Where the money is going
Academic libraries are funded to support the research and learning activities of
their home institutions. As research and learning behaviors
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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
417 postsDolorous Gorman
Students graduate from the successors to library schools without a basic education in the core skills that define an effective
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Book Brother
Vote to evict a book at Book Brother
[https://www.reader-development.com/4ureaders2/bookbrother/default.asp]. Part of
a bigger
u-Portal
I argued
[https://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/recombinant_library/dempsey_recombinant_library.htm]
a while ago that libraries’
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Library lookup and XISBN
Nice note on Jon Udell’s blog about XISBN:
> It actually sort of works, which says a lot for
Union catalog of art images
A Mellon-funded project at UC San Diego to create a union catalog of art images.
The intention is to explore
Dynix and web services
> We use Web Services with our new Vendor Integration Protocol (VIP), through
which acquisitions librarians can check book pricing
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Article on changes in scholarly communication
Suzanne E Thorin provides an overview [https://www.arl.org/scomm/Thorin.pdf"] of
changes in scholarly communication for
Recombinant libraries and special collections in ShelfLife
The October 16 issue of ShelfLife
[https://lists2.rlg.org/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?visit=shelflife-from-rlg&id=225270871]
refers to
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