Emergent knowledge and intentional data
I have written about ‘intentional’ data on and off, data recording user
preferences or choices. Such data has a variety
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Library history
If you have $495
[https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-History-Libraries-Britain-Ireland/dp/0521858089/ref=ed_oe_h/102-1178467-2130545]
to spend, or £261.
London displayed
The British Library has an exhibition on London and its maps. There is a ‘curator’s blog’. And there I
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The power of the Google flow
I mentioned [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001199.html] the other day
that of the three blog search engines
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Circulation and the collective collection again
I stumbled upon the pages at Swarthmore College Library devoted to WH Auden’s
spell as a teacher there earlier
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Knights and copyright
The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property [report home page
[https://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/gowers_review_intellectual_property/
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Holiday greetings
Check out our holiday card. Make sure to click on something …..
[https://www.oclc.org/research/holidaycard/default.htm]
Comparing single search environments
Over time I reckon that ‘single search’ will replace ‘metasearch’ for general
article access. This is not to say that
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Google is the environment
The Guardian summarizes:
> Rich Skrenta, co-founder and CEO of Topix.net, is fed up with hearing low
numbers for
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Library systems market
Prompted by Andrew Pace’s comments on the ILS a while ago, I noted
[https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/
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Mass digitization
In preparation for my trip to France recently, I read, in English, Jean-Noël
Jeanneney’s critique of the Google digitization
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Finding fiction
FictionFinder [https://FictionFinder.oclc.org] has been available for quite a
while. Check out the new version [https://fictionfinder.oclc.
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