Global Libraries Standards: Biblio Commons

Global Libraries Standards: Biblio Commons

Standards … You may have heard this term one day
But what are the standards and who defines them and who is
based on documenting them ?
Unified standards in the field of libraries, documentation and
information are an indispensable tool for both library management and
librarians. Without them, libraries become mere stores of information
vessels only. We can imagine libraries and their bleak picture if
each of them had its own classification, and its separate indexing
rules.
Standards are a necessary tool in the technical processes,
evaluation in library services, and planning for the creation of new
libraries and the improvement of existing one.
The reasons that led to the use of unified standards in the
field of libraries and information in essence are the same reasons
that led to their entry into other fields and sectors.
Library Standards in the World is your window to keep abreast
of what is new in the field of libraries and information regionally
and internationally.
We are seeking to find an audience that is aware of all
developments regarding the new standards for libraries, projects,
various agreements, modern technologies, and others.
We will discuss three important and comprehensive points about
Unified standards in Libraries, as follows:
Biblio Commons
Cooperation Agreements
Library Resource
Management
The beginning will be with “Biblio Commons”
Biblio Commons
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The IFLA Metadata Newsletter June 2020 issue is published
IFLA
… 24/06/2020
After Covid-19 pandemic …
The
IFLA Metadata Newsletter is a good way of keeping update with news
from a safe distance.
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MARC 21 Update No. 30: Full and Concise Available Online
Library of Congress
… 27/05/2020
Update No. 30 (May 2020) is now available on the MARC website
(
http://www.loc.gov/marc/
). It is integrated into the documentation for each
of the Online Full and Concise formats that are maintained on that
site — the Bibliographic format, Authority format, Holdings format,
Classification format, and Community Information format. The
documentation includes changes made to the MARC 21 formats resulting
from proposals which were considered by the MARC 21 community since
the publication of Update No. 29 (November 2019).
The changes are indicated in red. Each format also has an
appendix, «Format Changes for Update No. 30 (May 2020)»
that lists the changes that comprise the update. The Web version of
the formats is the official version and its release is considered the
start date for implementation planning for Update 30. Users are not
expected to begin using the new features in the format until 60 days
from the date of this announcement: May 27, 2020. For more
information about format documentation
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FOLIO Launches Fameflower Release
FOLIO
… 19/05/2020
FOLIO, a community collaboration to develop an open source Library
Services Platform (LSP), has launched the Fameflower Release. The
FOLIO Fameflower Release is the…