Institutions

Light-hearted exercise where the library is pitted against Google in answering vital questions of the day. > Google, the world’

Some nice remarks by Peter Suber in his latest SOAN: > As I read the news, both halves of this

Some interesting data from Dan Greenstein about relative use of catalog (and the library’s physical holdings) and the newer

Bob Martin has been emphasizing the role of libraries and museums in support of learning. I now notice that the

The NYT is carrying an article on the impact of the Gates Foundation on public libraries through grants for technology

Reed-Elsevier argues value of existing publishing model. > The use of scientific information is spreading as technology allows more researchers

> libraries doing good things with blogs [blogwithoutalibrary.net [https://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/index.shtml?links.html]]

I spoke at the State Librarians’ Meeting at OCLC last week. Myself and Phyllis Spies participated in a session with

Belatedly, it is worth noting Roy’s remarks about xISBN in his recent LJ column: > Useful on its own,

The 7th International Bielefeld Conference: Proceedings [https://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/proceedings/] have just been announced. Jay highlights the work

The California Digital Library has a web page [Inside CDL [https://www.cdlib.org/inside/]] linking to its working documents.

I presented the closing keynote [ppt [https://www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/vala_20040205.ppt]] at the recent VALA