Last month the Dutch Advisory Committee on Library Innovation published its report “Innovation with Effect“. The report was commissioned by the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, the charge was to draw up a plan for library innovation for the period 2009-2012 including a number of required conditions. Priorities that had to be addressed [...]
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Open Stack 2.0
Last week my colleague Bert Zeeman published a poll “Open stack, get rid of it!” (in Dutch) with 3 options:
1. Yes, of course, should have been done long ago
2. Help, no, open stacks are the backbone of the scientific library
3. Nonsense, like always the truth lies in the middle.
I voted for option 3, which is [...]
System librarians 2.0
It strikes me that training for and documentation about our new Aleph ILS are aimed at three types of staff: system administrators, system librarians and staff (expert) users. Basically system administrators are supposed to take care of “technical stuff” like installing, upgrading, monitoring, backups, general system configuration etc., while staff users are dealing with the [...]
How open are open systems?
In my post “LING - Library integration next generation” I mentioned Marshall Breedings presentation at TICER “Library Automation Challenges for the next generation”.
Besides “Moving toward new generation of library automation” one of his other two topics was “A Mandate for Openness”, about Open Source, Open Systems, Open Content.
Marshall Breeding distinguishes five types of Open Systems, [...]
LING - Library integration next generation
End of August I attended the Technological Developments: Threats and Opportunities for Libraries module of TICER - Digital Libraries à la Carte 2008 at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands.
One of the speakers was Marshall Breeding. His presentation “Library Automation Challenges for the next generation” consisted of three topics, one of which was “Moving toward [...]
Turning the Pages 2.0
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