Social reading
It seems to me I have heard the phrase ‘social reading’ more often recently.
That said, it also seems to
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Collections are library assets
Business school writing
I quite like using the word ‘assets’ with reference to library collections. We tend to think of
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The ILS, the digital library and the research library
Job adverts are interesting for a variety of reasons. They give a sense of skills and attributes in demand. They say something about how the hiring institution wants to present itself. And they can indicate trends.
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Preserving musical heritage ...
One of the casualties of the London riots last week was a Sony distribution
warehouse.
> The building, owned by
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Nostalgia, the Dublin Irish Festival, and variant forms of names
The Dublin Irish Festival is on this weekend – Dublin, Ohio, that is. I notice that Moya Brennan is performing.
As
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Worldcat Identities Network: a 'mashup'
There has been some nice reaction to the Worldcat Identities Network
[https://www.oclc.org/research/news/2011-07-28.htm].
[https:
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Gamification: services and libraries
I have been interested to see more notes in my tweetstream about peoples’
exercise or diet regimes. They are typically
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Spotify and Klout: fungible influence
Popular music streaming service Spotify has just launched in the US. For some
background see the Ars Technica story
[https:
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Some quotes: sizing the academic library ...
A couple of years ago Ross Housewright of Ithaka S+R published an article about
the future of academic libraries.
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Hamster wheeling ....
I have found the expression ‘hamster wheeling’ useful over the last few years. I
tend to use it in the
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Books, artifactually and anecdotally speaking ...
Artifacts
Anecdotally speaking ……. it seems to me that the artifactual and design elements
of print books are coming more to
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Effective web presence ...
We are growing used to the idea that simply making things available on the web
does not necessarily make them
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