Smorgasbord
Merrilee’s flurry of posts reminded me that it may be time to contribute something meaningful to our little sandbox again. It’s been a really busy beginning of the year for …
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Heads up: RLG member forum
Put these dates on your calendar! August 7 and 8, 2006 will be the RLG member forum. The Forum will be held in Washington, DC, and we’re pleased that the …
Read MoreGot Subjects?
In the wake of a great conference in Boston, the listserv [link to sign-up – sorry, no archive!] of the Museum Computer Network (MCN-L) has been teeming with stimulating discussion. …
Read MoreWatch this space: ArchiveGrid is coming to town
Archivists and researchers will be interested to know that the refashioned Archival Resources will make its debut in early 2006 as ArchiveGrid.org. RLG has long been supportive of the unique …
Read MoreClay Shirky @ Long Now, and Flickr rant
I attended Clay Shirky’s talk part of the Long Now’s Seminars on Long Term Thinking (or SALT) series. The talk was well attended (at least 200 people), and the crowd …
Read MoreDon’t quit your day-job!
How can you possibly top the riveting reports on the >play Digital Media conference by Jim & Anne? Well, the blog has to go on, and while I can’t promise …
Read MoreThe more things change…
Today is the last day at RLG for one of the community’s best advocates and long-time leaders. Linda West, who has managed RLG’s Member Programs and Services for nearly a …
Read Moreyou’re so not a book
As a “friend of UCAI,” I was recently informed that the project to create a Union Catalog of Art Images won’t continue past its research and development stage to spawn …
Read More…and metadata for all.
As our Forum speakers re-iterated time and again, our audiences don’t care whether an item is in a library, an archive or a museum – what they do care about …
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