It’s sort of late by now, and others have been offering their congratulations to me for a while (thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you), but I only just got the paper copy myself and this morning had a chance to browse the list.
Mover & Shaker alumnus John Blyberg asked me if I [...]

Posted April 8, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: congratulations, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library journal, movers and shakers, thank you. Be the first one.

I’d meant to point out these two articles from Library Journal ages ago, but now that I’m putting together my presentations for next week (NEASIS&T & NELINET), I realized I hadn’t.
Roy Tennant writes in Doing Data Differently that “our rich collections of metadata are underused.” While Roland Dietz & Carl Grant, in the same issue, [...]

Posted November 10, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: dis-integration, integration, libraries, library journal, library systems, metadata, using metadata. 3 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 Bisson
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.