SirsiDynix Blogs

What is a blog?

According to Wikipedia, "a blog is a website in which journal entries are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called 'blogging'. Individual articles on a blog are called 'blog posts,' 'posts' or 'entries'. A person who posts these entries is called a 'blogger'. A blog comprises hypertext, images, and links (to other webpages and to video, audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular 'area of interest', such as Washington, D.C.'s political goings-on. Some blogs discuss personal experiences."

You can find out more about Web blogs in general (including a brief history) by visiting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog.

Current Blogs

Stephen's Lighthouse
Stephen's Lighthouse is a blog where SirsiDynix's vice president of innovation muses about all things library and librarianesque.

The lighthouse theme is based on what lighthouses do – shine a light on the waters and/or sound a horn to help ships navigate the course. They can't always stop the ships from crashing onto the rocks, but they help most of the time.

Stephen keeps a keen eye on trends in libraries, librarianship, and technology. He offers his own opinions, as well as pointing to the writings of others that can be helpful or have insight. Stephen believes that the role of libraries in their communities is transformational, and libraries and librarians have a tremendous opportunity to make a difference in the world.

Stephen says that the goal of his blog is to "help the good ship Library World navigate to its vision of the future."

At Your Service
Welcome to the new "At Your Service" blog here at SirsiDynix. We are excited to discuss with you new service initiatives, new training methods, client care helps and more. We think this blog can help us work together even better and also give you access to ideas and thoughts from people with many years in the library automation field.

Let us take a journey together, and learn about best practices in library management, training your staff, how best to use client care, and more. We are excited to get started! I hope you are too and find much useful information in the forthcoming posts.

Please be sure to drop us a note and let us know what topics are of great interest to you, and we'll try to cover your pressing questions along with giving helpful hints to achieve success in your use of library automation products.

See you soon,
Matt Hawkins
COO, SirsiDynix

Sustainable Development
Welcome to the "Sustainable Development" blog from a few of us at SirsiDynix. We are excited to communicate with you in this manner and hope it is beneficial to you.

Throughout the next several posts, we hope to convey a little of what we are planning down the road, thoughts we have on upcoming technology, and insights into the development of current and upcoming SirsiDynix products.

We hope you will feel free to comment on this blog and let us know what you are interested in hearing about. We are happy to take you behind the scenes and make this a helpful resource for you!

Cheers,
Talin
CTO