PAST: Generations of catalogers were instructed to follow the “rule of three”. Born from the catalog card’s limited real estate this rule applied to resources with more than three authors (or artists) resulting in only the first named individual appearing in the bibliographic record followed by “… [et al.]”. The adoption of RDA reversed th…[Read more]

Heat waves and wildfires, global pandemics, floods and droughts. We are already experiencing the damaging impact of climate change. Natural disasters put library facilities and collections at risk, while mass migration alters who uses libraries and why. Can we envision library futures that respond to the hopes, fears, and needs of our…[Read more]

The Art Institute of Chicago online collection is a freely accessible web-based platform that provides access to the most complete virtual version of the resources and collections of the museum. The site is full of detailed visual, textual, and multimedia material for more than one-hundred and sixteen thousand objects, showcasing the best possible…[Read more]