New Books

• Essentials of Young Adult Literature by Carl M. Tomlinson and Carol Lynch-Brown
• Librarian's Guide to Online Searching by Suzanne S. Bell

FYI: These two books were donated by a current FSU library school distance-learning student who just completed the related classes. The Professional Collection has gratefully accepted donations of gently used class texts from library school students. Before you buy your books, check the catalog to see if we can provide you with your school needs.

When in Rome, Part 2

Today I mentioned to our Director that Advanced Technology Libraries (April, 2007) has an article about SirsiDynix announcing the Rome platform. He asked whether there was an electronic version of the newsletter that could be posted. There is not an e-format available, but if you are accessing this blog from an LCLS computer, you can read a PDF version of the article from WilsonWeb by clicking this link.

FYI: The Professional Collection receives this newsletter each month.

New Book

• Classic Teenplots: A Booktalk Guide to Use with Readers Ages 12-18 by John T. Gillespie and Corinne J. Naden

SirsiDynix, Rome, and Unicorn

The April 2007 issue of Smart Libraries Newsletter details the 2005 consolidation of the Sirsi and Dynix Corporations into SirsiDynix, the largest company in the library-automation industry. This past January, Vista Equity Partners, a private-equity firm, acquired SirsiDynix. Days prior to the company's annual user conference, the president/CEO tendered his resignation. According to the ALA TechSource, 55 days after Vista took over SirsiDynix, it consolidated development efforts around a platform based on Unicorn. The code name for this product is "Rome." At Vista, all roads lead to Rome. For the complete article, click on the highlighted link above.

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New Book

• Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds Rev. ed. by Dawn Sova

FYI: This title has also been received by each regional for its reference collection.

FLA Conference 2007

Welcome back, conference attendees. If you have anything interesting to share, please feel free to post to this blog so that we can all benefit. I have added FLA's blog to our Blogs to Know section. I see that there are some notes from the conference as well as links to Flickr pictures and other goodies. Our tech pal, Stephen Abram, delivered the keynote speech," A Tech Forecast: Library 2.0 in the Real World," and I understand he had some technical difficulties with his presentation. His presentation is not online at FLA, but he delivered it at SLA Toronto West in January and I bet the content is the same. If you want to see it, here it is. If the content at FLA was different, please let me know.

Welcome Back

This blog is back and ready for action. The problems with Blogger are resolved and I am ready to post and receive comments.

Technical Difficulties

Due to some technical difficulties experienced with Blogger today, you may notice some minor adjustments to this blog. I hope to have everything back to normal soon.

Really Excellent Video

Last week I attended the SWFLN workshop "Weblog & RSS Bootcamp." The presenter showed us a fascinating video on YouTube.com by Kansas State University about technology and the evolution of the Web, the word, the world, and our place in all of that. Here is the video. As a bonus, here is a video that has been making the rounds. It is Medieval tech support.