Metadata Madness
Over the last year my library has been working on implementing a discovery product for our community hospitals’ website and it has been quite an adventure.
We wanted to create a better website to help unlock the siloed information that our library subscribes to. Library users have no clue that Hurst’s the Heart, is only available electronically via McGraw Hill. They could check the catalog, but they don’t. They go on to the library website and type the title in the search box. Now, as librarians, we know that unless you have a discovery system for that search box, the results come from the content on ...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - November 4, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Hot Financial Mess
On July 14th my fellow librarians and I spoke on the webinar, Facilities and Personnel Management While Your Library is Closed, Open, Reopening or Somewhere In-Between. In that webinar one of the things I briefly touched up on was library budget and the impact from covid-19.
Well, brace yourselves medical librarians and library vendors, because 2020 and 2021 are going to be a hot mess financially. So when we say we have no money, please know it is worse that the library has no money. We have no money means our funding agency, our institution and/or state literally has no money.
The only way I can easily discuss it ...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - August 10, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Hot Financial Mess
On July 14th me and my fellow librarians spoke on the webinar, Facilities and Personnel Management While Your Library is Closed, Open, Reopening or Somewhere In-Between. In that webinar one of the things I briefly touched up on was library budget and the impact from covid-19.
Well, brace yourselves medical librarians and library vendors, because 2020 and 2021 are going to be a hot mess financially. So when we say we have no money, please know it is worse that the library has no money. We have no money means our funding agency, our institution and/or state literally has no money.
The only way I can easily discuss it...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - August 10, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Things I ’ ve Learned Managing a Library During this Crisis
First I want to recommend Zach Osborne’s post “Hospital Librarianship during the COVID-19 Pandemic” as a really good description of what it is like right now as a hospital librarian. I couldn’t have expressed it better.
I also want to share some of the things I have learned during this time. I think the easiest way is to just do a list.
Some key library infrastructure systems do NOT work from home. We found both our ILS (Innovative Interfaces) and Illiad do not allow for us to do back office work (set up accounts, catalog, order articles, etc.) when we aren’t on our institution’s ...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - April 21, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Things I ’ve Learned Managing a Library During this Crisis
First I want to recommend Zach Osborne’s post “Hospital Librarianship during the COVID-19 Pandemic” as a really good description of what it is like right now as a hospital librarian. I couldn’t have expressed it better.
I also want to share some of the things I have learned during this time. I think the easiest way is to just do a list.
Some key library infrastructure systems do NOT work from home. We found both our ILS (Innovative Interfaces) and Illiad do not allow for us to do back office work (set up accounts, catalog, order articles, etc.) when we aren’t on our institution’s ...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - April 21, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Working From Home During a Pandemic
It has been a while since I have last posted. My blog had been hosted on LISHost and after many years Blake decided to move on so I had to find a new host. I transferred my blog to the new hosts, Libchalk, at the end of February. Then in March the coronavirus hit and the time to blog disappeared.
I decided my first post back would be a little bit about what we are doing at my library and a totally shameless plug for MLA’s “Join the Covid-19 Conversation: Managing Remote Workers and Work” hosted by Ellen Aaronson, AHIP, Mayo Clinic Libraries, and yours truly on Tuesday 4/14/20 1:00pm eastern time.
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Source: The Krafty Librarian - April 17, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Site Changes Test Post
I am making some changes to my site. So this is just my test post as I checking to see everything is going well. Stay tuned. (Source: The Krafty Librarian)
Source: The Krafty Librarian - March 6, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The ILS and the Future Needs of Libraries
ALL current ILS products suck.
There are several reasons why they suck, but the bottom line is that they fail to serve the modern needs of library which have drastically evolved.
OhioLINK and Ithaka S+R just released the white paper, “It’s Not What Libraries Hold; It’s Who Libraries Serve: Seeking a User-Centered Future for Academic Libraries” detailing the needs of libraries for systems going forward. *note* I served on the committee that helped formulate this paper.
Please note, we originally struggled with using the word ILS. Because the ILS we need now and in the future cannot be the ILS as w...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - January 24, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The ILS and the Future Needs of Libraries
ALL current ILS products suck.
There are several reasons why they suck, but the bottom line is that they fail to serve the modern needs of library which have drastically evolved.
OhioLINK and Ithaka S+R just released the white paper, “It’s Not What Libraries Hold; It’s Who Libraries Serve: Seeking a User-Centered Future for Academic Libraries” detailing the needs of libraries for systems going forward. *note* I served on the committee that helped formulate this paper.
Please note, we originally struggled with using the word ILS. Because the ILS we need now and in the future cannot be the ILS as w...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - January 24, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Hospital Acquistions: Problem with Libraries
According to Modern Healthcare, “Hospital megamergers continue to drive near-historic M&A activity,” the actual number of hospital mergers and acquisitions have been similar to 2018 and the numbers seem to be pretty consistent from when the merger and acquisitions “trend” hit in 2010. What is different according to the article is the amount of revenue that is part of the process. The money involved was “nearly four times higher in the second quarter of 2019 compared with the prior-year period.” No longer content with serving a specific locale (city, county, etc.) hospital systems are...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - December 5, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
