Systems

NISO organized a meeting [https://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/lrms09] on library resource management a couple of weeks

We are awash in assisted thinking, as I may have remarked [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001885.html]. One

Reputation management on the web – individual and institutional – has become a more conscious activity for many, as ranking, assessment and

A while ago, I suggested [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001351.html] that it was interesting to think about

I was asked in a meeting recently to define metadata. This prompts me to adapt some text recycled from All

I was very taken by Timothy Burke [https://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/]‘s presentation at the first open meeting [https:

Digital environments provide many more opportunities for serendipity than print ones. Sure, there may be happy discoveries on the shelf

‘Book’ is a big word. It has a lot of power as it is intimately bound up with our intellectual

The proposed Google Books settlement has created a strong interest in quantifying publications and authors, to get a better sense

I posted a while ago [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001971.html] about the potential benefits of sharing usability

From Larry McMurtry’ [https://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n79-27185]s reminiscences as a bookseller: Books: a memoir [https://www.worldcat.

There is a significant – if little read – literature of cataloging theory. A recurrent theme is the balance between gathering like