from a list-------------------Your feedback is needed to help determine Georgia public libraries’ GALIEO resources for Fiscal Year 2013. Please fill out the survey (link below) to identify the resources your public library purchases locally, as well as the resources or topic areas your library would find most useful. Once top resources are identified, database trials will be set up and open for feedback and discussion.

The massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake on March 11, 2011 triggered a tsunami that struck the east coast, devastating much of the Tohoku area in Japan. Fifteen thousand people are confirmed dead with more than nine thousand still missing.Libraries in the region were also devastated in the region. The Minami-Sanriku Town Library disappeared without a trace. The chief librarian was killed. Rikuzen-Takata City suffered catastrophic damage from the tsunami. Most of the city area is covered with piles of rubble. All library staff members were killed or are still missing.

Valdosta State University is surveying to find out what the core competencies of Library & Information Science. Here's your chance to provide your thoughts and who knows, you might even help impact the curriculum, too.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VSUcorecomp

If you are aware of damage to libraries or other cultural institutions in the storm affected counties, please send a message to the HERA (Heritage Emergency Response Alliance) list: HERA@LISTSERV.CC.EMORY.EDU or Marlee Givens if you're not able to get through there.If you have access to Facebook, you can also contact HERA via their page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/ATLHERAOr on Twitter: @ATLHERAThe Heritage Emergency Response Alliance (HERA

GeorgiaInfo, available in GALILEO and Digital Library of Georgia database menus, is a portal to historical, cultural, statistical, governmental, and geographical information on Georgia. The GeorgiaInfo team would like our feedback to help inform the redesign of this robust resource. Please see their message below.“We’re redesigning GeorgiaInfo!

 As many of you in the library community know,  RDA is the new cataloging rules, which replace AACR2. RDA works within the FRBR and FRAD framework (for those who don't know what those terms mean, they are essentially semantic web and linked data friendly schemas for library metadata for library materials, like books.)One of the key parts of the semantic web is to be able to support multiple schemas, as long as the schema is referenced (linked to), the schema is available on the web to search engines, bots, spiders, etc. and the data can be parsed and crosswalked into multiple platforms.

Apparently only 1 Georgia Librarian has been nominated.

I need some feedback. I have multiple blogs out there. Some are more up to date than others; but none are particularly scandalous.From 2000-2006, I art blogged. I blogged my art process. I blogged new art works. I blogged my heath problems. I blogged a photo friday EVERY friday. I photoblogged from my camera. It was much more personal than what I post here. (there are about 1000 posts in an expression engine website, just sitting...)I occasionally crossposted here, but not so much. It was back in my "I need to keep my identities separate" days.

Andy Woodworth is doing a MARC Madness of library terms. It's all in silly good fun and I encourage you to stop by his blog and participate. Who says librarians don't have a sense of humor?