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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • 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 functions typically associated with an integrated library system. From the press release:

    OCLC plans to release Web-scale delivery and circulation, print and electronic acquisitions, and license …

     Posted on  April 29, 2009
     and last updated April 29, 2009
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Automating Withdrawn Actions: Maximixing the Long Tail of Acquisitions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 describes the collection's strengths and weaknesses and provides guidelines for the purchase ("acquisition") and disposition ("weeding") of content. This is an activity that sets libraries apart from …

     Posted on  July 05, 2007
     and last updated July 05, 2007
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • 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 purposes, a "regional digitization center" is a place that has the hardware, software, and human expertise to convert a variety of media to digital form. (We're primarily …

     Posted on  May 18, 2007
     and last updated May 18, 2007
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • 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 for primary, secondary and higher education are coming together to share the risk of exploring disruptive technologies and to shepherd the adoption of successful technologies into the …

     Posted on  January 20, 2006
     and last updated January 20, 2006
     ·  3 minutes reading time