Research Reserve
I mentioned below that I attended a meeting which discussed the UK Research
Reserve (UKRR) last week (see UK Research
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The record and authority
One function of libraries is to preserve the scholarly and cultural record. This
is a rather diffuse goal, for which
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Future of bibliographic control
I am a member of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
[https://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/] convened
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QOTD: hiding things on the library website
Libraries struggle with how to present multiple digital materials on their
websites. Here is The Oldie [https://www.theoldie.co.
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Two buildings
I spoke last Friday at Numérique et bibliothèques : le deuxième choc a conference at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, at
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QOTD: the opportunity cost of storing print journals
More on library space:
> Low-use journals taking up shelf space have become one of the top three concerns
for
The book as platform
I was reading Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities
[https://worldcat.org/oclc/71266698] on a flight home the other day.
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Knowledge and health
The UK magazine Update recently carried a story on how health information
provision is being coordinated in the UK National
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A couple of reports
A couple of relevant reports have just come over the horizon …..
1. First, from the Research Information Network in the
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Discovery, delivery, distributed inventory management
Resource discovery has been a focus of much attention in recent years.
Once discovery opportunities are provided, a focus on
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Managing citations and references
My 11 year old daughter was doing a project recently for which she had to do a
bibliography. I was
