Friday levity, cross-community style
Our colleague Nancy Elkington served up a little Friday levity this Wednesday, and I’ve been waiting all week to share it. Lately, we’ve been puzzling over a better word for …
Read MoreThe Beginning of the End of our Uncertainty
When organizations combine there are inevitably uncertainties for all involved – staff, management, customers, members, partners, affiliates, and friends. During the weeks leading up to the July 1, RLG OCLC …
Read MoreA workshop that worked!
[Edit: added link to online workshop materials] Usually I spend my Fridays working at home trying to stop my cat from encrypting my e-mails, but Friday August 25th I spent …
Read MoreTruly a Powerhouse
After listening to so many speakers at our Forum talk about their backlogs, I thought it’s time for me to come clean with mine. Here’s an item from the museum …
Read MoreHear for yourselves – mp3’s from the Forum
Those of you who know Merrilee know that she usually has a big smile on her face. Well, the other day she had an extra-big smile on her face. When …
Read MorePodcasting, inflight
A number of people have asked how we recorded & edited the talks from the recent Forum, so I thought it might be worth sharing. Since this was our first …
Read MoreA funny thing happened on the way back from the Forum…
We’ve had a lot of email from those who attended the Forum, and also from those who could not, asking (nicely!) when the MP3 and PowerPoint files might be available. …
Read MoreSomehow we missed it…
Was it the fact that I was winging my way to Washington, DC, at the beginning of a 10-day trip (which wraps up today)? Was it the fact that things …
Read MoreRLG Forum, second day, final act
And now, for the final installment of the RLG Forum report… Following lunch on Tuesday, we reconvened with a set of talks on folksonomies, or user supplied tagging. Daniel Starr …
Read MoreRLG Forum, day two, part one
Today, we are only going to update you on the first half of the second day – otherwise this post would get too long, and besides, we want to go …
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