Author Archives: Erik

DPLA Plenary Session – Afternoon

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Erik

The afternoon started with beta-sprint presentations showing off system proof-of-concept applications. CLIR showed a system that aggregated data from publicly supported research projects from IMLS. The beta sprint projects are located at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dpla/ and show off ways of aggregating and … Continue reading →

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Digital Public Library of America Plenary Session – Morning

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Erik

Today I am at the Plenary meting of the Digital Public Library of America. The day-long session is focusing on exploring new collaborative ways in which libraries can contribute to the singular goal of, as one person said “the wal-mart … Continue reading →

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LBSC 670 Guest Speaker – Carolyn McCallum

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Erik

In Class this week we had Carolyn McCallum (Wake Forest University – Go Deacs!) attend as a virtual guest lecturer. Carolyn talked about the profession of cataloging and took the class through the process of creating original cataloging records including … Continue reading →

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2011 ASIS&T

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Erik

ASIS&T for me was punctuated with some interesting talks, enjoyment in seeing my friends from UNC & USC again and a few tourist moments in New Orleans. The most illuminating talk I attended was by by Steve Kelling who talked … Continue reading →

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“Why libraries virtualize” – MCLS

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Erik

Today I had the opportunity to talk at the Midwest Collaborative Library Service annual meeting. The topic was cloud computing and I took the time to lay out some of the initial data from my survey on library adoption of … Continue reading →

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