We’re having a ball!
Posted On May 3 2013A couple of months ago, we asked the WorldShare Management Services community to contribute videos to help us celebrate the fact that we reached the milestone of having 100 libraries “live” on WMS. We had a terrific response from the WMS community. We had nearly 40 submissions from WMS libraries in Australia, Canada and across the United States–truly illustrating the growing worldwide community. Here’s the compiled video, edited slightly to get all 40 segments just over 4 minutes. Enjoy! There are definitely a lot of fun and creative people among the WMS community. But we already new libraries were like …
Fewer Shades of Grey
Posted On Sep 14 2012When I was in library school in the mid-nineties, I was told there was a “greying of the profession” in process. As I cocky, young, soon-to-be librarian, I read this threat as a promise. So many librarians would be retiring in the next 20 years that we literally could not fill their seats with the new generations of librarians “coming online.” I was intrigued by the challenge but utterly stunned by the professional response. Somehow this looming threat was turning into a library school recruitment effort. I had a different reaction. If we were a factory, I thought, and we …
A New Brand Day
Posted On Dec 5 2011So at some point, blogging became like exercise to me. It used to come easily because I did it regularly, and if I didn’t do it regularly, I missed it terribly. I hear that runners get like this…I wouldn’t know. Despite my hectic pace, it’s more webscale than cardiovascular. So, I’m trying once again to turn over a new leaf, looking for an equivalent to new year’s day to start blogging again. I figured that OCLC’sintroduction of a new brand is as good way to start as any. OCLC WorldShare I won’t bore any of you with what goes into …