Systems

Library leaders should be drawn from across the organization. Any idea that technology leaders are overly specialised or too distant from general library work is outmoded and counter-productive.

The presentation Two Metadata Directions looked at metadata trends, including entification and pluralization. Here are the slides, video and a link to a fuller discussion.

Metadata practice continues to evolve as research and cultural practices diversify. After a brief environmental view, I discuss two important metadata trends here: entification and pluralization.

When I think of the Google Books initiative now, three things stick with me. The first is simply what an

It has been interesting watching Research Information Management or RIM emerge as a new service category in the last couple of years.

The library does not have a singular network presence. There may be a main website, but the library also syndicates its presence to other venues (e.g. RSS), has unbundled to social sites (e.g. Facebook), and sources activity in the cloud (e.g. LibGuides).

St Valentine's Day. What are the most popular love stories? Taking library holdings as a proxy for popularity.

The collection remains central to the library experience. However, as library services evolve beyond the collection so it makes sense for discovery services to represent more of what the library does and can provide - to move from 'full collection discovery' to 'full library discovery.'

There is not a one-to-one relationship between names and people. This means that the relationship between people and their names and identities has become something that is managed in a variety of places. OCLC Research has several projects in this area.

Libraries are increasingly taking a system-wide perspective of their roles and services. This can take different forms.

Inside-out and outside-in: libraries, collections, services I have been interested in the different dynamics of the inside-out and outside-in library