QOTD: Marcus and Morrison
Greil Marcus finished an article about the reception of his recent book on Van
Morrison with this lovely quote:
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Outside-in and inside-out redux
I have been using this phrase, outside-in and inside-out, to discuss a contrast
in information management practices that is becoming
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More on VuFind
I wrote an entry [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002100.html] on yufind
the other day, noting its use
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A web-siting at Yale: other editions and xISBN
I was looking at the Vufind implementation of the Yale University Library
catalog – yufind [https://yufind.library.yale.edu/yufind/
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'Reading at Library-scale'/'distant reading'
We are accustomed to a model in which books or other materials are read item by item in a 'close' reading way, at human scale. However, we now see growing interest in distant reading, or reading at collection- or library-scale.
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Return on attention and Current Cites
I was quite taken with the phrase “return on attention” while reading
[https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002086.html]
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Reading lists, citation management and bibliographic tissue
Here is something I wrote a couple of years ago under the title Personal
reference collections as digital libraries
[https:
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A note about Tracey Thorn
A little off topic … I have been listening to Tracey Thorn’s new album, Love
and
its opposite
[https://www.
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A spectacle
I have been wearing glasses for thirty years or so. I ordered a new pair
yesterday, and when I got
Research analytics
Analytics is big business. Organizations are increasingly turning to the
analysis of transactional and other data to inform decision-making. Websites
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