The Portable Consultant

library science, past and present
Many, many, moons ago The Portable Consultant was involved in the classification of audio-visual materials for a university library. I recall that the classification scheme in favour at the time was a modified Lamy-Rousseau which attempted to bring uniformity to a library’s A/V collections.
One of the issues I had with the [...]

It’s not often that The Portable Consultant scoops The Economist… well, not exactly but sort of…
Back in July of 2005 I suggested here that Internet options (like podcasting) would compete with satellite radio. I followed this up with a couple of posts… here… and here.
Today The Economist commented on the pending merger of XM and [...]

As some of you may recall, The Portable Consultant is presently assisting with the implementation of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) System for a Canadian financial company. The vendor has now been selected and the project PM is scheduling the vendor’s training courses. One of the course descriptions mentions management of “content subscription” and the [...]