Lori Delaney points us to a New York Times article featuring the titanic vision of Brewster Kahle. One interesting quote : “A lot of libraries are doing some pretty drastic weeding. . . .”

You’ll have the opportunity to hear Mr. Kahle and ask questions pertinent to your own operations at the APLIC 45th Annual Conference.

See you in SF !

Alexis Madrigal over at The Atlantic reports that MLA has come up with a standard form for citing tweets. Maybe not mission-central, but nice to know. . . .

The conference registration form is now up and available for download.

Early-bird rate for registration ends on March 30. That may seem like a long way off, but remember that hotel and air rates may change as the date gets closer.

We’ll post some profiles about our speakers as well as updates in the weeks to come . . . stay tuned.

Photo: Franco Folini

The APLIC conference is always a great time to catch up with old friends and learn what colleagues are up to, and the sessions help to keep perspective on substantive issues as well as questions about our craft as information specialists.
Ok – you know the drill.
This year, however, we also get to have all of this in one of the world’s most beautiful cities : San Francisco, California.
Personally, I’ll take a couple extra days to enjoy the SF night life in Chinatown, say hello to Coit Tower, revisit memories in Golden Gate Park, and just enjoy a city that never stops posing for a perfect photo.
As we get closer to April 30, May 1-2, we’ll post items about interesting activities, sightseeing, and entertainment opportunities in and around this great town.
What would you like to do or see while you’re visiting San Francisco ? – let us know in the comments.

These images come from a superb Flickr stream of California images by Franco Folini, who shows himself to have a wonderful, sensitive eye.

Colleen S. Harris, (2011) “The case for partnering doctoral students with librarians: a synthesis of the literatures”, Library Review, Vol. 60 Iss: 7, pp.599 – 620 Abstract

The paper demonstrates an obvious need for focus of library instruction on graduate students, and doctoral students in particular. The paper poses a number of research agendas that can be taken up by practitioners in the field, including various models for implementing instruction for doctoral students.

While it is abundantly clear users want a single, Google-like search interface to the diverse digital information that a cultural institution such as a library provides, it is not yet clear what the optimal approach to providing such integrated searching is. For example, what’s best: a single system such as an ILS, harvesting metadata from multiple systems to a central repository, federated searching of multiple systems, or a centralized search index of multiple systems? Should the employed system be open source or commercial? This concise report presents a summary of the discussions of a working group of nine single-search implementers that was facilitated by OCLC Research about this increasing important topic.

Prescott, Leah, and Ricky Erway. Single Search: The Quest for the Holy Grail. Dublin, OH: OCLC Research, 2011.