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Monthly Archives: April 2009
It’s Been Quite A Week
Last Tuesday we hosted one of the periodic meetings of the reference and instruction librarians that work at the five Oberlin Group libraries in Minnesota. At least once a year we have a “Round Robin” session where we basically sit down, eat lunch, and then talk all afternoon about what each of our libraries are [...]
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The New New OCLC
Just when you thought you’d gotten to know the new OCLC, it shakes things up again. OCLC is now in the ILS business and WorldCat Local is now free to FirstSearch subscribers. My first thought on reading about all of this yesterday was that all those pilot WorldCat Local schools must be steamed that this [...]
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LSW’s Growing Pains
An interesting thing happened. This little group of friends decided, mostly as a joke, to call themselves the Library Society of the World. Then that Society got big. The amateur anthropologist in me has been watching the group negotiate this phenomenon for a while now, and it’s fascinating. Here’s a short sketch. Two years ago, [...]
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Have Interest – Will Adopt New Conference
For the last couple of years, I’ve been wondering just which conference I should adopt as “my” conference. I want it to be one where the sessions are thought provoking and where I’ll get to hang out with people I know and like and are interested in things I’m interested in, and where I can [...]
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And So They Burned It