Today’s stories include: taxonomy, RDA, Overdrive, British Library and Google, digital Europe, Endnote X5, and more.

New Zealand

• Chooks or Poultry – What’s in a Name – Taxonomy in our latest L2 Blog post from @L2_S2S. (BoK5)
• “The Spiral Tattoo” by librarian @Michael_J_Parry is now available for pre-order. Just $0.99 for your ecopy! via @sallyheroes. (BoK2)
• Latest APNK blog post ‘Twitter and natural disasters‘ from @PeepsNetwork. (BoK2)

Worldwide

• Re: What the RDA announcement means via @ALA_TechSource. (BoK5)
• Kansas State Librarian Argues Consortium Owns, Not Licenses, Content from OverDrive via @LibraryRenewal. (BoK8)
• BritishLibrary/Google deal-readers able to view, search and copy out-of-copyright works > 250,000 texts via @leaghaire. (BoK2)
• European digitisation activity: Issues for the creation of a digital Europe (slideshare) via @myleejoseph. (BoK1)
• Karen Coyle on draft report by W3C Incubator Group on Library Linked Data via @ALA_TechSource. (BoK5)
• From ALA – Confronting the Future: Strategic Visions for the 21st Century Public Library (pdf) via @sallyheroes. (BoK9)
• EndNote X5 releases today – Add file attachments to your Web records, view and annotate PDFs, update records via @aarontay. (BoK7)

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