Tomorrow is moving day. After that I have Library Camp in NYC and a Demo of Koha at work. Maybe after all of that I’ll have some time to breathe and read and write again.
On another exciting note - I finish my MLS at the end of this month! So, get ready for [...]

I just read a post by Lorcan Dempsey about Good to great : why some companies make the leap–and others don’t by James Collins and it sounds like an interesting read. In a time when libraries are trying to Borderize themselves, it might be worth reading what Collins has to say.
We must reject the [...]

Boy, I have a lot of catching up to do. There is a very to the point post at the Blog about Libraries titled: “I didn’t get an MLS to do that.”

Professions do not stand still.Have you ever met a plumber who doesn’t work with PVC? An electrician who only uses knob and tube wiring? [...]

Richard Wallis has a post at Panlibus about an article found via the BBC regarding the Open Library project.
My favorite quote:
As with the rest of society, the fear of something nasty happening can be far more corrosive that the possibility of it happening.
Maybe I should give you a little bit of background. This was [...]

Tim at LibraryThing has a short - and very to the point post at Thingology.
I have seen the future of libraries: It is to spend the future discussing the future of libraries.
I had to give a sad giggle at this post …
I don’t have much to add, but I do agree with commenter James:
Luckily I [...]

There is a cute comic over at Penny Arcade that asks “…so you’re saying men can be librarians?”

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Via Cataloging Futures (Chris won’t mind…):
Over on the LITA Blog, Rebecca Guenther provides information about an ALA Annual 2007 program that was sponsored by the LITA Standards Interest Group, Using Metadata Standards in Digital Libraries: implementing METS, MODS, PREMIS and MIX:

Rebecca Guenther, Library of Congress:
Using Metadata Standards in Digital Libraries: Introduction to METS, MODS, PREMIS [...]

I just read via Information Research Weblog that SAGE Publications if offering free access (through September 30th) to current and back issues of the following journals:

IFLA Journal
Journal of Information Science
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
Information Development
Business Information Review
Journal of Health Informatics

If you’re curious, sign up for a free trial to find articles of interest to [...]

So I just spent the last three days learning about XQuery for work. Five years ago I took a 4 day course in PHP programming and I was the both the youngest in the session and the only female - the same is true five years later for the XQuery training! Where are [...]