Mobile .. Top Tech Trends 1
I was pleased to participate in LITA’s Top Tech Trends panel at ALA this year
(see the video
[https:
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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
421 postsThe cloud is currently a question, not an answer
I will be on the LITA Top Technology Trends
[https://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/lita/litaevents/annual2010/index.
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Distinctive impact and specialization
In the print era, the cost of interacting with multiple information sources was
high so there were incentives for newspapers
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Outside-in and inside-out redux
I have been using this phrase, outside-in and inside-out, to discuss a contrast
in information management practices that is becoming
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QR codes again ...
Andy Walsh [https://librarymobiles.blogspot.com/] of the University of
Huddersfield gave a very nice presentation on QR Codes at
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Focusing on the distinctive ...
Links to a story in yesterday’s NYT are popping up around the place. Called
Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing
[https:
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A web-siting at The University of Rochester
I was struck by several things on the home page
[https://www.library.rochester.edu/] of The River Campus Libraries
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Lam-inating libraries ....
The shared interests between libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) is an
important line of work
[https://www.oclc.org/research/
Mission of the library redux
I heard Anders Söderbäck of the Royal Library in Sweden speak
[https://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/konferens/Konf2010/informationstjanster/konf.html]
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Sourcing and scaling
One of the major issues facing libraries as the network reconfigures processes
is how appropriately to source and scale activities.
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Reconfigurations
Readers will have noted recently that I have been interested in reputation
management and impact, and in how libraries may
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Outside-in and inside-out
The collections acquired from outside though licensing and purchasing (outside in) have very different characteristics from each other. They in turn have quite different characteristics from materials distinctive to the institution such as special collections or research outputs (inside out).
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