Read most of the entries. Really enjoyed them; felt like a library student again. Really loved what John J. Riener says about metadata in "To better bibliographic services".
Web based applications will be revolutionary for libraries in the future - and it looks like they already are for some. I was thinking about managing non-book material - material that is often neglected by book and reference libraries. Uncatalogued material is often only listed in contents lists. Zoho writer could be good here, so the word documents can be added as a link to a catalogue record. The SLV is pretty much committed to EAD for managing and presenting this sort of material, which I suppose is better in terms of searchability, speed and security. EAD is expensive because its adoption requires lots of backroom work with the collections, software commitments, and then IT support for its uploading, so it would not be feasible for a smaller library with small non-book collections. But Zoho writer could be used to attach lists of posters, pictures, local history files, and toys (not normally given individual records in local libraries) to library group catalogue records. And very doable by your garden variety librarian.
Next post is my last. I will end with a whimper.
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