Externalizing search
Art Rhyno continues
[https://webvoy.uwindsor.ca:8087/artblog/librarycog/1101618279/] his interesting
series on the inadvertent gifts of recent
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Yahoo tips
Website design tips [ppt
[https://www.ysearchblog.com/files/wmw2004/search-friendly-design.ppt]] for
improving findability in Yahoo! Presented at WebmasterWorld’
Learning object repositories
A review of six learning object repositories from EduTools has been made
available. It appears as a Word document
[https:
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The complement of books
We spent several days in Washington DC over the Thanksgiving period. We were
intrigued by Rachel Whiteread’s Untitled (Library)
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20 top IT mistakes to avoid
Chad Dickerson, in InfoWorld, writes about the top 20 IT mistakes to avoid. A
couple of quotes:
> On the
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University rankings
The Times Higher Education Supplement [subscribers only – guest subscription
available] [https://www.thes.co.uk/worldrankings/] has compiled a list
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Simple gets used
More of Bosworth. It is worth thinking about MARC and Z39.50 in the context of
this entry. MARC will
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Library logistics
Logistics is everywhere. During the recent Olympics
[https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000399.html], DHL and UPS were heavy
Mobile devices
A new JISC report on mobile devices.
> Increasingly, staff and students within higher education institutions own and
make use
British Library and wireless
The introduction of wireless networking at the British Library has been noticed in several places. More interesting than the announcement
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Bibliographic access division
The Bibliographic Access Division of the Library of Congress has released its
Stratgic Plan FY2003-2008 Goals and Initiatives for Fiscal
Institutional incentives
Some nice remarks in Diglet on Paul Conway’s recent presentation
[https://www.oclc.org/research/dss/default.htm] on
