Institutional discovery systems
The University of Wisconsin – Madison has made available its report about
institutional discovery services [pdf
[https://staff.library.wisc.edu/
QOTD: All the news that is fit to print ....
All the news that is fit to print is not enough any more …. From the Yahoo!
developer network blog.
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Google and virtual bookshelf
SEO by the Sea wonders about Google’s plans for what it calls a ‘virtual
bookshelf site’. It presents a
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Long Room Hub
The picture selected to accompany Robert Darnton’s article
[https://www.nybooks.com/articles/21514] about research libraries in the
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Googling
Often when people talk about Google it is as if it is something stable. But
things are always moving on.
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Workflow is an intermediate consumer
I have been using the following contrast in presentations for a while. This is
to make a distinction between library
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RLUK
RLUK (Research Libraries UK) is where research libraries in the UK address
shared issues.
The organization has a new name
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Mobile access again
My colleague Bruce Washburn sent me a note prompted by the mention
[https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001643.html]
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Mobile access
I was interested to come across the provision for mobile access at NCSU
Libraries.
Here is the library page. Given
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A decade of books
The literary festival at Hay-on-Wye
[https://www.hayfestival.com/wales/default.aspx] is in mid-flow. For unfamiliar
readers, Hay [https:
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Consistent access to French archives and manuscripts
Calames [https://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/] is a recently released catalog of
archives and manuscripts in French universities and