Tag Archives: Karen Schneider

OCLC: A Review (a review)

OCLC: A Review (PDF here) is the title of an essay by Jeffrey Beall that is included in a book titled Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front. First, let me reiterate my own attitude about OCLC: They are, for good … Continue reading

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Indiana Open Source ILS Initiative

This announcement by the Indiana State Library and the Hussey Mayfield Memorial Public Library in Zionsville is significant : they aim to make Indiana the third statewide implementation of the Evergreen ILS, assuming that it meets their needs. Third??? Well, … Continue reading

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How to be “famous”

I occasionally point out something that Karen Schneider writes, and this post will link to another example of her writing. One of the things I really enjoy about her blog is that she, like Jessamyn (part of my inspiration for … Continue reading

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Projects and Time Management

No brand new flashy sites in this post; just a small collection of links on how one deals with the demands of time, projects and learning: Big or Small? — Jen Riley at the Indiana University Digital Library Program has … Continue reading

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My non-library blog reads

Through Karen Schneider’s blog, I have been pseudo-assigned to post 5 non-library blogs that I read. Here they are, in alphabetical order (hey, I work in a library… feel lucky I didn’t classify them via LC or Dewey): A List … Continue reading

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Library of Congress Meetings

The Library of Congress has formed the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, and will be having their first public meeting tomorrow, March 8th, at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The truly interesting thing is that anyone … Continue reading

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Library Hierarchy of Needs

Remember Mazlow’s Hierarchy of Needs?  Karen Schneider’s take on how that relates to the library universe is an interesting overview of some of the problems with our current automation systems. from ALA TechSource

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