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Library and beehive ...
JISC has produced a short video about the library of the future …
This is part of its Libraries of the
Shifting the sourcing model
A recurrent theme of this blog has been that networking changes the way we think
about organizational boundaries.
So, we
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QOTD: Seamus Heaney on lecturing
From Stepping Stones, a book-length collection of interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll.
The thing I should say,
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A web-siting at the University of Michigan
I came across the University of Michigan beta library website
[https://beta.lib.umich.edu/] the other day. I thought
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Visible people
I continue to be amazed at how difficult it is to find the name or contact
details of the library
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Ranking, rating and recommending
We are now accustomed to being able to rank or recommend on websites. More
importantly, we are accustomed to seeing
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In English?
I thought I would post some numbers here which were prepared by my colleague
Brian Lavoie for another purpose. The
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Augmenting
Layar [https://layar.eu] created a ripple of interest a while ago. It is yet to
be released. It is
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Apple, netbooks and barcodes
I traveled home from the 2nd M-Libraries Conference
[https://m-libraries2009.ubc.ca/] in UBC, Vancouver, yesterday. I was interested
to
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User symposium presentations
The presentations from the 2009 RLG Partnership Annual Symposium: Hearing
voices: connecting with users, enhancing services
[https://www.oclc.org/
Border country: classifying across disciplinary boundaries
Terry Eagleton said somewhere that Raymond Williams was a librarian’s nightmare,
meaning presumably that his work crossed academic boundaries
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