JISC has just made available a report by Nicky Ferguson and colleagues about consistency of metadata and policies between repositories.

Eric Lease Morgan has a nice note [https://infomotions.com/blog/2008/11/worldcat-hackathon/] reporting on the Worldcat Hackathon held

I am en route back to Columbus, Ohio. I am now in Atlanta – nearly there! I have been reading Roads:

My former colleague and network resident [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001773.html], Andy Powell [https://www.eduserv.org.

I was pretty interested to see this panel on the home page of the Kelvin Smith Library [https://library.case.

Regular readers will know that I follow the Hitwise blog. I was interested to see their note on Google Book

There is an interesting and reflective commentary about the historical record and ‘unpublishing’ in the Guardian. I particularly like the

Writing about scholarly method, Paul Courant discusses ‘information literacy’ and ‘scholarly literacy’. > Partly in response to these concerns, there

After a recent makeover, search engine Ask has a nice clean interface and some nice features. One that is foregrounded

I have observed [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001556.html] that ‘concentration’ – of data, of connections, of computing capacity

On the politics and business of standards making ….. > Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and standards, tells me