Roy Tennant
![]() Roy Tennant (roy_tennant@oclc.org) is Senior Program Manager for OCLC Programs and Research in Mountain View, CA. He is author of XML for Libraries and Managing the Digital Library. User Stats
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Neither Black Nor White, but SurvivalNovember 3, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (3) Meredith uses her usual level-headedness to view some of the recent controversies of libraryland, where some have attempted to paint some controversial issues as either black or white. They are neither. Go read it, I'll wait. Let's be clear -- Libraries are in some very trying times. We are being assailed from...Read More Industries: News & Features Recent Posts
The Desire for Digital ObsolescenceOctober 30, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1) So imagine my surprise when someone whose opinions actually matter happened to agree with me. He was interviewed on NPR's hit show "Talk of the Nation," no less. It turns out that this Viktor Mayer-Schonberger has even written a book on the topic: Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in t...Read More Industries: News & Features Recent Posts
Get Thee to Library 101!October 28, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) After several months of hard work and preparation, the Library 101 video and web site debuted today to a roomful of rapt and engaged librarians at the Internet Librarian Conference. Spawned by the creative forces of Michael Porter and David Lee King of "Hi-Fi Sci-Fi Library" fame, this project combines a variety of techniques and technologies to get across the important message that libraries must both change a great deal and also get back to our root...Read More
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The Next-Gen Repository: Part IIOctober 27, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) In a post last week, I introduced the eScholarship redesign and refocus of mission on the publishing needs of faculty, with repository capture being a side benefit. With this second part, I seek to lift the hood of the technical infrastructure, which I'm doing with the help of Lisa Schiff of the technical team that worked for two years on this major refactoring of eScholarship. As Lisa said in part in an email to the Code4Lib and XML4Lib mailing lists:Some h...Read More Industries: News & Features Recent Posts
The Next-Gen Repository: Part IOctober 21, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2) This week, in honor of Open Access Week, the California Digital Library released a complete redesign of the eScholarship Repository. But what at first glance appears to be a gloss on one of the earliest and most successful institutional repositories is, in fact, much more. It is a major refocus of mission and goals toward the publishing needs of faculty, with the requisite changes in both messaging and tools to support them."There were three things we wanted to accomplish with this redesign," said Catherine Mitchell, CDL Publishing Group Director, in a phone interview, "1) ...Read More Industries: News & Features
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