Library Gazette

With plenty of prodding from Patrick, I am slowly resolving cases where loose journal issues are either tied up in string or are falling over in a cardboard box. One such box contained most of the 1966 issues of Carolina Farmer. When I looked inside, I was surprised to discover four issues of Southern Agriculturist from 1841 (also known as The Southern Agriculturist, Horticulturist, and Register of Rural Affairs, Adapted to the Southern Section of the United States). Further investigation with Craig, Megan, and Beth revealed that additional issues are housed in Rare waiting to be cataloged. All the extant issues are now receiving Craig’s tender ministrations before we place them in the secure climate-controlled confines of our soon-to-come storage building. If you can’t wait to read the contents of these tomes, you can peruse the digitized versions through our American Periodicals Series database. (If you’re more interested in Carolina Farmer, you’ll need to wait until it gets back from the bindery.)

With the approval of Admin Council, I have added a Creative Commons license to most of our Flickr pictures. What’s does that mean? Well, if you’ve ever noticed the awesome photography in any of Lauren P.’s presentations recently, then you’ve already seen one of the benefits. Creative Commons allows us to tell potential users in advance that it’s OK to use one of our pictures, e.g. in a PowerPoint, provided that

• it’s not for commercial purposes
• they attribute the photo to ZSR
• the work they create (the PowerPoint show) is also distributed under the same terms, aka “share-alike.”

The exception is our READ posters. We have contractual restrictions that prohibit us from sharing these photos with a Creative Commons license. Therefore, those 5 images still say “all rights reserved.”

Hopefully this move will provide more exposure for ZSR as well as help to advance the conversation about copyright and open access in today’s information universe.

A BibID is a unique identifier for each bibliographic record in the catalog. BibIDs have several nifty uses even for people who never use the back end of Voyager.

Links to catalog records
You can make a short and persistent link to a specific record in the OPAC by using this syntax:
http://catalog.zsr.wfu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=123456

In this case 123456 is the BibID. BibID links are how we connect to ZSR Print Holdings on the Journals page.

Reporting errors
When submitting a FixZak report, you can include the BibID number to ensure that we’ll quickly get to the right record. You may find typing in a BibID faster than typing in a title or otherwise describing where you were in the catalog.

Great! So how do I find a BibID?
Click on Staff View in any record. Copy the number in the 001 field, which is always the second row in the record.