I wrote yesterday of Nicole Engard’s comment that the ILS was about as open and flexible as a brick wall. Today I learned that the vendor of that ILS had tried to squash her public criticism.
Not cool.
It’s pure speculation on my part, but what comes next? Surely no vendor would send Vinny over to bust [...]
Posted June 14, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: criticism, iii, ils, ILS Customer Bill-of-Rights, Innovative Interfaces, John Blyberg, libraries, library, Nicole Engard, squashing criticism, squelched. 6 Comments.
You don’t like the “2.0” moniker? So what. John Blyberg reminds us that “if we’re arguing over semantics, we’ve been derailed.” And Stephen Abram is said to have cautioned us: “when librarians study something to death, we forget that death was not the original goal.”
John Blyberg, Jenny Levine, Stephen Abram, lib20, library 2.0, library20, library, [...]
Posted December 15, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: evolve, future of library, go get evolving, jenny levine, John Blyberg, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library20, Stephen Abram. 2 Comments.