Professional Reading Shelf
National Libraries–New Zealand
Source: National Library of New Zealand
Funds for Major Expansion of National Library of New Zealand Approved
“The National Library has been allocated funding in the 2006 budget to evaluate options for a major expansion of their building, the National Library Minister Judith Tizard has announced.”
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Classification Schemes
Source: GPO
A Practical Guide to the Superintendent of Documents Classification System
Also available in HTML by chapter. “The Superintendent of Documents classification system was developed in the library of the Government Printing Office between 1895 and 1903. It was first described in October 1903 by William Leander Post, then in charge of the library, in the preface to List of Publications of the Agriculture Department 1862-1902, Department List No.1, issued by the Superintendent of Documents in 1904.”
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Subject Gateways
Source: Information Research 11(2) (via E-LIS)
Constructing Web subject gateways using Dublin Core, RDF, and Topic Maps
by Jesus Tramullas and Piedad Garrido (2006). Abstract: “Specialised subject gateways have become an essential tool for locating and accessing digital information resources, with the added value of organisation and previous evaluation catering for the needs of the varying communities using these. Within the framework of a research project on the subject, a software tool has been developed that enables subject gateways to be developed and managed. General guidelines for the work were established which set out the main principles for the technical aspects of the application, on one hand, and on aspects of the treatment and management of information, on the other. All this has been integrated into a prototype model for developing software tools. The needs analysis established the conditions to be fulfilled by the application. A detailed study of the available options for the treatment of information on metadata proved that the best option was to use the Dublin Core, and that the metadata set should be included, in turn, in RDF tags, or in tags based on XML.”

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