Innovative 4for14
I went along to the Innovative 4for14 event at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds yesterday, and found a very different company to the one I’ve been working with for several years now. In the past, III staff were always highly knowledgeable about libraries and their software, but slightly less comfortable talking about theoretical areas such as how libraries are changing and how user and technological trends would influence them. Perhaps this represented the ‘black box’ nature of the old core product Millennium. However yesterday the reverse seemed to be true. The four themes which seemed to come out of discussions were Technology, Sharing, Partnerships and Change, whereas discussion was almost steered away from the details of software functionality which would previously have been the focus. Maybe this just reflects Sierra, with its more open APIs? I await the next EIUG conference in Edinburgh to find out!
2 Comments »
Leave a comment
-
Archives
- December 2015 (1)
- October 2015 (1)
- February 2015 (1)
- April 2014 (1)
- February 2014 (1)
- January 2014 (1)
- June 2013 (1)
- May 2013 (1)
- February 2013 (1)
- December 2012 (1)
- November 2012 (2)
- June 2012 (1)
-
Categories
-
RSS
Entries RSS
Comments RSS
So… You haven’t been told about the massive layoffs?
Comment by Anonymous | May 21, 2014
I wasn’t sure about approving the last comment, so I did a bit of googling and came across this: http://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Innovative-Interfaces-Inc-Reviews-E247516.htm. Having been scarred by the Sirsi-Dynix merger in my last job, alarm bells are ringing…..
Comment by Ian | May 21, 2014