Yesterday I got my first blog-related phone call! Yep, George D called me out of the blue because he had just read my Touched a Nerve post (which was a response to my State of our ILS post) and wanted to chat (and rant) about III and the future of catalogs in general.

I was able to point George to some more resources on the changing nature of the catalog, including my summary of Paul Miller’s presentation at CIL2006 and the Next generation catalogs for libraries listserv. I forgot to point out a few more resources right here at What I Learned Today….

Since the post is way down in my archives I wanted to bring everyone’s attention to George’s comments. Also he brought up an interesting bit of trivia I wanted to share with everyone (because it was just too funny).

George called III the “Cadillac” of ILS’s - which I found interesting because my director called it that a while ago too. He then points out:

BTW, a little trivia, the first generation Cadillac ('76-79) was based upon the same platform used by the Chevy Nova.

That's our ILS - still built upon that old Chevy Nova foundation!!!

How funny is that?? It’s so true - I guess III is a “Cadillac” - but it’s a first generation “Cadillac”.

You can view George’s other comments by reading the original thread.