Free Range Librarian

Evergreen (the open source ILS software) gives me hope, and I see more “greening” of LibraryLand. So as I shake and shiver through this nasty brain-sucking cold (it’s hard to get creative when I wake up sounding like a vacuum cleaner), here’s yet more link love today!

“The pilot group for the Michigan Evergreen project will [...]

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Caution to FRL readers: this gets a little geeky. If your eyes glaze over after the second sentence, just skip it.
A year ago in Techsource I wrote a series about the problems with OPACs, and in the course of it wrote about relevance ranking. I said, quite accurately, that TF/IDF was a technology used [...]

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I have to say when I hit “publish” for my Techsource post about post-Deweyfication last night I had no idea it would have 8 comments by this morning. I attribute that to Jessamyn’s link love, and thanks, gal.
As Dorothea over at Caveat Lector notes, the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the post-Deweyfication of the Perry [...]

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