Big data .. big trend
[I spoke at the Lita Top Technology Trends at Dallas. I had a trend in reserve –
big data – but did
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Linking not typing ... knowledge organization at the network level
‘Knowledge organization’ seems a slightly quaint term now, but we don’t have a
better in general use. Take the
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End of the digest ....
For almost as long as this blog has been going we have had an associated digest.
This has gone out
Social reading
It seems to me I have heard the phrase ‘social reading’ more often recently.
That said, it also seems to
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Collections are library assets
Business school writing
I quite like using the word ‘assets’ with reference to library collections. We tend to think of
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The ILS, the digital library and the research library
Job adverts are interesting for a variety of reasons. They give a sense of skills and attributes in demand. They say something about how the hiring institution wants to present itself. And they can indicate trends.
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Preserving musical heritage ...
One of the casualties of the London riots last week was a Sony distribution
warehouse.
> The building, owned by
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Nostalgia, the Dublin Irish Festival, and variant forms of names
The Dublin Irish Festival is on this weekend – Dublin, Ohio, that is. I notice that Moya Brennan is performing.
As
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Worldcat Identities Network: a 'mashup'
There has been some nice reaction to the Worldcat Identities Network
[https://www.oclc.org/research/news/2011-07-28.htm].
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Gamification: services and libraries
I have been interested to see more notes in my tweetstream about peoples’
exercise or diet regimes. They are typically
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Spotify and Klout: fungible influence
Popular music streaming service Spotify has just launched in the US. For some
background see the Ars Technica story
[https:
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Some quotes: sizing the academic library ...
A couple of years ago Ross Housewright of Ithaka S+R published an article about
the future of academic libraries.
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