes based on what others have done.

5 Days Training on OHSAS 18001

Arnold — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:26:24 +0000

It seems like I won’t be updating this blog for this week. I am currently attending a training on OHSAS 18001 for being one of our company’s internal auditors. OHSAS (Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series) 18001 is part of our company’s contribution to making our organization socially responsible. It has been quite awhile since I attended a training this long. Today is our first day and I can’t believe I managed to survive the exercises, the discussions and the lectures during the training. I hope I can make it until Friday, when we will have an examination in order to be certified as Lead Auditor for OHSAS 18001.

I’m Honored!

Arnold — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:14:50 +0000

Ok. I finally got my golden WordPress ticket. What now? Having used two WordPress MU enabled free site, Blogsome and Edublogs, I guess I could say the features are pretty much the same. But then, this is WordPress.com man, so it pretty adds a little esteem to a blog.

Lohrelle sums up what every privilege blogger can do with this “god-given” account here in WordPress.com and I couldn’t agree more. While for Blogger users, this is an interesting comparison between WordPress.com and Blogger.

Now, since I have been using blogsome for quiet some time now I could say that feature wise, WordPress.com is pretty much the same as that of blogsome’s WPMU. Except for one difference which I hope will be addressed soon, and that is the ability to tweak or customize one’s template. If this issue is answered, I bet in due time, WordPress.com would be on its way to becoming the leading WordPress blog host.