Systems

The library community is a highly interconnected one. Networks are motivated both by library mission and effective management of resources.

Colleagues at the University of Minnesota have produced another must-read report on the discoverability of library resources [Splash page, PDF]

I was interested to read this from Karen Schneider a while ago: “Centralized mass storage for legacy print materials (paper-based

Two websites I regularly look at are the The Guardian and Times Higher Education . In my lazy way I will

Ask.com announced the demise of Bloglines a while ago. From October 1st the service will no longer exist. The

Not having a copy of The Idea of a university [https://www.worldcat.org/title/idea-of-a-university/oclc/33103649/editions?referer=

One of the recurrent themes in these pages is that systemwide coordination of print materials is necessary as libraries begin

One of the consequences of our network world is that more and more activities are ‘informationalized’: they generate data and

So taken was I by William J Mitchell’s comments on the impact of the network and mobile communications on

A couple of recent events interestingly relate … First, I read in Search Engine Land [https://searchengineland.com/srinija-srinivasan-leaves-yahoo-47997] of the

We spend some time in the very congenial Dayton Art Institute [https://www.daytonartinstitute.org/] this afternoon. We wandered around

[This is 3. Here is 1 [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002115.html] and 2 [https://blog.oclc.org/