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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Collections
Collective, inside-out, facilitated, optimized, pluralized and computationally analyzed.
114 postsFinding Time
A funny video about a library website? Yes, it is possible ….
One of the highlights of the CIC 2007 Library
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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QOTD: Google books
Peter Brantley, the new Director of the Digital Library Federation writes about
the library digitization initiatives with Google:
> We
Music library
I was listening to the audio for the ALA Top Tech Trends session on the LITA
Blog [https://www.litablog.
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Tundish, maps and emergent knowledge
There is a famous passage in A portrait of the artist as a young man where Stephen Dedalus is talking
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Circulation and the collective collection again
I stumbled upon the pages at Swarthmore College Library devoted to WH Auden’s
spell as a teacher there earlier
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Mass digitization
In preparation for my trip to France recently, I read, in English, Jean-Noël
Jeanneney’s critique of the Google digitization
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QOTD: hiding things on the library website
Libraries struggle with how to present multiple digital materials on their
websites. Here is The Oldie [https://www.theoldie.co.
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Discovery, delivery, distributed inventory management
Resource discovery has been a focus of much attention in recent years.
Once discovery opportunities are provided, a focus on
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Scoping collective collections
Over the next few years libraries will devote more attention to systemwide
optimization of collections – within consortia, regions or countries.
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