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(And we don't wanna think up separate titles for each of these posts ...) We had an enjoyable time not attending ALA this past week. Though we did do a presentation for the Council on Library/Media Technicians, which seems to have gotten hosed by ALA having a conference-within-a-conference for support staff. And we went out with Chatty/NextGen/LibraryUnderground folks Friday evening (BadAss Librarian has pics). We also spent around 45 minutes in the exhibits hall on Sunday and then went to the blogger party hosted by OCLC. Pics here -- scroll down to June 26 -- and we contributed to the party post on It's All Good. Joe later wrote "Blogger Party" song lyrics, though you'd think he would've done a takeoff on Rick Nelson instead of the Beach Boys. It was great to see some folks again, to meet people we'd only exchanged email with, as well as some bloggers we've merely read or never heard of. OCLC's hospitality didn't prevent us from bitching about a problem OCLC is causing us at work, though. Does anyone really believe that SirsiDynix is "a merger of equals"? We had a good laugh about that line from the press release with someone at the Sirsi booth. If libraries want to avoid "assrapage of the unlubed kind" (thanx again, BadAss), we all really-really need to get working on an open-source ILS that can handle large consortia. Additional "Superman is a dick" covers -- and much, much more -- at superdickery.com. We found out from librarianscott's LISNews journal that we're way above ALA in a Google search for "librarian." Which is as it ought to be.
posted by Brian @ 20:42
