WorldShare Management Services turns One Hundred

Posted On Mar 6 2012 by

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 …


Can we be more with what we have?

Posted On Dec 8 2011 by

  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 …


A New Brand Day

Posted On Dec 5 2011 by

So 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 …