Librarian tops poll
OK, I am cheating a little. The Times has produced a list of the greatest
British writers
[https://entertainment.timesonline.
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POTD: Facebook fatigue
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No Facebook – Blessington St, St Kilda
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On the record: report of the LC working group on the future of bibliographic control
The final report of the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
has been submitted and is now
To 'extract, transform and load' or to federate
One of the major questions for library systems is the role of metasearch or
federation. I have written about this
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Web-Scale development: "the data center is the computer"
More computing is happening in the cloud. Personal and corporate applications
are being sourced from network based services. ‘cloud’ is
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Intelligence metadata
An interesting announcement about some metadata standards from the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) which use Dublin
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The less common reader
The condition of reading is in the news. At the same time, Alan Bennett's fictional discussion of the Queen's developing literary taste, The Uncommon Reader, has been published. But are we reading The Uncommon Reader in the right way?
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In the flow - royally
I was pretty interested earlier to come across The Royal Channel, the Official
Channel of the British Monarchy [https://www.
What the reader intends ...
From the ever-suggestive William Gibson ..
> Did Borges ever imagine a library in which we could know which volumes users
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Google Book Search and document understanding
Google Book Search: Document Understanding on a Massive Scale [PDF
[https://www.icdar2007.org/ICDAR2007_KeyNote_LVincent.pdf]] is a
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QOTD: clouds and control
A Wired interviewer asks Nick Carr when does the Big Switch
[https://worldcat.org/oclc/154706854] from the desktop to
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Dame Lynne Brindley
Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, joins Helen Mirren and
Judi Dench as a Dame of the British
