Free Range Librarian

K.G. Schneider’s blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else, since 2003.

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Entries Tagged as 'Standards Schmandards'

Top Technology Trends, ALA Midwinter 2008

January 9th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Mild post updates:
First, if you are attending Midwinter and want to see the LITA Trendsters in action, it’s Sunday, January 13, 2008, 8-10 a.m., LOEWS Congress B. The session will be recorded, but we’re so much more fun f2f.
Second, under interoperability/open data I’d add NISO’s ballot item to establish a working group on serial knowledge [...]

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Tags: American Liberry Ass'n · Hot Tech · Standards Schmandards

Toward Standards 2.0

November 15th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Over on TechEssence, Roy Tennant has posted a manifesto about library software.
The part of the manifesto that hit me most was the list of consumer responsibilities… and though the manifesto is good and deserves discussion on its own point, I’m going to drift in another direction.
I just spent two days among very smart, dedicated people [...]

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Tags: Standards Schmandards