Academic Library Organization
One of the reasons I liked [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001325.html]
Key Perspectives’ report on Researchers’ Use
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Research ∕ Learning
Research and learning behaviors drive academic library change.
294 postsFaculty and Facebook
Here is an interesting short paper on student/faculty relations in Facebook by a
couple of researchers from Georgia Tech
Supporting research and learning invisibly
The (admirably brief!) Macquarie University Library strategic plan states:
> Over the next three years we will be designing and
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A perspective on the academic library
The pattern of central funding for education and cultural areas in the UK has
led to the emergence of a
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Books are technology too
The book as a material object is central, influential and marvelously adapted to various uses. It is the outcome of a technology and design process over many years. This is increasingly recognised in the digital environment and the evolved technology of the book is more apparent.
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Harvard tags
An interesting couple of videos [here
[https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2007/03/30/social-tagging-harvard-part-i/]
and here
[https://blogs.
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QOTD: Libraries and learning management systems
I have just acquired Virtual learning environments: using choosing and
developing your VLE [https://worldcat.org/oclc/71146340] by Martin
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Student use
I was very interested to read (via eFoundations
[https://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/]) a note on the Ancient Geeks
[https:
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Excitation - making connections with citations: a couple of presentations
I was interested to see a presentation about Sakaibrary [ppt
[https://www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/CenterForLibraryInitiatives/Archive/ConferencePresentation/Library-IntheFlow_
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Our digital identities: bricolage, prefabrication and disclosure
In recent presentations
[https://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/presentations.htm] I talk about
workflow in quite general terms.
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Patterns of collecting of non-us books in ARL libraries
ARL has just released a report on patterns of collection of non-US books in
member libraries based on an analysis
The scholarly and cultural record
There is an interesting piece by Katie Hafner in today’s NYT arguing that
materials left undigitized may be overlooked
