I seem to remember, in the early heady days of the internet, there was a cry from the library profession to "Catalog the Internet" -- to create descriptive records and controlled vocabularies for every resource out there deemed useful. The early Yahoo!, with a librarian on the staff, was going to …

My undergraduate background is in computer science, and from that perspective I have a great deal of admiration for MARC and AACR as well as their creators and proponents: Henriette Avram and Michael Gorman. At their creation, MARC and AACR propelled library services to new heights of efficiency and usefulness …

The New York Times Sunday Magazine had an article with the title Scan This Book! that one could consider to be the best (latest) summary of the race to digitally scan and serve up books. This is an article I could give my mother (Happy Mother's Day, Mom!) that would …

On Thursday, Google announced a new service in the labs: Related Links

Last week, we quietly rolled out Google Related Links, which lets you display a unit of useful links on your web site related to your site's content, including relevant news, searches, and web pages. It is a great …

I've moved the bibliography of the theory of disruptive innovation as applied to libraries and higher education to a new location. If you are reading this posting directly from the DLTJ website, you'll also find it linked under the "about" header as "bibliography".

The bibliography has also been updated to …

Somehow I completely missed this paper by Clayton Christensen, Sally Aaron, and William Clark from the EDUCAUSE 2001 Forum for the Future of Higher Education called, appropriately enough, "Disruption in Education." Here is the abstract:

Clayton Christensen, Sally Aaron and William Clark, focus on the effects of disruptive technology that …

OhioLINK was pleased to host David Lewis, Director of the Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis Library, to talk about "Disruptive Innovation and the Academic Library". The PowerPoint of his presentation is in IUPUI's institutional repository, and I recommend it as a gentle visual introduction to the application of Clayton …

What follows is pure conjecture; I did not live through the time in question, I can only speculate based on biased evidence and anecdotal hearsay. This is a blog, after all, right? Feedback is welcome.

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Thomas Friedman, author of Longitudes and Attitudes and The World Is Flat, has a column in Friday's New York Times called The New 'Sputnik' Challenges: They All Run on Oil. In it he talks about an energy crisis brought on by four factors: the high price of oil, emerging markets …