The network reconfigures the library systems environment
One of the main issues facing libraries as they work to create richer user
services is the complexity of their
7 min read
Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
419 postsMIT reports
I like the format of the MIT Annual Reports on the web: the library director and
her AULs report on
2 min read
Developing a 'next generation' systemwide catalog
Judith Pearce from the National Library of Australia left an interesting comment
about the integration, or not, of full-text book
2 min read
Data curation: a couple of things
Curating our Digital Scientific Heritage: a Global Collaborative Challenge
[https://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2007/] is the title of
2 min read
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
5 min read
What does the boss think?
Attitudes of presidents and provosts on the university library is the title of
an interesting article in the current issue
2 min read
Social media
I have just watched the video [video opens on a web page
[https://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/49]
1 min read
In the flow - Washington and Wikipedia
In recent presentations
[https://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/presentations.htm] I have been
referring to the University of
1 min read
Four sources of metadata about things
I think it is useful to think of four sources of descriptive metadata in
libraries. These are not mutually exclusive,
3 min read
Academic Library Organization
One of the reasons I liked [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001325.html]
Key Perspectives’ report on Researchers’ Use
2 min read
A small note on the catalog
[https://www.lib.washington.edu/]I visited the University of Virginia last week
where I spoke about the future of
1 min read
A many featured catalogue
[/lorcand/lorcan/images/powerhouseresult.html]
The Powerhouse Museum [https://www.powerhousemuseum.com/home.php] in Sydney has
been doing very
3 min read
