On Friday, November 16, 2007, Simmons GSLIS hosted the Thompson ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture. The lecture, entitled “Babies and Bathwater: Reimagining Academic Libraries” featured Peter Hirtle and Dr. Sarah Thomas. Hirtle is the Intellectual Property Officer at Cornell University Libraries, and Thomas is Bodley’s Librarian and Director of University Library Services at Oxford University.…
Dr. Saad Eskander has served as the Director of the Iraqi National Library and Archives in Baghdad since 2003, keeping the library open against seemingly impossible odds. On Wednesday, November 7, 2007, he spoke at Simmons College about the history of the Iraqi National Library and the challenges of maintaining the countrys cultural heritage in…
Before becoming Associate Dean of Libraries for Collection and Technology Services, Dr. Prestamo served as Head of Digital Library Services and a reference librarian in the Library’s Science & Engineering Division at OSU. She holds a BM degree from Kent State University, an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a doctorate in Educational Technology…
David Lindahl is Director of Digital Library Initiatives for the River Campus Libraries. He has extensive experience in library-related digital research and design projects, and is responsible for advanced development of all aspects of library systems including the library catalog and the institutional repository at the University of Rochester. At Xerox PARC, where he was…
The University of Washington Libraries is participating in a pilot project with OCLC to test a new kind of library catalog, WorldCat Local. The goal is to provide a single search interface for local holdings, consortial holdings (in our case, the Orbis Cascade Alliance), and all other WorldCat libraries’ holdings. WorldCat Local also provides almost…
