Re: Library Technologies and Library School (was Commercial Vendors and Open Source Software)

From: Gregory Sigman <sigman_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:41:20 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>Where are the experts in cloud computing, in clustering, in
>large-scale meta data management, in reducio indexing, in smart
>spidering? Where are the geeks who enjoy semantic data modelling
>across silos? Or the ones who knows all there is to know about digital
>identity management? Things that's actually damn, seriouslly
>you'll-all-go-down-in-flames-without-it technologies? Where is it?
>Where's the direction you need to make to get to it? Where's your
>passionate people who understands all this and wants to see it
>through?

Working at Google and Amazon and being well-paid as they implement 
*very* rapid improvements and innovations. We're not likely to see 
that sort of agility in the library world, ever.

Whether or not that is a bad thing, I'll not address.

-- 
Greg Sigman, Senior Library Associate
Ohio University Music/Dance Library
sigman_at_ohio.edu
Received on Mon Sep 29 2008 - 15:05:42 EDT