The future of media?
As we have been traveling I haven’t been watching a lot of TV, I thought I would
go and
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Walter Benjamin, Dairy Queen and the card catalog
The disappearance of the card catalog evokes nostalgia, resistance or celebration. Reactions are symptomatic of a larger reordering of experience in a network environment.
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Worldcat API
The Worldcat API was released beyond the original trial group while I was away.
> The WorldCat Search API provides
Texting shelf information
I have heard of people photographing catalog results with their cell phones and
heading off to the shelves. And now
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Stuck in the middle ....
Much of our current model of network information and communication behavior is
in the middle ground, it is based on
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Selecting snippets
Her Worldcat Identities [https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80-109150]
page currently appears on the first page of results in a
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Google was here
We live a hundred yards or so off High Street, the historic North-South
thoroughfare in Columbus. In fact, the picture
From GLAM to Columbus
I use GLAM as a category on this blog, standing duty for Galleries, Libraries,
Archives and Museums. We do not
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Metadata crosswalk web service
Metadata crosswalks are becoming more important as more data flows from
application to application. We have been working on this
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Buying books ... sometimes
When I was in Edinburgh recently I spent some time trying to find Dai Smith
[https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84-236441]
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SEO is part of our business
John Wilkin has another nice post, talking about making resources available in
such a way as to make them more
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