"How golden is your retriever?" Maurice Line RIP
My former UKOLN colleague Ruth Burt sent me a note last week noting that Maurice
Line had died. Ann Chapman
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Presenting ....
Although I give quite a few presentations, I don’t really present enough for
them to become ends in themselves.
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Changing communications ....
I was struck by this comment by Om Malik as he talked about the acquisition of
the TechCrunch group of
Sorting out demand again ....
Ask.com announced the demise of Bloglines a while ago. From October 1st the
service will no longer exist. The
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Library literature again ...
Two interventions
First a mention of two recent articles ….
Rick Anderson has a very nice piece in Educause Review about
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The idea of FRBR ...
Not having a copy of The Idea of a university
[https://www.worldcat.org/title/idea-of-a-university/oclc/33103649/editions?referer=
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Newman
And speaking of UCD …. To be a student at University College Dublin was to be very much aware of Cardinal
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Brutalist architecture and libraries
The growth of print collections coincided with the brutalist style in architecture and expanding campuses. You could make a fine calendar with pictures of libraries in the brutalist style.
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Emerging network level management of the collective print collection
One of the recurrent themes in these pages is that systemwide coordination of print materials is necessary as libraries begin
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Information management on campus: CRIS, IR, CERIF, CRM, PIPAL
One of the consequences of our network world is that more and more activities
are ‘informationalized’: they generate data and
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The network reconfigures library space ... mobile redux
So taken was I by William J Mitchell’s comments on the impact of the network and mobile communications on
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Blogging again
Even if some heat has gone out
[https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001989.html] of the library blogosphere,
there
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