A coelacanth is a hollow-spined fish. So how come when you do a keyword search for coelacanth in our library catalog, the first result is: The Best women’s stage monologues of 2003 / edited by D.L. Lepidus. (NB: we do own books on coelacanths.) Also, that link will stop working real soon. That’s reason #232 to [...]
Interrupting radio silence to kvetch a little… Just got an email via a listserv which contains what promises to be an interesting recap of a session that I didn’t get to attend at ALA Midwinter. But…the recap is attached to the email as a Word document. Grr. Why would this rankle me? Well, there’s the [...]
Lately I’ve been thinking about how we could move towards being able to offer a single search box that can placed on the library homepage. Ideally, the box could also be easily dropped into disparate locations (subject search pages, WebCT, departmental research pages? personal websites? MySpace?) The box would search the libraries’ catalog, databases, and [...]
There is rarely enough time in the work day to get done what I need to get done, and so things that require huge time investments but shouldn’t are particularly poignant and irritating. Here are two that pop up with some frequency. Technological solutions exist for both, and I should probably start agitating for us [...]
John Blyberg nails it: I was on a top technology trends panel at OLA last January when someone asked, “what if we don’t want to learn about all these new technologies?” (paraphrase). I don’t think I was in the mood for hand-holding because my answer was, “it’s your job.” Really. I don’t believe libraries are [...]