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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. -- Eric Lease Morgan Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame