I’m here at the NELINET Bibliographic Services Conference at the College of the Holy Cross today.
The conference is titled “Google vs. the OPAC: the challenge is on!” and there’s quite a lineup of speakers.
My presentation is on “the social life of metadata.” My slides are online, and below is some background.
The Library Catalog…
The catalog is [...]

Posted November 18, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: bibliographic services, bibliographic services conference, google, google vs. the opac, libraries, library, library catalog, library catalogs, nelinet, nelinet bibliographic services conference, opac, opacs, social life of metadata, the social life of metadata, worcester, worcester ma. 3 Comments.

I was tempted to speak without slides yesterday, and I must offer my apologies to anybody trying to read them now, as I’m not sure how the slides make sense without the context of my speech. On that point, it’s worth knowing that Lichen did an outstanding job liveblogging the event, despite struggling with a [...]

Posted November 16, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: asist, authentication service, buy hack or build, databases, hack, hacks, identity management, libraries, library, library catalog, library services, neasis&t, opac, opac hacks, university portal. 5 Comments.

Ryan beat me to reporting on the interesting new services at the Ockham Network (noted in this Web4lib post). The easiest one to grok is this spelling service, but there are others that are cooler.
He also alerted me to a Perl script to proxy Z39.50 to RSS. Though for those more into PHP (like me), [...]

Posted October 4, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: cat date, ils, index data, information retrieval, libaries, library, library catalog, library systems, ockham, opac, perl script, php, rss, search by cat date, sort by cat date, xml, yaz, z39.50, z39.50 proxy. Be the first one.

Libraries are known for books. And despite the constant march of technology, despite the fact that we can put a bazillion songs in our pocket, despite the availability of the New York Times and so many other newspapers and thousands of journals online, books are a big part of what libraries are. Books, dead tree [...]

Posted July 26, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Technology. Tags: handheld, handheld computer, laptop, laptop computer, libraries, library, library catalog, library catalogs, opac, pepper, pepper computer, pepper pad, ultra portable. 5 Comments.

I think I’ve been avoiding commenting on this issue for weeks because it hits so close to home. First I read it in BiblioAcid, then Jenny Levine picked it up, then Richard Ackerman picked it up at the Science Library Pad: library catalogs are broken, and there’s no amount of adding pictures or fiddling with [...]

Posted May 24, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: conference, iug, jenny levine, library, library catalog, library journal, opac, presentation, richard ackerman, roy tennant, science library, search box, server applications. 2 Comments.