Thinking about the G5
Here are some random thoughts abot the Google library digitization discussions
….
* If large amounts of the G5 library collections are
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Services for intermediate consumers
Google, Yahoo!, Amazon …. For many these services are the first and last resort
of research. They exercise a major gravitational
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On Google Scholar and library instruction
On Google Scholar is one of my more consulted RSS feeds. I like the mix of
useful pointers and light
Off-web and on-web
Andy Powell writes [pdf
[https://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/ie-google/ie-google.pdf]
] about potential points of contact
Library collections viewed systemically
OCLC Research has been doing quite a bit of work on collection analysis in the
last couple of years: mining
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Aura again: habent sua fata libelli
Individual books have histories. In some cases those histories are significant.
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The Annotated Times
[https://nytimes.blogrunner.com/]Blogrunner [https://www.blogrunner.com/] has
an interesting service where they integrate blog commentary with the
Quotes about order and disorder
Order seems very much a part of the public perception of the library, often counterposed to the potential disorder of
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Public libraries in Dublin
Fintan O'Toole has a wonderful essay on the public library in 'The university of the people: celebrating Irish public libraries.' He calls it: "Reading, writing and rebelling: growing up with public libraries".
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Aura and digitization
Writing here about the digitization initiatives in the “Google 5” libraries a while ago I referred to aura:
Walter Benjamin
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Systems in the network world
The last year has really made it clear that library systems sit in a broader
network environment. The emerging integration
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Taking a break
Posts are scarce at the moment, and will be for a while, as I am on vacation. We
are in
