Very thoughtful and appropriate responses, James. I certainly hope
the conclusion Kyle's boss has come to is wrong. It would indeed
eliminate many of the benefits of moving to an open source ILS.
Moving the state or any other entity into the role of all-powerful ILS
vendor (even if they have mor
I used to work there (the State Library of Pennsylvania). And I believe
that, technically, it is the "Office of Commonwealth Libraries" (OCL)
that would be in the authority position. (The "Office" consists of two
"bureaus": the Bureau of State Library (BSL), and the Bureau of Library
Development
Wow, does the State Library really have that much authority over
individual libraries (legal or otherwise)?
I would find that hugely surprising. But then here in NH we don't even
have any county-wide systems. For the most part, it's every town/ city
library for itself ...
Cab Vinton, Director
San
Weinheimer Jim wrote:
> In this vein, you may be interested in a new OCLC report: "Research
> Libraries, Risk and Systemic Change"
> http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2010-03-25.htm which is not just
> about research libraries.
[...]
> Their solution of a shared infrastructure would seem to mirror
In this vein, you may be interested in a new OCLC report: "Research Libraries,
Risk and Systemic Change" http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2010-03-25.htm
which is not just about research libraries.
They discuss risk management and delineate many of the risks as:
"Many of the risks rated as high
What can we do to help? I'm in PA (not in your county - but still).
Nicole
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Kyle Hall wrote:
> I personally don't know. I'm not well versed in state library politics
> myself, but this is what my Director believes is coming down the road,
> and he's not happy abo
I personally don't know. I'm not well versed in state library politics
myself, but this is what my Director believes is coming down the road,
and he's not happy about it.
Kyle
http://www.kylehall.info
Information Technology
Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
On
