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GSLIS publications digitized

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I was excited to find out that some important publications from UIUC GSLIS are now digitized and available in UIUC’s institutional repository, IDEALS. These include:

Allerton Park Institute Proceedings(1954-1997)
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1963-1995)
Occasional Papers (1949-2004)

These are highly important publications in terms of recent library history, and it is great that they are now readily available like this. I know that the Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing in particular discussed important, cutting edge development around MARC and early integrated library systems (including NOTIS from Northwestern University Library and LDMS from The University of Chicago Library), and that you can’t get a complete picture of library automation history without reading papers presented there. Take a look at http://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/154.

(Found out via message from Sue Searing, LIS librarian, to GSLIS faculty earlier today. )

EndUser 2006 photos and other impressions [Updated]

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Yesterday I managed to take some photos at EndUser 2006. Here is a photo set on Flickr. Lots of friends and acquaintences were there and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing them. I also got to meet a few new folks including one who introduced himself to me as someone who enjoys reading this blog. (It’s kind of nice but also odd when this happens.) I spent some time talking to Ross Singer and enjoyed our conversation about the state of ILS vendors and relations with their library partners. Some of the Library 2.0 oriented sessions were extremely popular with standing room only as well as an overflow into the hallway outside. I particularly appreciated meeting up with my old classmate, Amanda Xu. We were in library school at UIUC together and were in many of the same classes.

The evening finished up with a nice customer reception. I was able to spend more time talking to friends such as Gaele Gillespie from the University of Kansas, Kevin Randall from Northwestern University, Beth Holley from the University of Alabama, and Kat McGrath from the University of British Columbia. [It was also great to meet up with Wayne Jones, from Queen's University, under whose editorial direction I am currently working as part of a group of people writing about the management of e-journals for a book to be published by Haworth Press.] NASIG was well represented! All in all it was an eventful day.