Google Book Search and Libraries
My colleague Ricky Erway has distilled material relevant to libraries from the
proposed Google agreement with the APA and Authors’
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Affinity strings, personalization and recommendation
I heard about ‘affinity strings’ on a visit to Minnesota some time ago. I was
pleased to see that they
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QOTD: News futures and brands of one
Michael Hirschorn speculates about the future of the New York Times in The
Atlantic.
Update: Perhaps the introduction of Bono
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Bibliotherapy at the School of Life
If you visit the School of Life [https://www.theschooloflife.com/homepage.aspx],
you might stay a while; its tagline
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Always on: libraries in a world of permanent connectivity
The January issue of First Monday
[https://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/274] has
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Holiday note 3: knitting a web presence
I find website appearance both more and less important, as I suggested in a post
[https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/
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Holiday note 2: QOTD: video games
John Lanchester has an article on video games
[https://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/lanc01_.html] in the current
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Holiday note 1: Ohio
An off-topic holiday note for non-US readers. The first year or two we were in
Ohio we spent quite a
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A timeline
Here is what I saw at the end of the page when I did a Google search on Edmund
Burke
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Museum studies
The UK academic world was in a frenzy yesterday as the results of the Research
Assessment Exercise were published. In
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Card Catalogue Online
I was interested to come across the University of Bristol’s ‘Card catalogue
online’, a resource based on scanned images
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