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Designing my ideal ILS
Today in our management meeting, our Executive Director, Gina Millsap, made the comment to the effect that much of the talk with open source systems is just using that tool to replicate existing ILS practices. This thought ties into my recent post about the inter-relation between library catalogs and other sources such as bookstores. All of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Print on Demand
Related to my last post, a timely article: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/31/ny_public_library_gi.html NY Public is doing the print on demand for books. While early in the program, this is certainly an interesting trend to watch. Does this mean that libraries and bookstores merge at some point? There are titles that I want to own, but I read many books [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Recent reading
I just finished reading “The Starfish and the Spider: The unstoppable power of leaderless organizations” by Ori Brafmans and Rod Beckstrom. I highly recommend this book. It’s a fairly quick read and the thesis is supported by multiple examples.
Assuming their thesis is correct, it has a number of implications for libraries, but the one that [...]
