Library collections
On my way home through Hong Kong airport, I bought A case of two cities
[https://worldcat.org/oclc/70158555]
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Books
Notes about books, movies and reading.
306 postsA perspective on the academic library
The pattern of central funding for education and cultural areas in the UK has
led to the emergence of a
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Books are technology too
The book as a material object is central, influential and marvelously adapted to various uses. It is the outcome of a technology and design process over many years. This is increasingly recognised in the digital environment and the evolved technology of the book is more apparent.
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Discovery at the network level
Evan Schnittman of OUP responds to an article in the FT (now behind a
subscription wall
[https://www.ft.com/
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Wales, Ohio and library poems
The National Library of Wales is celebrating
[https://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=161] its centenary with a
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Gaming and the Rhinoceros in the Room
Jenny Levine spoke about gaming and libraries at Getting in the flow. I hadn’t seen this presentation before and
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A book cloud
[https://del.icio.us/oclc2005top1000]My marketing colleague Andy Havens
suggested that we think about making the Top 1000 works
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Paper platforms
From BuzzMachine:
> Yesterday, Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian
[https://www.Guardian.co.uk], told the staff of his
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The publication profile of the Divine Bohemian
[https://orlabs.oclc.org/SRW/search/NameFinder?query=local.pnkey+exact+%22myslivecek,%20josef$1737%201781%22]
From an article in
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QOTD: Google books
Peter Brantley, the new Director of the Digital Library Federation writes about
the library digitization initiatives with Google:
> We
