I was at the meeting initiated by the Digital Library Federation that resulted in this post. All of the vendors that met the DLF request to comment on the ILS Discovery Initiative (ILS-DI) proposal said basically the same thing, Innovative Interfaces included: interesting project, lots of detail to be worked out, etc. Of the three […]
Surely you all remember the P.D. Eastman book Are You My Mother? In it a baby bird wanders around asking all types of animals if they are his mother. Well that’s somewhat how I’ve felt over the past few years as I’ve tried to identify who the real customer is for the OPAC.
The […]
There’s a fascinating article that just appeared in the New York Times about Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, the man who made a sound recording (of a woman singing) that predates Edison’s.
Since preservation is an obsession of librarians, Scott’s biography is interesting:
Scott is in many ways an unlikely hero of recorded sound. Born in Paris in […]
Express Lane is Innovative’s self-check solution that’s so much more than just self-checkout! This podcast interview with me provides an overview of the features and capabilities that Express Lane provides. More broadly we’re talking about “Patron Self-Service within Library Walls.”
Come see Express Lane work, this week, at PLA 2008 (booth #1201).