https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35pSI-HOirM
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 26 July 2021 04:47 (two years ago) link
We switched to Alma/Primo back in 2015. We were using Voyager before
― treefell, Monday, 26 July 2021 10:00 (two years ago) link
Ex Libris have a seriously dominant stake in Academic libraries now. It will be interesting to see how things develop with their latest ownership group
― treefell, Monday, 26 July 2021 10:01 (two years ago) link
I'm at a weird special library where we STILL use Voyager. But our IT/Systems team is seriously understaffed and under-budgeted so a migration is probably not in the cards for a while. That'll be a real headache.
Voyager definitely shows its age (particularly its OPAC) but it still does the job decently well for us.
― OneSecondBefore, Monday, 26 July 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
Different topic, but Anne Helen Petersen has some thoughts about the way the MLIS has evolved into basically a mandatory degree if you want a living wage in libraries: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-masters-trap-part-two-069
It’s not a question of being a lower-paid librarian or a higher-paid librarian; it’s a question of being a staff member who doesn’t make enough to live on or figuring out a way to fund your MLIS. And then, even if you do make it into a program, there are too many people with master’s degrees and too few jobs for them.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 26 July 2021 13:38 (two years ago) link
in the end i bought two book hods (not correct term) from gresswell as advised by NickB q17 yrs ago and I still use them a lot, they do the job they are designed for!
sometimws ilx is good!
― mark s, Monday, 26 July 2021 13:42 (two years ago) link
ann helen petersen otm
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 26 July 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
the honest truth is that all graduate school and possibly all undergrad is a shakedown scam. if anyone asks me about graduate school (and no one does), i will tell them not to go, or to drop out if they're currently enrolled.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 26 July 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
I can see her point there. I've been happily able to live without an MLIS in the field -- and arguably I feel better all around because of it -- but then again my pay increases over time are the reasons why, thanks to both hanging in there and whatever quality and skill I have that's been recognized (including a full reclass in 2008 -- just before the recession, thankfully). And I've been working in it for almost a quarter of a century. Current entry level? *shakes head*
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 July 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link