Painting a moving train
Blogged conference reports can be somewhat telegraphese – but are often
interesting to scan.
Here are a couple – followed by an
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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
417 postsAn information society?
Some media experiences in the last day or two:
A TV ad: a driver is rung up and asked if
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L'ogre anglophone
From BiblioAcid on the finding in our Aggregate collections
[https://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/lavoie/09lavoie.html] article that
The anatomy of an aggregate collection
Over the coming years we will take a more active role in managing aggregate or
collective collections: thinking about the
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Picture this
I managed to spend an hour or two in the Prado
[https://museoprado.mcu.es/home.html] last weekend (and
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New model library system vendors
The formation of SirsiDynix prompted a couple of interesting posts. Kenton Good
predicted [https://www.kentongood.com/?p=97] that
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Repository services for non-affiliated researchers
The British Library and the National Library of Australia are each involved in
national Institutional Repository initiatives. These are Sherpa
National Library of Australia - staff papers
The National Library of Australia provides search and browse
[https://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/2005/] (by year of
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Never mind the quality, feel the width
[https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/]What should an excellent research
library look like in 2015? Indeed, what would it
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iPods, platforms and ecosystems
There is an interesting article in Forbes suggesting that the closed approach
that Apple is taking with iTunes and the
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GLAM people
Some years ago, I worked with a group assembled by the relevant part of the European Commission to work on
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The British Library
We visited the British Library on our recent trip — as tourists. We were reminded of what a good public space it has become. The building, the subject of much critical attention when it finally emerged from construction, works as a public building.
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