Web-scale Blogging
Posted On May 8 2009This week I had the good fortune to participate in a Talk with Talis with Richard Wallis. I can’t quite tolerate listening to the sound of my own voice, but I hope others will give it a listen. One of the questions he asked me was about OCLC’s use of the term ‘web-scale’ (often hyphenated as a compound adjective, and not hyphenated otherwise, but I am now erring toward hyphen consistency). Some have referred to it as synonymous with ‘the web’, however, I think there is a distinction that those more familiar with the history and state of library automation …
A Week at Web-Scale
Posted On May 1 2009I’ve had a great time this week, talking to media and bloggers, tweeting, talking to colleagues in libraries, and engaging the community towards OCLC’s new Web-scale effort. The amount of energy and curiosity around this new effort is amazing. The cooperative nature of this profession makes this effort worthwhile. I’m looking forward to the opportunities in the months ahead to share more details and gather more reaction to the web-scale management services strategy. More specific details on my project are forthcoming, on this blog, and on the OCLC Product Works page. I’m convinced that it will be some time before the …
And now for something completely different
Posted On Apr 23 2009Five years ago, I wrote an article for Library Journal about “Dismantling the System.” At the end of that article, I suggested that it would be necessary for us to dismantle systems so that we could rebuild them. Of course, I left out how exactly we should do that. Now it’s time to be more explicit about what I have been up to for the last 15 months. I’ve been pretty busy listening to the library community, trying to put their views into a strategy, and creating something new that I hope will represent a real sea-change for libraries and the OCLC …