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It bears repeating that many library standards, notably MARC, are essentially non-relational and non-normalized. Fully normalized relational databases aren't an obvious idea if you're never been exposed to them—and something like a religious revelation once you have. Whether or not SQL is a useful skill for librarians and library staff, the meme is worth spreading. Maybe we could put it in the water. T On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > -- Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding