by Alissa McCulloch | Jul 23, 2026 | News Digests
In the news David Walsh’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart has opened its new library, Phrontisterion. As reported by ABC News, the library has foresworn Dewey and other traditional classification systems in favour of… well, nothing. Books are...
by Sara Davidsson | Jun 30, 2026 | News Digests
ALIA ACORD Cataloguers’ Catch-Up! Do you have a curly resource description question? Need a safe space to share your description woes? Or just want to hang out with cataloguers? Join ACORD members and your peers in a no-agenda Cataloguers’ Catch-up. Any...
by Sara Davidsson | May 29, 2026 | News Digests
ALIA ACORD Cataloguers’ Catch-Up! Do you have a curly resource description question? Need a safe space to share your description woes? Or just want to hang out with cataloguers? Join ACORD members and your peers in a no-agenda Cataloguers’ Catch-up. Any...
by Sara Davidsson | May 5, 2026 | News Digests
Trove The Trove Metadata Manager: If you find any data issues or something in the system that is not quite working as you would expect, Trove recommends checking the Trove Partners Cataloguing known issues register to see if the Trove team is already working on it....
by Alissa McCulloch | Apr 2, 2026 | News Digests
Australian Subject Analysis Project The Australian Subject Analysis Project (ASAP) are hosting a survey on the use of subject headings and controlled vocabularies in Australian library catalogues, to inform the future direction of the project. All librarians are...
by Alissa McCulloch | Mar 6, 2026 | News Digests
Rare Books Cataloguing The Bibliographic Standards Committee of RBMS has recently published a new document, “Recommendations for the Creation of Harmful Metadata and/or Harmful Language Statements.” It is publicly available within the ALA Institutional Repository...
