Koha, the free Open Source library system just released their 2.0 version complete with a fully templated web interface and full integration with MARC. Take a test drive and tell me it isn’t better looking and easier to use than whatever you are currently overpaying your vendors for. [catalogablog]
Month: March 2004
IM me: iamthebestartist
Aaron talks some more about good and bad parts to using IM at the library. I think I like using IM [even for work stuff] for some of the reasons other people hate it: I can carry on multiple conversations at once, I can make communication even shorter [no “Hi, this is Jessamyn, how are you…” and I have both my ears free. The phone seems to use up talking and listening for me, whereas reading and typing seem like more of the same input/output mechanism.
25,000 library cards about Napoleon
Stanley Kubrick’s freaky library and card files.
design your own librarian, win valuable prizes
The New Jersey Library Association — you know, the ones who brought you Super Librarian — are now having a design your own librarian contest [pdf], a contest I intend to try to win! [thanks carol]
library school student body presidents with blogs
U of Toronto’s library school’s student council president has a blog. I happen to know that the library school president at Simmons does too.