There were some times when I didn’t think I would see the day.  But this week,WorldShare Management Services just saw its 100th library go live with the service.  We have dozens more in the queue, of course, but this 100th is quite a milestone. Kudos to the University of Nebraska Omaha! The WorldShare Management Services team has continued to exceed my expectations.  Not that long ago, we had a vision and hundreds of libraries ready for change, ready to do things differently so that they could do different things.  Today we’ve got this huge milestone and a growing and actively engaged WorldShare community.  It’s …

  Many thanks to my colleague, Katie Birch, for pointing out a relatively random Wikipedia page about “Doing more with less.” “David Simon has professed that despite being an oft-repeated command to dying institutions, the ability to do more with less is an inherent impossibility.”   Please don’t infer that I am calling libraries “dying institutions.”  My more radical point is that a library who says they are attempting to do more with less is pigeon-holing itself in the ‘dying institution’ category with that mindset. As a systems librarian, my professional goal has always been to implement efficiency into library …