A reservoir not an ocean - visualizing and operationalizing collective collections
When I think of the Google Books initiative now, three things stick with me. The first is simply what an
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The powers of library consortia 4: scoping, sourcing and scaling
In making choices about focus and investment, consortial options can vary along three important axes: scoping, sourcing and (right)scaling.
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The powers of library consortia 3: scaling influence and capacity for impact and efficiency
Scaling capacity (building shared infrastructure and services) and scaling influence (aggregating a library voice to lobby or persuade) are historically core consortial activities.
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The powers of library consortia 2: soft power and purposeful mobilization: scaling learning and innovation
Library consortia play an important role in scaling learning and innovation – this will become both more purposeful and more important in coming years.
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The powers of library consortia 1: how consortia scale capacity, learning, innovation and influence
Libraries and related organizations group together in a variety of ways to get their work done. They consort where there are scale advantages: to lobby, for example, to negotiate and license, to reduce costs, or to build shared infrastructure.
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One handed writing - the blog
Recently @mishdalton [https://twitter.com/mishdalton] pointed me at an article
[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/opinion/tips-for-aspiring-op-ed-writers.
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Libraries and the curse of knowledge
It is important to know what you know, so that you can avoid the curse of knowledge and communicate effectively.
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The facilitated collection
Collections are changing in a network environment. One important direction is the assembly of resources around user needs based on a facilitated access model rather than an acquisition model.
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Research information management systems: a new service category?
It has been interesting watching Research Information Management or RIM emerge as a new service category in the last couple of years.
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The decentered library network presence
The library does not have a singular network presence. There may be a main website, but the library also syndicates its presence to other venues (e.g. RSS), has unbundled to social sites (e.g. Facebook), and sources activity in the cloud (e.g. LibGuides).
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Roses are red .... the top love stories?
St Valentine's Day. What are the most popular love stories? Taking library holdings as a proxy for popularity.
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Full library discovery
The collection remains central to the library experience. However, as library services evolve beyond the collection so it makes sense for discovery services to represent more of what the library does and can provide - to move from 'full collection discovery' to 'full library discovery.'
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