Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Read for next meeting

Calhoun Report

FRBR by Tilly

IS - survey - Metalib

5-6 questions
open ended

What should they be?
Any suggestions welcome!

Possible Questions:

1.Do you anticipate using metalib often? More often then specific database interfaces?
2.Why or why not?
3.What do you like about metalib?
4.What do you see as the limitations of metalib?

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

IS response to Metalib

From a public service viewpoint, what do you think of Metalib? How do you like federated searches? What are the strengths and weaknesses of federated searching?

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Podcast "Bolt-on OPACs"

I found this Bolt-on OPACs panel discussion podcast to be interesting. Panel members include many of the movers and shakers in the Next-Gen OPAC world.