Article about SkyRiver 2010 July 6
After being away for a short while at a conference, I am catching up on some week old e-mails. One e-mail I received was about an article in ALCTS Newsletter Online about Michigan State University’s experience with the new SkyRiver bibliographic utility. The bottom line, according to the article, is that they saved about $80,000 a year and didn’t see a loss in productivity once the catalogers became used to using SkyRiver instead of OCLC for copy cataloging. They did say, however, that foreign language materials where lacking. They also mentioned the cost-prohibitiveness of uploading records to OCLC. Anyway, if you are at all interested in this alternative to OCLC, it gives a nice, albeit brief, overview of Michigan State’s experience with SkyRiver.