New World of Librarianship article:
I just added an interesting list of new words to my vocabulary:
techno-lust, techno-worship, digital natives, technohustle, knowledge spa ... - it's a brave new world, all right! Two things are essential in wading through this overwhelming avalanche of technological advances: 1) a focus on our own customers and what they want and need, and 2) continuous designated staff time to develop local experts that other staff can turn to.
Better Bibliographic Services article:
Single metadata creation is definitely the way to go for sharing records among publishers, vendors, and libraries - there is way to much duplication of effort going on right now. WorldCat is a great start for sharing bibliographic records among libraries; it needs to be developed further to make downloading each other's records easier and more efficient.
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