Life as it is lived
A report on the use of information and communications technologies among
prospective university students was commissioned by JISC from Ipsos
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Discovery happens elsewhere, again
The decision by the New York Times to open up for general reading the formerly
for-fee TimeSelect parts of its
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Metadata creation
“One of the main issues facing libraries as they work to create richer user
services is the complexity of their
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The amplified conference, again
Following my remarks about the ‘amplified conference‘ the other day, I was interested to read this from Andy Powell:
A
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Subject and genre clouds
Worldcat Identities now has subject clouds. These are based on FAST
[https://www.oclc.org/research/projects/fast/default.htm]
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Discovery happens elsewhere
You no longer need to come to the library to discover library resources. And the library is makings its resources discoverable in the flow of its users' network lives.
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Knowing about libraries and services in the network
I bought the following book in the congenial City Newstand
[https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&um=1&
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QOTD: pensions and open access
One of the features of the open access discussion in recent years has been the
collection of significant reports authored
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Nobody got fired for buying IBM ....
> I’m not saying, of course, that elite colleges have evolved to prey upon the
weaknesses of large organizations
Ambient fulfilment and on-demand space
The iPod link with Starbucks has had a mixed reception. I thought that it was intriguing as one of those
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And speaking of value ...
I quoted Eleanor Jo Rodger a while ago in these pages
[https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000580.html]:
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