Books

Stephen Abram gave a lively presentation to OCLC Members’ Council on Sunday night. Several times he remarked that somebody has

There was some discussion a while ago in various places about the relative merits of bookstore and public library shelf

[https://www.open.ac.uk]The Open University has one of the best logos I know. It does actually communicate

The decision by the New York Times to open up for general reading the formerly for-fee TimeSelect parts of its

I bought the following book in the congenial City Newstand [https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&um=1&

I am writing this in the very fine new public library building in Cheyenne [https://www.lclsonline.org/], Wyoming. I

The iPod link with Starbucks has had a mixed reception. I thought that it was intriguing as one of those

I was interested to read the following in Susan Gibbons’ The academic library and the Net Gen student [https://worldcat.

I mentioned Jim Collins’ book on the social sectors [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001403.html] the other day.

Update: my comments about the published literature below are about the library literature, a very specific set of journals and

An off-topic weekend entry …. I loved the nice conceit in this youtube video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHaDOyMOxt4&

Reading Walt’s latest Cites and Insights this jumped out at me: I believe that gray literature—blogs, this ejournal,