Family Man Librarian

I may work for Endeavor but I do not intend or want to be a free cheerleader for them here. Yet I can’t resist mentioning a list of presentations planned for EndUser 2006, Endeavor’s upcoming user group conference, that are squarely in the “sweet spot” of discussions that have been going on about social [...]

Disaffection with the traditional integrated library system (ILS) is widespread these days. Terms that are frequently bandied about to describe them are “monolithic” “inflexible” “expensive” and “unfriendly”, just to name a few. Many librarians increasingly question the level of investment that purchasing and maintaining ILSs requires, particularly in the face of users’ dramatically changed expectations [...]

ACM Queue - A Call to Arms - Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand.
This article on the need for further research and development into new database architectures is pretty interesting. Although somewhat technical in parts, I think I got the gist of it. I found [...]