The Long Tail and the used book market
Work commissioned by the Book Industry Study Group reports that:
> “The real story is the dramatic growth of used
QOTD: Woe is me
Bono interviewed by Oprah:
> I’m not the happiest person, and I’m certainly not happy-clappy. There’s a
Hedgehogs
Dan Chudnov has an interesting post on the mission of the library. What is the
all-consuming mission of the library?
Word clouds
Hey – a site aimed at ‘book-lovers’ and ‘bloggers’. They have about everyone
covered 😉
SnapShirts [https://www.snapshirts.com/index.php]
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A book diversion
[https://www.centerforbookculture.org/dalkey/backlist/obrien.html#policeman]
Flann O’Brien was a man of many [https://errol.oclc.
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A catalog or two (cats and splats)
While on the Evergreen site, I had a look at the developer version of their
catalog.
> A demo of
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Systemwide activities and the long tail
The Pines [https://www.georgialibraries.org/public/pines.html] Evergreen
[https://open-ils.org/] folks make some interesting comments
[https://open-ils.
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Ranganathan and the long tail
[https://www.tamilnadupost.nic.in/phil/stamps_s.htm]Ranganathan
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._R._Ranganathan]‘s five
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Libraries Australia
The National Library of Australia has made a version of its union catalog openly
available on the web (an enhanced
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Coins in union catalogues
I noted with interest the announcement about Coins [https://ocoins.info/] in
COPAC [https://copac.ac.uk/about/], the CURL
Lightweight service composition
Science Library Pad helpfully pulls together
[https://scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/2006/02/jon_udells_libr.html]
and
QOTD: apple and amazon
There is an interesting story in the WSJ about Amazon’s plans to take on Apple
in the music download
