Comments on: My non-LITA top tech trends

By: Panlibus » Blog Archive » Terry Reese shares his Top Tech Trends on Talking with Talis

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:53:08 +0000

[...] could not easily get in to the LITA Top Tech Trends session at ALA Midwinter, so he drafted his own non-LITA Top Tech Trends and posted them on his blog Terry’s [...]

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Talking with Talis | Terry’s Worklog — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:31:31 +0000

[...] response to my top tech trends post, Richard Wallis had asked if I would be willing to expand my thoughts in their Talking with Talis [...]

By: Administrator

Administrator — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:22:09 +0000

Well, both a business model to make it successful and a change in attitude that allows organizations to give up their local catalogs for a consortial model. I wonder if this is part of the reason why most of this movement has been in the public library space?

–TR

By: Roger Hiles

Roger Hiles — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:12:08 +0000

I think you’re right about hosted services, but I think that they will be a leading reason people move to open source ILSs. Look at centrally hosted statewide and provincewide adoptions of Evergreen among public libraries in Georgia, British Columbia, and it looks like Indiana and Michigan as well. Georgia’s 85% cost savings over local installs is opening a lot of doors. I don’t think open source software in libraries is a fad, it’s just been waiting for the right business model– and I think this may be it.

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Is IT becoming too disposable? | Terry’s Worklog — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:29:38 +0000

[...] is something that came up when I was expanding my thoughts from one of my “non-lita tech trends” earlier this morning and the more I’ve thought about it, the more I’m finding it [...]

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:34:28 +0000

Bryan,

Beats me. I was under the impression that OCLC wasn’t making money from the vendors that are adding “cataloging” to the database. And if anything, they are taking a big hit from catalogers who are finding the records being loaded to be poor. In fact, on AutoCat not to long ago, there was a heated discussion about many libraries simply ignoring these records and creating duplicate originals. A kindof open revolt by libraries so that they can keep getting their credits for original record creation.

–TR

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:42:56 +0000

OCLC seems to be adding new so-called cataloging partners every day, so perhaps OCLC will make their money based more on the contributions from these partners rather than member libraries.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:45:22 +0000

Seems to me that there is a happy medium to be had. Sony for example makes an ultraportable that is expandable up to 1 GB of RAM with Expandable RAM for ~$600. Additionally, Dell, Toshiba, etc. they too provide ultraportable notebooks in the 600-800 dollar range if you purchase without software. All one needs to do is build themselves a good image (linux or windows) and you have access to good, cheap ultra portable devices. However, you have to remember that you get what you pay for. When you consider toc of ownership for these low cost portables, I’m not sure that replacement costs won’t even out the cost (since these will essentially be throw away machines).

–TR

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:06:21 +0000

Terry,

I’m not sure what is going to happen with ultra light PCs. I haven’t had a chance to play with one real time. The reviews look good and they seem to have the power to suit some people’s needs. The reason I brought them up for library loaning is two fold: 1. cost – loaner PC get beat up big time and need to be replaced 2. what we loan is overkill for what the students are doing (at least based on the last survey of students I saw but can’t find). We don’t want to loan stuff that is cheap looking and not functional. But not having enough laptops to loan because they are out of commission due to use/abuse and we can’t afford to replace them frequently enough seems poor service to me as well.