On Jul 30, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Cloutman, David wrote:
Perhaps you should put together some MySQL training materials for
librarians. A webinar, perhaps. I'd love it if my colleagues had those
skills. I don't think there is that much interest, but I could be
wrong.
There are at least 101 ways enterprise level database skills could be
put to work in my library. I'm pretty sick of our core technical
solutions being Excel spreadsheets and the occasional Access database.
Blech.
Tell me about it, and besides, basic SQL is not any more difficult
than CCL. SELECT this FROM that WHERE field LIKE "%foo%" Moreover,
IMHO, relational databases are the technological bread & butter of
librarianship these days. Blissful ignorance does the profession
little good.
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Eric Lease Morgan
Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
