During my library’s ILS (library catalog) migration project, we wanted to make sure our customers knew about it. It’s not usually a good thing to have your customers show up the day after we go live, thinking “what in the world happened here?” Communicating with 170,000 people is no easy task! Here’s what we did: Signs in [...] […]
Software developer from Harvard's Library Innovation Laboratory, Paul Deschner, writes about the importance of quality cataloging for the development of new library applications. One of the primary challenges in this work is getting data describing books and periodicals (catalog records) to relate to data from non-library sources, such as data about boo […]
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free "Batteries included" is one of those catchphrases that has long left the humble origins and is now applied to almost every new development in IT. The questions one often forgets to ask are: Do they fit? Are there enough of them? How long do they last and are they rechargeable? In this webcast presentat […]
Bibliotecarul a rămas în continuare un personaj de legendă. Doar mitul nu mai e acelaşi (modelul suprem ai cărui descendenţi se zicea că suntem – bibliotecarul medieval erudit, care cunoştea toate cărţile – mitul bibliotecii, echivalentul Universului, puţin Borges, se înţelege ce vreau să spun). Şi când cârcotaşii au început să vorbească de o degenerar […]
As I work on my very first course syllabus for the Fall term at Dalhousie, I find myself reminiscing about my own time in library school and how I felt about the courses I took. Were they useful? Practical? Was … Continue reading →