Search and memory
An interesting post on Ida takes tea [https://blog.educause.edu/catherine] talks
about the use of bookmarking tools – such
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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
417 postsNetwork-external and network-internal
I have just written the following for other purposes:
> The library community is engaged in a difficult transition: from
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Which environment?
We are used to thinking about the user in the library environment. This will
continue to be important.
A major
On Google Scholar and library instruction
On Google Scholar is one of my more consulted RSS feeds. I like the mix of
useful pointers and light
Off-web and on-web
Andy Powell writes [pdf
[https://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/ie-google/ie-google.pdf]
] about potential points of contact
Library collections viewed systemically
OCLC Research has been doing quite a bit of work on collection analysis in the
last couple of years: mining
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Public libraries in Dublin
Fintan O'Toole has a wonderful essay on the public library in 'The university of the people: celebrating Irish public libraries.' He calls it: "Reading, writing and rebelling: growing up with public libraries".
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Aura and digitization
Writing here about the digitization initiatives in the “Google 5” libraries a while ago I referred to aura:
Walter Benjamin
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A utopian place of criticism
I used two quotes in a (long) article
[https://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlis/models/publications/utopia/] written some time
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Metasearch, google and the rest
How quickly things can change! Last year there were discussions about the
Google-busting potential of metasearch. How naive. This year
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Oregon State University
I tend to look at library strategic plans when they are available on the web.
They are interesting indicators of
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Thinking about metadata collections
Peter Murray [https://www.pandc.org/peter/work/resume.html] [authority record
[https://errol.oclc.org/laf/no2004-9223.html]] left
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