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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