Ran across this slide presentation entitled Future Tech Trends for Public Libraries by Sarah Houghton. Covers some very interesting ground concerning the future of library provided computers and OPACS.
Sarah Houghton is the e-Services Librarian for Marin County Free Library, President of the California Library Association’s Information Technology Section, serves on LITA’s Top […]
Looking for new things to blog I typed “Meadville” in the Google news web page and found an interesting article about Channellock in the Mid County Chronicle in Nederland, Texas.
Here is the article.
When I started my library career, way back in the eighties, the hardest working books in the library where the encyclopedias. Even in a small library the encyclopedias would become discolored through use and would be replaced every year or so. The publishers would update the books using dozens of editors and hundreds […]
In the library world OPAC stand for On-line Patron Access Catalog, which is a fancy term for computerized card catalog. MPL will be updating our OPAC in the next few months and I have been doing some research on the topic. One of the more interesting article I found was How OPACs Suck […]
When we started our new web site the idea was that certain people, me included, would write and blog about our favorite articles. Since I am the Director of the library, I thought I would blog about current trends and ideas in the library universe. Obviously what I planned to do has not […]
John J. Brice, III
Executive Director
Meadville Public Library