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I bought a CueCat from LibraryThing when they first got them. It was so useful to me when cataloging my book and graphic novels library.

Their holiday store has them on sale for $5 for the holidays.

Now you can use a mobile phone, but back then it wasn't an option.

But you get a neat little plastic cat sculpture with a USB tail and flashing red mouth with a CueCat.

Useful for Bookwyrm.

https://www.librarything.com/more/store

#CueCat #LibraryThing #catalog #cataloging #Library #Libraries #z_lib #Bookwyrm

New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring news about critical #cataloging. cataloginglab.org/2025/11/30/c... #critcat Metadata & cataloging librarians, please consider taking the surveys shared to help your colleagues! 📚

Critcatenate: #critcat in Nove...

Backlogs and Beyond: #AI in Primary #Cataloging Workflows (via #OCLC / Research Library Partnership) https://hangingtogether.org/backlogs-and-beyond-ai-in-primary-cataloging-workflows/ #libraries #librarians

The Archaeology Catalogs Part II: A Great Deal of Careful Work - Sara Polk

'Enhancing Inclusive Bibliographic Data: A Study of Disability Terminology in the Subject Headings of the National Library of Indonesia' 🔽 repository.ifla.org/items/3cba20... #Library #Disability #Cataloging #Cataloguing #CripLib

Enhancing Inclusive Bibliograp...

As my Intro Cataloguing class draws to a close, I'm excited to start using the knowledge I've gained to make anything I publish a special MARC/RDA challenge

Come check out my autobiography, titled "James 'My life: a memoir' Truitt"

#Cataloging #MARC #RDA

I left some rambling comments on the Draft PCC Guiding Principles for Use of AI and Machine Learning Technologies in Cataloging and Metadata Work. (Find the link in the "what's new" section wiki.lyrasis.org/display/PFCC...) Encourage other #cataloging folks to give feedback; deadline: August 8th.

Four paragraphs of text (part 1 of 2).

This document is much better than other documents relating to the adoption of AI that I've read. I appreciate that ethical aspects are included, but most are relegated to the end, and not incorporated within the other principles. What I see lacking is consideration about when AI should be used, and when librarians should NOT use it. Ok, so AI should "improve access and discovery," yes, but how do we weigh that against pollution necessitated by AI-processing data centers? That's happening RIGHT NOW, in communities around the U.S. & the world, not in some theoretical place/time.

Why make a list of what catalogers are useful for, when you could instead focus on the limited aspects that AI is useful for?

What about labor concerns? Where is the principle that says that increased efficiency is not an excuse for laying off workers?

It is absolutely impossible to ensure that "a record labelled as PCC does not vary in quality depending on whether AI was used." There will ALWAYS be a tradeoff in quality. We may judge that that tradeoff is worthwhile, based on limited resources and the capacity for machine learning to do more work in a shorter amount of time, but you CAN NOT ensure the same quality from AI that you can from an experienced cataloger. It's irresponsible to say that within these principles.

Another four paragraphs of text (2 of 2).

As a PCC member, I absolutely DO NOT believe that catalogers have a role in "testing, training, and providing feedback for AI features and tools." Vendors should be paying their employees to do that!! How is that our job to do that work for free?? Why have we accepted that our students and faculty are the guinea pigs to role out inferior products??

I take issue with the idea that AI "may be incorrect, biased, or incomplete." It, by design, is always limited! This stuff was trained on Reddit, folks. It WILL be incomplete, and it WILL have errors, and it WILL be biased.

I understand that this short document can't list all the harms, and that your deliverables are limited in scope to result in this rather anodyne document. But we have to take these harms seriously, and incorporate them into all parts of the document, not shunt them into an "oh, yeah, by the way, this stuff's 100% toxic for all living things, too bad!" end section.

I appreciate your efforts and look forward to a future draft. Thanks for your consideration.

"#Mozilla can press on with independent subprojects such as #Thunderbird owners #MZLA #Technologies #Corporation. The popular #Electron #framework is based on #Chromium. It's too late to change that, even if maybe #Servo may one day offer an #alternative. But if #Thunderbird sucked in #Libpurple, it wouldn't matter if #Slack and #Teams and so on used #Electron, as Thunderbird could talk to the servers directly."
"But pointing at what we'd like to see is attempting to #treat the #symptoms and not the #disease. Is there a way to #encourage Mozilla to be an #organized, #focused, #professional #business, with #eyes keenly set on a clearly defined #goal? Perhaps that's the wrong #question. Perhaps that shouldn't be the goal at all. For all that the #Linux business is #huge, no #company #develops the #kernel. They all #cooperate on it. The #Linux #Foundation #funds it, but doesn't really #guide it."
"One #observer has been #spectating and #commentating on Mozilla since before it was a foundation – one of its original co-#developers, #JamieZawinksi. He has been accurately #cataloging Mozilla's #failings for #years."

#browser

so **each** key/value-pair of #metadata can be about 64kB.

This is sufficient to hold most annotations stored as #EmbeddedMetadata currently present in most file formats.
(eg #mp3, #mp4, #iptc, #tiff, #jpg, etc)

But from then on, the file-format becomes irrelevant for this task!

#ahalodeck #digipres #audiovisual #cataloging

The June issue of Catalogue & Index focuses on the theme of using generative AI in #metadata and #cataloging work.

https://journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-and-index

#cataloguing #genAI #generativeAI #Libraries #GLAM

My article on leveraging short term project funds to catalyze reparative cataloging work/mindsets is now free and available with RBM:

https://rbm.acrl.org/index.php/rbm/article/view/26822

#critcat #cataloging #blackbibliographyproject

One of the many things I miss from Borders is that they had public catalog search stations in the store. So when you were looking for something sort of interdisciplinary, you could find out which idiosyncratic sub-category they used to shelve it. #cataloging in the wild

CRL (Center For Research #Libraries) Launches Initiative to Create a New Model for Cooperative #Cataloging https://www.crl.edu/crl-launches-initiative-create-new-model-cooperative-cataloging

#BIBFRAME without BIBFRAME: The infrastructure of next-generation #cataloging workflows

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07317131.2025.2512281#d1e172

#libraries #catalogs #LOD #linkeddata #Marc21 #MARC #metadata #RDF #standards

Artificial intelligence to support metadata workflows: an OCLC RLP working group - Hanging Together https://hangingtogether.org/artificial-intelligence-to-support-metadata-workflows-an-oclc-rlp-working-group/ #AI #metadata #cataloging #libraries

Text Shot: During our first meeting, we took time to learn how our contributors are currently looking at AI opportunities in their workflows, including:

How can AI make workflows more efficient and effective?
How can AI services help reduce backlogs of materials by creating brief records?
What are the best practices for AI to help libraries with non-Latin script materials?
How can AI be used to augment metadata workflows for institutional repositories, research data/information management ecosystems, and cultural heritage digital asset management platforms?

Artificial intelligence to support metadata workflows: an OCLC RLP working group - Hanging Together https://hangingtogether.org/artificial-intelligence-to-support-metadata-workflows-an-oclc-rlp-working-group/ #AI #metadata #cataloging #libraries

Halp. I'm trying to find all instances of 710 [field content here] and delete said 710. It was REALLY EASY in Sierra. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do it in Alma. Do I really have to write a normalization rule for this? I have no idea how to do that. #metadata #cataloging #alma