More on What Does It Mean to Be a Member of OCLC
Jay Jordan's remarks during the OCLC Update Breakfast and the discussion at the Developers Network table at that breakfast generated further fuel for my prev...
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Interesting Bits from the OCLC Update Breakfast
I think it is a statistical anomaly that many of the meetings I attended during ALA Midwinter were somehow related to OCLC. That statistical anomaly has cer...
Notes from the OCLC Record Use Policy Council discussion
On Saturday morning of ALA Midwinter 2010, Dr. Jennifer Younger moderated a session on the progress of the OCLC Record Use Policy Council. The meeting start...
What Does It Mean to Be a Member of OCLC?
This morning I was at the OCLC Americas Regional Council Meeting just prior to the opening of the ALA Midwinter 2010 meeting. In addition to the prepared ta...
Why I Digitally Sign My E-Mail
Most e-mail messages I send are digitally signed using a process called “Pretty Good Privacy”, or PGP. In e-mail applications that don’t understand PGP, this...
A New Year, a New PGP Key
It is the start of a new year ((Some have even said it is the start of a new decade, but of course that isn’t true. We won’t start a new decade until 2011, ...
On Being Fodder for Questionable Twitter Posts
Okay, I know this is starting to seem like an obsession, but I can’t figure out why someone(s) would be constructing tweets that consist of my blog post head...
Why I Need Twitter Distillation Tools
The following may not be news to those who regularly hang out in Twitter-land, but the extent of the problem recently became clear to me: there is a bunch o...
Midwinter Meeting Schedule (Plus News of a Free Midwinter Airport Shuttle)
The year is coming to a close, so that must mean that the midwinter meeting of the American Library Association is right around the corner. Yep, there it i...
OCLC Introduces an API for Anyone to Access Book Data
OCLC announced on Monday the availability of a new API for querying the WorldCat database: the WorldCat Basic API. This is a big deal -- it opens up part of...
Ohio Educational Technology Conference Program Posted
For those interested and involved with distance and technology enhanced learning or have attended one of the past ODCE/LLT higher education conferences, you'...
Presentation Announcement: Re-Imagining the Bibliographic Universe – FRBR, Physics and the World Wide Web
Add this event to your desktop calendar program. Next Monday (November 30, 2009) a colleague at the Library of Congress will be giving a presentation on mode...