OCLC’s WorldCat Local “Quick Start”
Last week, OCLC announced a "strategy to move library management services to Web scale." With this move, OCLC is rebranding "WorldCat Local" to include funct...
Economies of Scale
Automating Withdrawn Actions: Maximixing the Long Tail of Acquisitions
Libraries place a good deal of emphasis on collection development policies -- a written statement of a library's intentions for building its collection. It ...
Seeking Information about Regional Digitization Centers
I'm looking for information about the formation and management of regional digitization centers for one of the OhioLINK strategic task forces. For our purpo...
Brewster Kahle on the Economics and Feasibility of Mass Book Digitization
Brewster Kahle, Director of the Internet Archive, was interviewed this week in a Chronicle of Higher Education podcast on the Economics and Feasibility of Ma...
MaintainIT Project Gears Up to Support Public Access Computing
I got an e-mail tonight from Franziska Marks, Senior Communications Manager at CompuMentor (and home of TechSoup & the TechSoup NetSquared Initiative), a...
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries to build a consortial repository using FEDORA
On Friday, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries announced the creation of a consortium-wide digital repository project similar to that of the Ohio Dig...
Just In Time Acquisitions versus Just In Case Acquisitions
What of a service existed where the patrons selected an item they needed out of our library catalog and that item was delivered to the patron even when the l...
Appreciating our Heritage while Embracing a Future
Tom Wilson, LITA past president and all-around insightful LITA Top Technology Trendster, posted a commentary to the "Where have all the programmers gone?" p...
Electronic Resource Management Systems in Consortial Environments
This is a summary of the discussion of the LITA Library Consortia / Automated Systems Interest Group meeting on Monday morning of the ALA Annual Convention i...
Evergreen Goes Beta, Signals the End of the World As We Know It
I've got a ton of work to do, but I couldn't let this announcement from Brad LaJeunesse via Dusty Gres on Pub4Lib via Karen Schneider on the newNGC4LIB list ...
“Archiving and Preserving the Web” from the Internet Archive perspective
In case you were wondering what some of the back-channel discussion on the #code4lib IRC channel was on Tuesday, Ed Summers and I were watching an EDUCAUSE w...
Aggregation of Risk in Pursuit of Disruptive Technologies
An open letter to Clayton Christensen as well as colleagues and practitioners of the theories of disruptive innovation: State agencies in Ohio responsible fo...
Germany is at it, too
This just in -- at least to my INBOX -- Germany is working on a unified repository as well. Called the eSciDoc project, it closely mirrors what the DRC is g...
Introducing Geographic Scope to Physical Collections
So I don't know how this one slipped past me: you can link directly into Open WorldCat via an ISBN/ISSN REST-based URL. Now any Web site can create "Find in...