I know I use this blog a lot more to talk about what’s wrong than what’s right; maybe that’s human nature, or maybe it’s just mine. I tend to belong to the “if nobody points out it’s broken, how can we fix it?” school of thought, which can be very…
So, this “keeping my [assigned] notes in my real blog (instead of starting a new blog just for that purpose)” thing has been an experiment, and it’s not going to happen again. Should I have another instructor who makes the same kind of assignment–keep reading notes and questions about the…
I am, for all intents and purposes (give or take a moderated post to a discussion board or three), done with LIS 2700, Pitt’s not-so-briefly-named “Managing Libraries & Information Systems & Services.” I have a “management portfolio” to show for it–an environmental scan, needs assessment, budget, staffing plan, and business…
Muddy Point: You didn’t seem to believe that having a single, unified interface to the digital libraries of the world would be a good thing. I’m curious about that and wonder if you could talk more about why not. Reading: I really just skimmed briefly this week, I’ll be honest.…
I’ve been pretty bad about posting my class essays up here, for a number of reasons. One of the big ones is that they are so specific to the questions, and I make kind of lazy references to books that I don’t expect everyone on my blogroll to have read.…
I’ve discovered a real problem, folks: most of the people I really want to work with–whose books, ideas, blogs, and podcasts have most influenced my thinking over this semester and who I think have the greatest chance of effecting real change in technology policies and practices (if anybody would just…
I found out about this by way of librarian.net and want to pass it along to anyone who might be interested. By way of explanation: OCLC, the not-for-profit that provides library services around the world, has gone too far. Originally, it was a library collaborative — one library could catalog…
Arms is at it again. (It seems like the Digital Library World has between three and five really prolific authors and then a bunch of people who wrote one or two articles.) For the most part, his article rung the “Duh” bell: of course users would prefer to have one…
For folks in 2670, I hope this helps. For folks outside of 2670, I recommend against using Greenstone Digital Library software, but if you find that you have to, I hope this helps you install it, at least for local use. If I find any good tricks for using Greenstone,…
So, I picked my classes: LIS 2002: Retrieving Information (required core course, blended format)LIS 2405: Intro to Cataloging and Classification (online only course)LIS 2690: Information Visualization (blended format)LIS 2879: Academic Librarianship (blended format) You’ll notice two things about them. One, it’s a pretty fun and interesting set of things to…