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Thomson (of Thomson Gale) No Longer in the Education Business

Thomson (of Thomson Gale) No Longer in the Education Business

Published by Iris on Friday, October 27th, 2006

Thomson Gale is probably one of the most recognized names in library and reference resources, but the day before yesterday Thomson Corporation announced that it would be selling off it’s Thomson Learning business as of January 1st, 2007. Here’s what they say:

The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) today announced a realignment of operations to sharpen its strategic focus on providing electronic workflow solutions to business and professional markets and better position the company for future growth. As part of the realignment, which becomes effective January 1, 2007, Thomson intends to sell its Thomson Learning businesses, including those serving the higher education, careers, library reference, corporate e-learning and e-testing markets. (From their Oct. 25th Press Release)

They’re splitting Thomson Learning into three parts, and the bidding for the higher education part has not yet started.

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Free Beta Open-Source CMS

Free Beta Open-Source CMS

Published by Iris on Friday, October 27th, 2006

The Web Services Group at my college has developed a Content Management System that the whole college has been using for a couple of years. Last year the library migrated over to this system (and instantly became the “power users” on campus), and just the day before yesterday the current version was released as a beta open-source CMS called Reason.

Earlier this month there were a spate of messages on Web4Lib talking about the pros and cons of a CMS, and a few people wondering if there were any cheep ones out there. Well, this one’s free, but it’s beta. It’s a very good beta, but still…

I’m no techie, but the guys that built this thing work within the library (they don’t work for the library, but their offices are here), so I can hook you up if you have questions.

In other open-source news, Northeastern University has incluced our material type icons in their catalog. Cool!

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Crazy Dream

Published by Iris on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

I don’t know if it’s something I ate or what, but I’ve had the craziest dream. My Immersion 06 classmates and I were competing to create gourmet drinks (mine had something to do with cola and canned fruit with ice… but it was so much more complicated than that, and probably just as revolting as that sounds), and Tim Gunn from Project Runway was judging us.

I’d just been told to “make it work,” when I discovered I had to blow my nose, so I used a tissue from a pile I found in one corner of the table. I had no idea that this was the center piece of a creation by Jason, and apparently he thought I’d deliberately sabotaged his project. He was so mad that he ground up a glass ball (like the ones you hang on Christmas trees) into my drink!

All I can say is that I would never knowingly sabotage your tissue-esque greatness, Jason. Please don’t try to kill me with tiny shards of glass.

I think I’ll try to get more sleep in the next few days, and maybe drink soothing tea before bed. Though there’s no break in my schedule for a bit yet. Hmmmm…. Maybe I’ll just have to put up with wacky dreams for a bit.

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