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ZSR library feeds, learns from teachers for DigitalForsyth project

Many many thanks go out to the attendees of today’s workshop, LearnNC, East Carolina University, Forsyth County Public Library, and our own ZSR and Coy C. Carpenter libraries for the tremendously successful DigitalForsyth education workshop that was held today at … Continue reading

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Serendipity hill circa 1966

Serendipity hill circa 1966 Originally uploaded by wakelibrarian After over 40 years in a shoebox, another picture of the cabin surfaced today. This one shows the Fansler family with Craig pictured on the right in front of a newly sided … Continue reading

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Prepping for code4lib

It has been a busy morning of record loading, packing, and getting ready for a day of play before I head up for code4lib 2009 tomorrow.

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Forget a nextgen ILS – I want the chair

Mary Beth, Lauren, and I are at a two day workshop at Duke on the OLE project and business process modeling. More info on the experience of that workshop is coming but during the first break, we took a guided … Continue reading

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SPARC wrap-up

For me, this conference touched some big ideas including the implications of complex objects and data sets, the need to redefine what ‘publishing’ and information access means, and how to, on a large scale basis, create and deploy systems to … Continue reading

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SPARC Digital repositories in B-more

After an early morning drive to the airport and an unexpected re-route to Detroit (where yes. . .it is already winter), I wound up in Baltimore MD for a two day conference on digital repositories and scholarly publishing. Since I … Continue reading

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Funnest archive ever

Today after general sessions ended I headed north to Ohio State University to the Cartoon Research Library where a group of ASIS&T visitors was given a tour by the library’s founding curator Lucy Caswell. The archive contains over 250,000 original … Continue reading

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Blender(ed) Librarians view webcast

Today a whole group of zsr staff watched a Blended Librarianship conference. There was an interesting discussion about how libraries are changing. There was general agreement that the most interesting part of the discusion was a review of perspectives on … Continue reading

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OLE Project webcast

This afternoon, a group of Carptenter, PCL, and ZSR library staff gathered together to watch the first OLE Project webcast. The webcast discussed their scope, goals, and accomplishments to date. The project is still in its early stages but intends … Continue reading

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