Home Attitude Is Here: Layman’s Guide to Home Automation
Home Attitude is here. The book went live on Amazon Tuesday night. The Kindle version will be available on or before November 27. It seems like a long time to make the conversion, but there are a lot of files, detailed steps, and reviews involved. Now comes the hard part, marketing. Step 1 was to […]
Things Change
Graduating from engineering school and joining IBM were just two things of thousands which happened 50 years ago. Another was the beginning of OCLC. Over the decades the name of the organization has changed a number of times. Like IBM, Apple, and many other companies, the full original name has changed to something simpler and […]
WorldCat – The World’s Largest Library Database
This week 45 years ago, Ohio University entered library catalog information about 133 books into an IBM mainframe database. This was the beginning of an online database about books. During the four and a half decades, librarians around the world have contributed to the database, called WordlCat, and managed by OCLC, a nonprofit, library cooperative based in […]
WorldCat – Two Billion and Growing
It is a privilege to be able to participate and contribute to various boards. Board service is a way to learn new things, meet interesting people, and gain new perspectives. That has certainly been the case since I joined the board of OCLC in 2009. Fifteen years ago some pundits — myself not included — were saying that libraries […]
WorldCat
It is a privilege to be able to participate and contribute to various boards. It is also a way to learn new things, meet interesting people, and gain new perspectives. That has certainly been the case since I joined the board of OCLC. Fifteen years ago some pundits — myself not included — were saying that libraries were […]
