Boffyflow and spike
Peter Binkley has a thoughtful post on libraries and Second Life, which could be
generalized to a variety of environments.
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Chicago: a gallimaufry of observations
Light posting this week as we spent Thanksgiving and a couple of additional days
in Chicago. Here are some vaguely
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QOTD: Reeling and writhing
From William Gibson’s blog:
> I would add that talented writers begin as talent readers, though I’ve scarcely
Data curation
Chris Rusbridge is the Director of the Digital Curation Centre at the University
of Edinburgh. About the DCC:
> Scientists,
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Business mashups
Business Week had an article on business mashups a few days ago. Here is one of
their smaller examples.
>
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Research library symposium
Transcripts and audio recordings of the proceedings of the Research Library in
the 21st Century Symposium [https://www.lib.utexas.
Upliftment
I stumbled across the London Speaker Bureau
[https://www.londonspeakerbureau.co.uk/default.aspx] just now. A pretty
impressive roster
Children's book week ...
To mark Children’s Book Week folks here at OCLC are talking about children’s
books that mean something to
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Web services
I have a short article [https://www.oclc.org/nextspace/004/research.htm] about
web services and some of the
Library systems world
It is surprising to me that there is not more discussion in the library
community about the structure of the
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The Browne Issue System and the reordering of experience
I was looking for a description of the Browne Issue System because I wanted to do an entry about it
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