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. [...]

John Blyberg has a great summary post of the fiasco that seems to have started with my State of our ILS post. I advise you to read it and see all the different sides of the story. I also left a pretty long comment on John’s post, so I’ll let you read my [...]

Iris over and Pegasus Librarian has a post explaining a little bit of why our library systems are the way they are. She says that she can empathize with vendors like Innovative, but not sympathize with them.
I’d take that one step further - I empathize with the staff - the people in charge [...]

Daniel Chudnov has a post over at One Big Library stating the problems with the ILS Customer Bill of Rights. While I agree with his points - he missed a big one. Since I was busy all day, someone beat me to pointing it out:
I think I understand where he is coming from. [...]

I love them!! Check out these new buttons mentioned at See Also. (It’s only right that I give credit for the first button to the Free Range Librarian).

Over at Disruptive Library Technology Jester there is a post about the future of the ILS. You all know where I stand on the issue - and Peter Murray links right to my opinions from his post.
I was out of the office yesterday presenting at LaSalle University for the LVJ Summer Institutes [...]

Most of you (over 1000 of you) have read my post on the State of our ILS. Well I recently found out that at least one of those people was from Innovative!
2 people from my library were able to attend the recent IUG (Innovative Users Group) conference in Colorado. While at a big [...]

Meredith has posted her interview with Casey Bisson over at Information Wants To Be Free. Read it! And read the comments, there’s a great discussion going on.

I’m finally reading this report - and I have to admit at first I thought it would be a dry research type paper - but it’s good! I have actually found my self laughing out loud - not necessarily because it’s funny - but because I’ve been saying some of the same things and so [...]

This was posted on our Intranet by our head of Technical Services:
This year during the ILUG @ AALL (July 2006). There will be discussion on the State of the Innovative System. I would like to get your thoughts and present them during this discussion. Things that will be discussed are:
How has Millennium worked in your [...]

I mentioned that this report (The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools) would be coming in my post on the future of catalogs - well it’s here and I have one more week at home to read all 52 pages. I’ll have a report for you once I [...]

A member of the Web4Lib list asked this question:
I and a colleague are interested in alternative web OPAC front end systems such as the aquabrowser (http://aquabrowser2.kcls.org/aquabrowser/ ). We’d like to write an article on the topic, exploring the pros and cons. So far, I know about Aquabrowser, endeca (http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/endeca/ ) and Casy Bissons [...]

Paul Miller has posted a follow up to his presentation at CIL last week. He commented on our (the biblioblogosphere’s) doubts that vendors will ever live up to the dream he presented to us.
Change is hard. Change can hurt. Given where we are now, and where the wider world is going, change is essential. We [...]

It’s funny that right as I’m complaining to my staff here that I HATE our ILS (oh boy did you miss a great temper tantrum on my part) , other librarians are doing the same. John Blyberg discusses The Rime of the Ancient ILS, Sarah Houghton talks about how Library Systems Vendors Stray from [...]

Are you keeping with the Bill-of-Rights discussion?

ILS Customer Bill-of-Rights
Talis Reply
John's Reply
Talis Reply

And now John has replied again.
The thing I love about this back and forth is that there is no bashing going on … these two are using their blogs to have a professional discussion … a discussion they could have on the phone [...]

Talis has a reply to John's reply to their reply to the ILS Customer Bill-of-Rights … get that? As Richard from Talis puts it:
Anyway, I'm now going to make life even more complex by responding to Joh's response to my response to his Bill-of-rights.
I'm not going to comment too much … because I forsee a [...]

I posted earlier this week about the ILS Customer Bill-of-Rights that John over at blyberg.net posted. This post has been commented on several other library related blogs over the past week … but the first (that I know of) reply from a vendor was posted yesterday by Talis (not the vendor we use).
I like that [...]

John over at blyberg.net has a great post that I read this morning.
RSS 2.0 in September 2002. It's almost 2006 and ILS vendors are just now starting to unveil some RSS feeds. We shouldn't be treating those announcements like watershed moments. They're tidbits of “too-little-too-late” packaged in shiny wrappers, served with a helping of “Who's [...]