Stick this in Your Bun
May 9th, 2002Forgive the silence. Been working on a few projects including an article on web standards for Library Journal’s netConnect spring supplement. Here is a little teaser. I did a little digging to find out why OCLC belongs to World Wide Consortium.
OCLC’s membership is based on the insightful assumption that it is essential for the library community to play a role in the development and governance of web standards. Libraries once had the luxury of having control over our own standards such as the MARC record, Anglo American Cataloging Rues, the Z39.50 protocol. But now we find ourselves sharing a technological world with very different kinds of businesses with very different kinds of objectives. We need to maintain a position where we can promote our own perspectives and values. It’s about stewardship, baby, but without hair buns.
Speaking of hair buns, get your own roguelibrarian.com pencils. These bad boys are sleek green number two pencils with, "Roguelibrarian.com / Stick this in your bun" stamped right on ‘em in a nice canary yellow. I ordered five thousand. Send me an email, and we’ll work out the self-addressed-stamped-envelope stuff.
Here is a little article about where I work, and the stressfest that you can find at a public library.