Category: Standards Schmandards
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Where is the outrage?
For a couple of months this year, the library world was aflame with rage at the proposed OCLC licensing policy regarding bibliographic records. It was a justifiable complaint, although I basically stayed out of it: it just didn’t affect me very much. After much gnashing of teeth, petitions, open letters from consortia, etc. OCLC eventually…
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Mixed Feelings
I cannot perceive a day that I might charge for a webinar about Jangle. I expect that that day will never come. Still, it pains me to see a NISO Webinar on Interoperability: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/interop09 It pains me for a couple of reasons — a hundred bucks for a webinar? Come on, NISO, get over yourself.…