https://maisonbisson.com/tags/library-systems/ Recent content in library systems on MaisonBisson Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:27:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-boston-library-consortium-presentation/ Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:27:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-boston-library-consortium-presentation/ Speaking Thursday at the Boston Library Consortium‘s annual meeting in the beautiful Boston Public Library, my focus was on the status of our library systems and the importance of remixability. https://maisonbisson.com/post/linkability-fertilizes-online-communities-redux/ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:46:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/linkability-fertilizes-online-communities-redux/ I certainly don’t mean this to be as snarky as it’s about to come out, but I love the fact that Isaak questions my claim that linkability is essential to online discussions (and thus, communities) with a link: https://maisonbisson.com/post/tags-folksonomies-and-whose-library-is-it-anyway/ Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:33:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tags-folksonomies-and-whose-library-is-it-anyway/ I was honored to join the conversation yesterday for the latest Talis Library 2.0 Gang podcast, this one on folksonomies and tags. https://maisonbisson.com/post/context-language-systems/ Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:17:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/context-language-systems/ “Bagged products” is little better than “cookery.” I’m gonna bet that no customer has ever asked the sales people for “bagged products,” that nobody’s ever checked the yellow pages for “bagged products,” and without context, nobody would come close to answering a question on what the heck “bagged products” are all about. https://maisonbisson.com/post/linkability-is-community/ Mon, 15 May 2006 14:58:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/linkability-is-community/ It’s hard to know how Fuzzyfruit found the WPopac catalog page for A Baby Sister for Frances (though it is ranked fifth in a Google search for the title), but what matters is that she did find it, and she was able to link to it by simply copying the URL from her browser’s location bar. https://maisonbisson.com/post/information-behavior/ Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:16:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/information-behavior/ It was more than a year ago that Lorcan Dempsey pointed out this bit from The Chronicle: https://maisonbisson.com/post/code4lib-program-proposal/ Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:42:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/code4lib-program-proposal/ I’d be excited just to be a fly on the wall at code4lib, but I’m on a bit of a mission to change the architecture of our library software — to make it more hackable, and make those hacks more sharable — so I had to propose a talk. https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-integration-stuff/ Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:52:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-integration-stuff/ 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. https://maisonbisson.com/post/findability-the-google-economy-and-libraries/ Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:06:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/findability-the-google-economy-and-libraries/ Peter Morville, author of Ambient Findability, stirred up the web4lib email list with a message about Authority and Findability. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ockham-network-web-services/ Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:16:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ockham-network-web-services/ Ryan beat me to reporting on the interesting new services at the Ockham Network (noted in this Web4lib post). https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-high-cost-of-metasearch-for-libraries/ Sun, 10 Jul 2005 06:13:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-high-cost-of-metasearch-for-libraries/ I’ve been looking seriously at metasearch/federated search products for libraries recently. After a lot of reading and a few demos I’ve got some complaints.