Lyrasis Podcasts

Roy Tennant is Senior Program Officer for OCLC Research. He is the owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990. He is a prolific writer and speaker. In 2003, he received the American Library association’s LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for Continuing Education.

I spoke to Roy just after he gave the keynote address at the PALINET Annual Conference in October.

 

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This past September, I had the chance to meet with Bob Kieft, the General Editor of the American Library Association’s Guide to Reference.  Formerly known as the Guide to Reference Books, this resource is now online, published exclusively in an electronic format.  In the course of the interview, Bob Kieft shares his many insights into how the new Guide fits into today’s reference work and how it might be used once again as part of the curriculum at library schools.

At the time of the interview, Kieft was the Director of College Information Resources at Haverford College in Pennsylvania.  He is now serving in his new roll as College Librarian at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.

ALA’s Guide to Reference is available for subscription through PALINET.  To find out more, click here.

 

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This podcast contains the third of three interviews I’ve recorded to document the VuFind implementation at Villanova University. The others have been posted previously. This time I spoke with four librarians from the staff of Falvey Memorial Library: David Burke, a metadata librarian, Jacqueline Mirabile from the research support team, Barbara Quintiliano, an instructional services librarian and one of the research assistance librarians, and Linda Hauck, a research support librarian from the business school. I spoke to them in early September, shortly after the VuFind system went live at Villanova.

 

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Joe Lucia is University Librarian and director of the Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova University. He is an outspoken advocate for open source software and collaborative development within the library community. He hired Andrew Nagy and Chris Barr at Villanova, and has guided and presided over the development of the VuFind open source discovery software. Joe is also President of the PALINET Board, and Vice-President / President Elect of PALCI, the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium.

I spoke to Joe twice about the VuFind project, the first time in May of 2008, just after VuFind was released for public beta test at Villanova, the second time in September 2008, just after VuFind went into production at the University.

This is the second of three interviews I recorded to document the VuFind implementation at Villanova University. The others are also available as podcasts.

 

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On Saturday, June 28, 2008, at ALA Annual, I did a live interview of Joshua Ferraro, CEO of LibLime, in a session sponsored by the LITA Open Source Software Interest Group entitled “Building and Supporting Koha, an Open Source ILS.”  The complete recording of the session, including about 20 minutes of questions from the audience is attached to this post.

 

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Andrew Nagy is the developer and Chris Barr is the user interface designer for Villanova University’s VuFind system. VuFind is an open source discovery tool designed to sit on top of an integrated library system and replace the public catalog interface. VuFind has been quickly adopted by some members of the library community because of its clean and simple look and feel, strong feature set, and ease of modification. The National Library of Australia has already gone live with its implementation of the software, despite the fact that the 1.0 release of VuFind is not yet available.

I spoke Andrew and Chris at Villanova University during the first of a series of interviews with staff there pertaining to their VuFind implementation.

In the interest of proper disclosure, I must mention that PALINET, my employer, has entered into an agreement with Villanova to provide VuFind support services to PALINET member libraries in the near future.

This is the first of three interviews I recorded to document the VuFind implementation at Villanova University. The others are also available as podcasts.

 

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In this continuation of my conversation with Tim Spalding of LibraryThing, we talked about LibraryThing for Libraries, achieving a critical mass of tags, and improving discovery in the library catalog.

 

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When Tim Spalding created LibraryThing, he had no idea what it would become. He just wanted to catalog his personal library and share it with a few friends. But LibraryThing has exploded into more than 390,000 members, who have cataloged nearly 26 million books. This rapid growth is probably because LibraryThing is more than a big catalog; it is a social software site that feeds our mania for books, our joy in talking about authors and stories, and our need to share with others.

In Part 1 of our conversation, we talked about LibraryThing generally and what you can do with it. In Part 2 of our conversation, we talked about LibraryThing for Libraries, achieving a critical mass of tags, and improving discovery in the library catalog.

 

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Don Hamparian is Manager of the WorldCat Grid Services Portfolio at OCLC. He has been in the IT and Software Development world for 25 years, starting with CDC mainframe programming. Since joining OCLC eight years ago, he has been working in product management, architecture standardization, and IT roles.

David Walker is Library Web Services manager for The California State University. His work focuses principally on interface design and system integration, particularly for library catalogs, metasearch systems, and link resolvers.

Don and Dave gave presentations at Code4Lib 2008 on the new WorldCat API. This new web service will allow library software developers to run searches and pull holdings information from the WorldCat database–from within their own local applications.

 

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Joshua Ferraro is CEO of LibLime. His company offers installation, setup, data migration, and custom programming services for libraries implementing the Koha open source integrated library system. Josh founded LibLime in 2005, and already has 17 employees over 200 customers. He is an active contributor to the Koha project and release manager for Koha Version 3, the alpha release of which came out in January. We talked about Koha 3 at the Code4Lib conference in Portland Oregon.

 

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