MHSLA, the Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association is having their annual conference in Bay City at the Doubletree Hotel, from September 26-28. I had the pleasure of working at the MLC table on Thursday. And enjoyed meeting with many of our MLC members. Well, while enjoying my wonderful taco bar lunch we were treated to …Read more »

The New York Times has an interesting article today about eBooks and the new “Kindle” reader coming from Amazon. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/technology/06amazon.html

College students always start at Google when they have an assignment to do, right? They ignore all those journals and databases colleges and universities spend so much money for, right? That seems to be the conventional wisdom these days anyway. But First Monday has a paper in its current edition that disputes that bit of …Read more »

For several years, INCOLSA, the Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority, has run a shared integrated library system for about 30 libraries. This week they announced that they are migrating from SirsiDynix to Koha ZOOM, an open-source ILS. I’ve started a conversation with INCOLSA’s executive director about their decision and the benefits they expect to see …Read more »

A Most Bookish Borough Queens Library http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/opinion/17fri4.html?em&ex=1187582400&en=380a4faecf3c3b14&ei=5070

“Imagine a library that collected all the world’s information about all the world’s books and made it available for everyone to view and update.” http://demo.openlibrary.org/

In February 2007, the OCLC Board of Trustees authorized a review of OCLC’s governance structure. The review, which will be facilitated by the Higher Education Consultancy Group in the United Kingdom, will evaluate current and alternative governance forms for OCLC as it becomes an increasingly global cooperative. To ensure wide consultation for the study, the Board, OCLC …Read more »

An interesting NY Times article about Public Libraries and the Dewey Decimal System. “Neighborhoods” vs Dewey for shelving and cataloging. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/14/us/14dewey.html

Great article from the New York Times Fashion & Style section about the “new breed” of librarians.

This week, Unshelved offers a great spoof of the “I’m a PC, I’m a MAC” campaign with comic strips on “Hi, I’m the Internet, and I’m the Library.” Starting with the June 25 comic strip, Unshelved’s Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum have hit the nail on the head yet again. 🙂