Bob McQuillan remembers working in an academic library many years ago when the brand new computer terminal blinked its clumsy green cursor for the first time. The digitization of the analog library world had slowly begun, and so had some exciting new technologies that led him over the next two decades into senior product management and marketing roles at various information technology and computer graphics companies in his native San Francisco Bay Area. At one point he took a bird’s eye view to share his industry insights as an executive editor and analyst for Penton Media covering digital media technologies. His favorite role by far is working with eProducts at Innovative Interfaces where he is able to leverage his passions for libraries, media and technology to help customers build a better digital library.
This week marks the 24th Annual Conference of the North American Serials Group (NASIG) (June 3-7, 2009 in Asheville, North Carolina). There have been quite a few changes in the serials industry since this conference first convened nearly a quarter century ago, including the rise of digital content filling an information pipeline once traditionally dominated […]
Email, electronic folders, proprietary databases and even Post-it notes…these are some of the tools identified in a recent round-table discussion with Janet Crum of Oregon Health Sciences University, Diane Grover of University of Washington and Rae Ann Stahl of San Jose State University when describing how their libraries used to track and manage their growing […]
Since joining Innovative as Senior Product Manager for eProducts back in March 2008, I have had opportunities to speak with Millennium customers about the implementation process for our Electronic Resource Management product. My colleague Spenser Thompson recently invited me to sit down with him and record this podcast. It covers how Innovative’s implementation team […]