OCLC’s newly released WorldCat Local online catalog solution has quickly gathered a number of implementers. This new search and discovery service offers a number of advantages over traditional ILS catalogs. One Baptist library, the James P. Boyce Centennial Library at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, recently implemented a WorldCat Local instance to help them better [...]
Hello, ALABI gang! We are working on improving our Special Collections Web site, and I wondered if you had sites that you would recommend? Are there sites you don’t like? Why not? All suggestions are welcome.
For a couple of years, speculation has been rampant about the future of Google’s plans for it’s Google Books service. Due to Google’s involvement in litigation over the issue of copyright infringement, all bets have been off as to how the service would actually develop to ensure that authors and publishers get compensated for their [...]
Some of you may be interested to read Robert Darnton’s thoughts on libraries from the latest New York Review of Books. Dr. Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard.
Also, Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, blogged about Dr. Darnton’s article today.