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Moving Services Out Of The Library And Into The Classroom, Eeva Munoz, David Fiander, Ian Whyte
Moving Services Out Of The Library And Into The Classroom, Eeva Munoz, David Fiander, Ian Whyte
David J Fiander
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Social Media For Academic Libraries, David J. Fiander
Social Media For Academic Libraries, David J. Fiander
David J Fiander
This chapter discusses the value of the academic library engaging with its users via social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. The chapter provides some background on research into how libraries have experimented with using Facebook for outreach and how the user community has responded. It gives a brief outline of the process for creating a rich Facebook page for an academic library system and tips for how to market a Facebook page or Twitter account, and how to use social media accounts to promote the library’s services. Finally, it provides some guidance for how an academic library should think …
Applying Xml To The Bibliographic Description, David Fiander
Applying Xml To The Bibliographic Description, David Fiander
David J Fiander
Over the past few years there has been a significant amount of work in the area of cataloging internet resources, primarily us- ing new metadata standards like the Dublin Core, but there has been little work on applying new data description formats like SGML and XML to traditional cataloging practices. What little work has been done in the area of using SGML and XML for traditional bibliographic description has primarily been based on the concept of converting MARC tagging into XML tagging. I suggest that, rather than attempting to convert exist- ing MARC tagging into a new syntax based on …