What are "Stacks delivery systems"?
--- On Wed, 9/24/08, Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen_at_GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> From: Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen_at_GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Library Technologies and Library School (was Commercial Vendors and Open Source Software)
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 2:57 PM
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 20:48, Kevin M Kidd
> <kiddk_at_bc.edu> wrote:
> > I think you simplify the issue,
>
> What, on a mailing-list on the internet? Never!
>
> > but you are right to say that many librarians feel
> that
> > there are no alternatives to specialized systems. This
> > is the very reason that we need IT education that goes
> > hand in hand with library education.
>
> May I also go as far as to suggest that you get your IT
> education
> *not* from library school?
>
> > We need some understanding of the alternatives -
> > indeed, some sense of the myriad possibilities current
> > technology provides - among trained librarians...
>
> There's tons of stuff you do at the library which the
> outside world
> also do, including card-readers, inventory systems,
> shelf-life
> systems, borrowing systems, fancy indexers and spiders, and
> on and on.
> The biggest problem with really adopting outside
> "help" like this is
> because when the libraries look for them, they look for
> systems that
> support ;
> * z39.50
> * MARC
> * Patron management system
> * Stacks delivery systems
> * and so on ...
>
>
> Alex
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Received on Wed Sep 24 2008 - 13:28:59 EDT