Books

I have just had occasion to reread Walter Benjamin’s essay Unpacking my library. It is full of memorable lines

The useful Newscan Daily service includes a section Honorary Subscriber where they discuss a person of interest. The current issue

I recently came across this online Festschrift for Wendy Lougee, marking her departure from Michigan. > Digital libraries : a vision

The BBC held a Top Screen Scientist Vote [https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/scientists/] and the results are in.

Ross Mayfield summarises current discussions about the ‘trustworthiness’ of Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page]. > Which brings

A very nice roundup of news and progress reports in the inaugural issue of UKOLN focus [https://www.ukoln.ac.

Steve Gillmor makes an interesting observation about the uptake of RSS. I wonder what proportion of readers of popular blogs

A SOAP Opera [https://asoapopera.blogspot.com/] is an “An e-business novel about Web Services & Service Oriented Architectures”. Unfortunately,

An article in today’s New York Times (free registration) talks about how academic libraries are developing as group learning

People who see FictionFinder [https://fictionfinder.oclc.org/] occasionally say that it is a public library application. In this context

Next Wednesday is the centenary of the fictional day on which Joyce’s Ulysses is set. There are various events

Hal Varian reviews Nicholas Carr’s book Does IT matter [https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591394449/