Sympathy for Microsoft ...
We are watching a handful of companies battle to support our work and learning
lives, our communication, entertainment and social
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Internal boundary changes .. the library in the institution
It has been interesting in recent years to see how library boundaries within
universities have shifted as relationships with other
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The library building and the library service
Library buildings were built around collections. They are now being reconfigured to be built around experiences.
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Children's Book Week .... Retread
[A discussion about children’s book Peepo! on Twitter prompt me to recycle this
entry from 2006]
To mark Children’
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The amplified event
We now amplify conferences - combining various engagement options for people who are not present face to face at the event. Physical presence is increasingly seen as one mode only of participation.
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The power of pull redux .. with examples
The power of pull
I have written about the Power of Pull
[https://www.edgeperspectives.com/pop.html] before, an
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The Collections shift
A few things about library collection shifts came to my attention this week … Taken together, they underline several central trends:
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Buying books and/or experiences: a consumer view
A while ago I was interested to observe that I had begun to resist buying paperback novels. Before that, I
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The institution and the network ... a question of scale
I was interested to come across this passage in a presentation [ppt
[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/Library-Strategy-Final.ppt]
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The university's curatorial role
I made a note in these pages a couple of years ago about the University of Edinburgh’s mission statement.
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Using Wikipedia
We still don’t appear to know what to make of Wikipedia. Consider these two
cases.
First, Edward Glaeser includes
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The library network and the scholarly record
The library community is a highly interconnected one. Networks are motivated
both by library mission and effective management of resources.
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