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.

So, a few of us were discussing via various forms of social media, IM'ing - the works - the state of librarianship (post migraine, my brain makes random connections and kind of scattered --  a poor time for coding but a great time for absorbing ideas):

• Libraries are dreadfully underfunded and understaffed to the point where others are starting to try to do our work (FCC digital literacy corps, volunteers, etc.) 
• Innovation is the exception, rather than the norm.

Computer Sci is no. 2 for best; LIS is no. 1 for worst. Something is wrong there... ---The Best and Worst Master's Degrees for Jobs [Forbes](Hint: LIS is not in the "best" list... )http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2012/06/08/the-best-and-wors…

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.

Discovery Tool Implementation and SelectionMay 15-16, 2012Hosted by Nara Newcomer and Bill WalshPlease join us for an e-forum discussion.

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.

----------------Unable to attend another conference because you’re understaffed? Are you miles (and miles) away from another academic library? Do you count downloading apps to your smartphone as professional development?

The Technical Services Interest Group is seeking catalogers from public, academic, and special libraries to participate in the Cataloging Roundtable at COMO 2012 (October 3-5, 2012 in Macon). The purpose of the Cataloging Roundtable is to discuss the best and latest developments in cataloging and bibliographic control, as well as, bring together all those interested in cataloging and classification.