I always find it interesting to see what search terms people use to find what they are looking for (or not looking for). On that note, I thought I would share a quick behind the scenes of keyword searching for my article, The Effect of Automation on Academic Library Staffing: A Discussion . There is no abstract or keywords attached to this title, so the results are truly from within the fulltext searching. These stats are generated through the Bpress statistics tool.

Early on I was on a committee that was charged with writing metadata standards using qualified Dublin Core (DC) for what would become the Institutional Repository for the Univ. System of Georgia Libraries.I worked on other parts of this initial project (Technical Oversight, Portal Design) too. Anyhow, I am particularly proud of how dedicated and diligent this group is in archiving institutional knowledge.

Just a quick update - so much going on professionally this Fall.

This is rather comical... sounds like an example of batch editing fail...

Nice little presentation about the OCLC Reclamation Project from Pierce College Library (a Voyager ILS library). What is the reclamation project? It syncs and sets holdings in OCLC..prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swfA Reclamation Project on Prezi

from an email via a listserv... Library of Congress Announces Modeling Initiative.... [snip] The Library of Congress has asked Zepheira to provide a model (or models) that can serve as a strong starting point for discussion, and an analysis of related initiatives underway that will be useful to this effort.  LC expects that the proposed model(s) will change and be further tuned based on valuable feedback from the community and a natural progression of requirements as they are addressed.

So, some of us on twitter have been talking about images and metadata (you know, one of my fave topics).

Some interesting thoughts sprinkled throughout the interview portion...----------OCLC now serves 72,035 libraries in 170 countries, with more than 260 million records—up from 39 million records in 1998. Its businesses have shifted radically, with an increasing proportion of its revenues derived from the library automation business rather than metadata services.Jordan’s tenure has not been without controversy. Some in the automation field charge that OCLC has an unfair competitive advantage as a nonprofit.

 This white paper written by Virginia Feher and I started out as a conversation about the changes brought about by automation within the UGA Libraries. Over the years, I have documented some of the changes in automation (including 5 migrations/conversions of the ILS - Library catalog!) through discussions with colleagues within the Libraries and outside. This article not only provides a good overview of the impact of automation on one technical services unit within a library, but also a brief history of that automation.