Name, rank and serial number
As authors are recognised as resources to be discovered, managed, ranked, and
tracked, an interest in names and identifiers will
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Systems
Doing things with software and data.
1058 postsBruges Public Library catalogue
Prompted by a recent entry [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002047.html],
I got a note from Koen Calis,
Patterns of publication and library collections as measure of technology shifts?
We were pleased to welcome [https://www.oclc.org/research/news/2010-01-28.htm]
Dr Michelle Alexopoulos [https://www.chass.utoronto.
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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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Digital content quarterly
Digital Content Quarterly
[https://sca.jiscinvolve.org/files/2010/01/sca_dcquarterly_01_dec09-interactive.pdf]
is a new publication from
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Reputational survey
As university rankings attract more attention and as national/regional policy
discussions continue about whether and how to concentrate research
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Europeana
My colleague Ricky Erway bravely accepted the challenge to talk as an outsider
on the challenges faced by Europeana to
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Where are the numbers? The impact of the economic recession on university library and IT services
‘The impact of the economic recession on university library and IT services’ [
pdf [https://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/
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VIAF design pattern
A blog entry by Paul Walk – An infrastructure service anti-pattern
[https://blog.paulwalk.net/2009/12/07/an-infrastructure-service-anti-pattern/] –
drew some
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Institutional researcher pages: an example
Reputation management and researchers
I have written a couple of times recently (here
[https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002011.
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Research assessment and the library ...
I am pleased to note the appearance of a new report on research assessment and
the role of libraries. This
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