Stephen le Francoeur

thank you - RepoRat

Credit goes to Diane Hillmann for linking to it in this recent post of hers about MARC and BIBFRAME. http://managemetadata.com/blog... - Stephen le Francoeur

I have the ARC, but haven't cracked it open. - holly #ravingfangirl from iPhone

I have; I thought it was lovely. Witty and charming. It sort of took me by surprise, honestly. - Julie Kane

In the entry in the Transformers wiki on Orion Pax (Optimus Prime before he became the leader of the Autobots), I'm told that "Fowler calls Orion a 'librarian, in disbelief that he has lost his memories: this was Megatron's favored insult for Optimus in Exodus." If I ever get my hands on that Megatron, why I'd... - Stephen le Francoeur

I was willing to give Megatron a pass on the whole "hellbent on obtaining all the Earth's energy supplies for his personal use" thing. But this means war. - Steele Lawman

Pull quote: “Conversations about open access are no longer about whether it is a good idea; rather, the focus is on best practices, sustainability, and maximizing OA’s impact. With this shift in conversation, it is imperative that information professionals are ready to support open access and all it entails.” - Stephen le Francoeur

Pull quote: “Sometimes I think cataloging is the third rail of library discussions, but I’m going jump right on it: It is not the library’s responsibility to employ catalogers. It is the library’s responsibility to make our resources easy for our users to find, and if we can do that faster and cheaper, we have an obligation to do so.” - Stephen le Francoeur

Pull quote: “But three recent events and publications have me made more deeply aware of something I think scholarly authors are also beginning to discover—that the traditional commercial publishing model is actively harmful to the interests of good scholarship. Not just failing to keep up with changing conditions, but lagging behind in ways that threaten the quality and integrity of the scholarly enterprise itself.” - Stephen le Francoeur