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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Hamster wheeling ....
I have found the expression ‘hamster wheeling’ useful over the last few years. I
tend to use it in the
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Books, artifactually and anecdotally speaking ...
Artifacts
Anecdotally speaking ……. it seems to me that the artifactual and design elements
of print books are coming more to
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Effective web presence ...
We are growing used to the idea that simply making things available on the web
does not necessarily make them
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Analysing influence .. the personal reputational hamsterwheel
Analysing influence has been a central part of academic life. We are very
familiar with citation analysis. This is possible
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Sourcing and scaling: the University of California
I was interested to see Heather Christenson describe The Hathi Trust as a
collaboratively sourced web scale research library in
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Academic reputation enhancement ... redux
Two things prompted this note ….
First, there is an interesting report in the current issue of Nature on the
‘online
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Elected ...
I thought it would be nice to record that a couple of my colleagues had recently
been elected to positions
Decentred network presence
We still tend to think of the website as the focus of institutional presence on
the network. And, often, mobile
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Lost in translation .. redux
I am at The 9th Annual Library Leadership Institute
[https://lib.hku.hk/leadership/2011.html] in Bangkok. This event
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Advocacy: public library as amenity and necessity
Downward pressure on the cost of public services creates issues for public
libraries. A growth in advocacy is a natural
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Lam-inating libraries ... redux
The shared interests between libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) has been an
important line of work
[https://www.oclc.org/
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