Year: 2010
UC HathiTrust Update
By Heather Christenson, CDL Mass Digitization Project Manager and HathiTrust Project Manager While some may have been enjoying the lazy days of summer, the HathiTrust has experienced a whirlwind of activity and growth. UC continues to make great contributions! We […]
Beyond Coffee: 9 Ways to Survive Monday Morning
You like your job but even so, Monday morning can arrive as a bit of a shock to the system. You sprint into the weekend, have a fun if exhausting time, and try not to think about the work-week ahead. You […]
Listening: a competitive advantage
I was on a conference call recently when a question came up as to how a service offered by a consortium of libraries and research institutions might compete with a similar one offered by the private sector. We had a […]
Talking with Strangers: 3 Tips on Making the Most of Your Conversations
“In a single week, we may meet more people than our medieval ancestors did in their entire lives. Yet in contemporary American culture, we have little or no training for all this interaction.” So, how do you avoid feeling like […]
Privacy matters
The [http://www.handheldlibrarian.org/program-2] conference held July 28 & 29 touched on privacy issues repeatedly, as might be expected for a conference dealing with topics such as geolocation and “augmented reality.” Lisa Carlucci Thomas in her keynote on “Risk, Reality, & the […]
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Enhancements – August 2010
Several enhancements appear in the Next Generation Melvyl (NGM) Pilot as a result of OCLC’s Sunday, August 8, 2010 install. The improvements include the following: Some OCLC databases will no longer require authentication: Offsite patrons will no longer need to […]
SCP record distribution update (August 2010)
No SCP updates will be posted for August 16, 2010. For questions, please contact Adolfo Tarango at: atarango@ucsd.edu
Making Change Happen: Smart Team Building
Leaders are told that bringing people together as a “team” is the ultimate means to achieve peak performance. So we feverishly plan team events, team brainstorming, team retreats, team training, team potlucks, team sweatshirts, and every other team-building thing we […]
SCP Distribution Statistics for August 2010
The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Distribution Statistics for August 2010 are now available at: http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/scp/updates/scpstats2011.html#aug2010
Update on the DataCite Metadata Working Group
It’s about time for a check-in on my experiences with the DataCite Metadata Working Group. I introduced this intrepid band a couple of months ago when we met face-to-face in Hannover, Germany. Since then, of course, we’ve dispersed to our […]