2.0 and the new catalog

Forget the expensive Endeca backend - the answer is here, I think. Literally, right down the street. LibLime caused a lot of excitement among my library school students last year - the concept of a usable and cheap and customizable catalog that doesn't require a scad of specially trained Voyager geeks!

There's more to come - I heard the praises of Rescarta as opposed to ContentDM. Rescarta has the great advantage of Free and Open Source. Zotero vs EndNote. 2. 0 may not be THE answer, but it's better than the $600,000 Answer.

So tagging isn't LCSH - LCSH isn't all that, anyway. At some point, we'll find a happy medium for precision and usability, but LCSH ain't it, and tagging ain't it, but they're both a good first step. We can't stop in the middle and say it's good enough - 2.0 is all about making it better, about new ideas, about collaboration.

2.0 is library science for science fiction fans - thinking outside the box.