DISQUS

John Fink · 8 months ago

Did you like this presentation? Was it too OCLC heavy? Did you come away with a pretty solid understanding of cloud stuff? I am considering making a presentation proposal on cloud computing both in general and also how I did something at my local institution, but don't know if it's something people would dig or not.

Matt Hamilton · 8 months ago

This presentation was thought provoking. A lot of people summed it up as "oh, OCLC wants to own all of our data". I don't think it's entirely an inaccurate assessment, but I also think there is some merit to what they were suggesting-- that a lot of processes are the same in libraries the whole world over, and it makes sense to scale them to the web in such a way that libraries can focus on service provision-- not on everyone cataloging, marking, maintaining an OPAC, etc. Also-- I liked his point about how we would turn up in search engines more if we banded our resources together, but because we're so fractured we don't appear as the resource of choice.

I think what you're talking about would be different, and yes-- I do think there is room for more cloud computing presentations at library conferences. I would probably go!