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― NickB (NickB), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link
Wait... suss3x.ac.uk. Do you work in the Suss3x library Nick?
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago) link
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― jel -- (jel), Monday, 12 January 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link
We just got one of these:http://www.gresswell.com/webprd_gress/product_block/D11/000002110.jpg
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 12 January 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/ISBN.html
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
"holy shit!It's like the monks compliing the billion names of buddha or whateverIt's Armageddon!"
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― youn, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
(xpost)
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
This was my thought. Sorta like new area codes post-cell phone population explosion.
I really don't deal much with ISBNs at all unless I'm sending in an order to our acquisitions department, so the change will be a bit abstract.
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Imagine the OCLC upgrades...jesus.
It's not like it was for Y2K I don't think. Most of our newer systems are written in Java/Oracle and the fix is pretty simple. I don't know how many cobol (or whatever) systems still exist. (Around here, I mean.) The bigger institutions hopefully have switched to new technology and the smaller ones hopefully never installed much in the first place.
That's my guess.
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― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:38 (nineteen 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