Just to express some agreement ith Peter Brantley when he wrote in PB keynote at DLF Forum:

I do not think it is the place of libraries to build applications that directly permit the sciences’ domain consumption of content, but I do believe that libraries should develop services that allow our content riches to be discovered, manipulated, and recombined. I think, in other words, that we need to go up the stack, beyond the content, a bit more than we have in the past.

Without such services, how can we effectively interact with library materials, of which more and more are coming in digital form?

I wish I could attend the Educause Western Regional Conference happening the week after next in SF, whose speaker list includes a number of folks I know personally.

It’s great to see more library catalogs with APIs, such as those documented in REST output from Huddersfield’s catalogue.

Congratulations to Roy Tennant on his new position at OCLC:

With OCLC I have an incredible opportunity to be active on a broader stage. OCLC is big enough to put libraries on the Internet map in a way that none of us could achieve alone. Open WorldCat is but one example of many. I will be working as a Senior Program Manager with the RLG Programs unit of OCLC Research and Programs. I will report to Jim Michalko, who in turn reports to Lorcan Dempsey. I have met virtually all of the top management team at OCLC and I’ve been very impressed. They know where things are heading and they’re determined to position libraries in a way that will do us the most good.

It’s a big loss for CDL — but I’m looking forward to seeing Roy’s influence at work on the larger playing field of OCLC.

I unintentionally deleted all my cookies in Firefox Argh. The interface should have prompted me that I was deleting all my cookies and not just the one I had highlighted. and deleting cookies — should be prompted!

The Citizendium editorial council email list is archived on the web — e.g., The Cz-editcouncil April 2007 Archive by thread

Any reason to use Shelfari instead of LibraryThing?