What’s new at PLN: Future catalogs, discovery layers, Facebook or face time
Here’s this week’s post at PLN Highlights. Remember: If you’re a present or future library leader–manager, thought leader, leading voice, what have you–you really should join the PALINET Leadership Network (and subscribe to PLN Highlights).
Some of the articles just added to the PALINET Leadership Network (PLN):
- Future catalogs: food for thought - What could a “catalog” do? Eric Lease Morgan offers an extended and challenging set of visions in this essay.
- Separating the discovery layer from the ILS - In a related article, John Houser discusses the desire to provide unique local interfaces for a library’s integrated library system–and the simultaneous desire of many institutions to share metadata. Separating layers might serve both desires.
- Face time or Facebook? - Jeff Scott notes the uses of technology to help bring people through the library doors–and the importance of face-to-face service once they’re in the library, to make them loyal patrons and supporters.
You’ll also find updates to the extensive set of Kindle and ebook reader notes, a new Open source category to gather the growing set of articles on open source, and more links to take you from one article to related articles.
Remember–your views and contributions are always welcome, and really essential to making PLN a true participatory resource for today’s and tomorrow’s library leaders. Add your comments on the Talk page attached to every article (or, if that’s appropriate, directly to the article), add feedback on the feedback pages for PLN as a whole and for each major category, start new Forum topics. If you have something you think may be suitable for an article and you aren’t ready to deal with MediaWiki markup, send it to me (crawford at palinet.org or waltcrawford at gmail.com) and I’ll take care of it.
And, of course, if you’re not yet a PLN member, sign up now–it’s fast and free. Do remember to click on the link in the email following your signup!
