Tomorrow morning I’ll go to Denver to the Innovative Users Group conference. I’m learn a bit more about customizing our OPAC interface; meet some people to help me jack it up before I explode it.
I’ve been doing a bit of searching about non-conference activites and am particularly looking forward to Body Worlds at the [...]

On Friday morning, my family - who haven’t all been together in over a year - will pull up to my doorstep, load my bags in the car, and drive eight hours (allowing for snack-time) together to Syracuse, NY. On Saturday, the three of them will watch me gather my freshly minted MLIS at [...]

I’m consistently frustrated and amazed by the inefficiencies of professional library software. In general, it’s bad, but when it comes to customizing interfaces and integrating components, they’re pretty much universally hopeless. We rarely ask for better. Like whipped dogs we slink around accepting whatever the vendors bestow upon us. It’s strange [...]

What does a scholar do the day after they complete their MLIS coursework? Why, sign up for Library Thing, of course. It wasn’t, afterall, purchased by WalMart but it inspired this kiddo to start forming even stronger opinions about library OPAC functionality. Why, for instance, do we differentiate the OPAC from the [...]