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> Library operations are simple CRUD Not the ones that manage royalties payments to 1000s of authors depending on data collected by a national system of librar
by KineticLensman 2y ago
> Library operations are simple CRUD
Not the ones that manage royalties payments to 1000s of authors depending on data collected by a national system of library IT, or the Secure (!) electronic delivery service that makes more than 100 million items available to researchers worldwide. See [1] for a full list of the massive range of non-trivial services operated by the National Library.
> These organizations are simply incompetent and are now paying the price for being run by fools who don’t know what they’re doing
Well Information Management is literally what some of their staff are trained in, but the National Library is publicly funded, so can't update software on its own terms.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library
- sneak 2y agoI said most. The complex ones could be replaced by a small team and a month or two. It’s not a hard app. Public funds should never be used to support such brittle and idiotic institutions, regardless of how noble their mission may be. Running windows at scale off a read/write drive by untrained staff is negligent and has been for at least 5-10 years now. Putting windows in the hands of people who aren’t expert-level at data security without your own medium-sized IT security team to file off all of the rough edges and foot guns is like handing a pistol to a toddler. It’s your fault, not theirs. Of course they got ransomwared. Give them a webapp and some iPads or Chromebooks. Stop pretending Windows endpoints for non-engineer staff is sane or reasonable. It’s absolutely not unless you have a dozen+ full-time dudes layered on top whose only job is to make it so. What works for Google doesn’t work for you, and what works for JPMChase and Boeing doesn’t work for you.