Today on American University’s Public Radio (WAMU) Kojo Nnamdi Show, my favorite librarian, Pat Steele, is talking about the future of libraries. I am looking forward to listening to this show on my flight home – am glad that they make it available online –
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2009-09-29/tech-tuesday-future-libraries and via
rss for podcast – http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510025&uid=p1qe4e85742c986fdb81d2d38ffa0d5d53
and you can look for it on itunes – kojo nnamdi show.
Interesting piece from Dan Greenstein of UCOP on the Future of Libraries – http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/09/24/libraries – not all that surprising really.
Well after I saw this it made me want to kick my Lenovo x61 Tablet to the curb (even though it runs Windows 7 very smoothly).
I have a new piece in the current issue of Educause Review on building sustainable communities for academic open source software.
McDonald, Robert H. (2009). “Sustainable Communities for Software: Variations on a Theme.” Educause Review v 44(5) (September/October).
I just found out today that the Purdue University Libraries are joining ExLibris as a development partner for their new Unified Resource Management System. Glad to see another Indiana academic library moving forward with a strategic path.