So what?

Posted On Jan 13 2009 by

Whether or not I had young children, I think my favorite movie line would still be from Mary Poppins, where the father, George Banks says to his wife, “Winnifred, please!  Kindly do not cloud the issue with facts.” I’ve been thinking lately about “business intelligence”–the other “BI” that isn’t Bibliographic Instruction (if I start blogging about Bibliographic Instruction, please shoot me).  My simplistic version of this is how do libraries turn simple reports in actual business intelligence?  From a technical standpoint, I have one answer–include more network effect into the data, e.g. how many libraries have this book? or how …