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My former OCLC colleague Eric Hellman has become one of the more interesting
bloggers in our space. A little while
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Talking to people
I am interviewed occasionally for a report somebody is preparing. Sometimes
internal, not for publication, sometimes published. It is always
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Reconfigurations
Readers will have noted recently that I have been interested in reputation
management and impact, and in how libraries may
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Outside-in and inside-out
The collections acquired from outside though licensing and purchasing (outside in) have very different characteristics from each other. They in turn have quite different characteristics from materials distinctive to the institution such as special collections or research outputs (inside out).
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Digital content quarterly
Digital Content Quarterly
[https://sca.jiscinvolve.org/files/2010/01/sca_dcquarterly_01_dec09-interactive.pdf]
is a new publication from
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Reputational survey
As university rankings attract more attention and as national/regional policy
discussions continue about whether and how to concentrate research
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Europeana
My colleague Ricky Erway bravely accepted the challenge to talk as an outsider
on the challenges faced by Europeana to
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Where are the numbers? The impact of the economic recession on university library and IT services
‘The impact of the economic recession on university library and IT services’ [
pdf [https://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/
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VIAF design pattern
A blog entry by Paul Walk – An infrastructure service anti-pattern
[https://blog.paulwalk.net/2009/12/07/an-infrastructure-service-anti-pattern/] –
drew some
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Institutional researcher pages: an example
Reputation management and researchers
I have written a couple of times recently (here
[https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002011.
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How to repost?
I ‘re-posted’ [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002035.html] my entry on
the ‘two ways of Web 2.0’
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