Tagging at the network level
There is a fascinating entry by Seb Chan of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney
documenting experiences one month into their
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Collections
Collective, inside-out, facilitated, optimized, pluralized and computationally analyzed.
114 postsInformation also wants to be expensive
I bought [i] a New York Times yesterday in our local Borders and, over coffee,
was interested to open up
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Book search and glanceability
Somebody I was talking to recently mentioned that they liked they way Microsoft
implemented book search [https://books.live.com]
Kindle again
I got hold of a Kindle at work the other day, only for an evening as I had to
pass
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Kindle
The whole world seems to have seen that Newsweek is carrying a cover story about
Kindle from Amazon 😉 The story
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Dis-owning collections
It is now conventional to make a distinction between what libraries own (e.g.
books, DVDs, …) and what they license
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References
Alma Swan has an interesting post
[https://optimalscholarship.blogspot.com/2007/07/what-difference-publisher-makes.html]
discussing the value added by the
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Systemic change: CIC and Google
Today Google and CIC announce an agreement to digitize ten million volumes across the CIC libraries. Google has been adding
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The digital creates interest in the physical
Carla Montori spoke about the Google digitization initiative at the University
of Michigan at the LIBER Think Tank on the
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Resolving the serials supply chain
Link resolvers and the serials supply chain [pdf
[https://www.uksg.org/sites/uksg.org/files/uksg_link_resolvers_final_
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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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QOTD: Libraries and learning management systems
I have just acquired Virtual learning environments: using choosing and
developing your VLE [https://worldcat.org/oclc/71146340] by Martin
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