Small notes on variably sized conferences
I withdrew from a commitment to the BCLA conference
[https://www.bcla.bc.ca/2008%20Conference/default.aspx] a couple
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Churnalism: link baiting list of 50 most influential blogs
Today’s Observer has a list of the world’s 50 most powerful blogs
[https://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/
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Engaging academic users in a library service
OCUL [https://www.ocul.on.ca/] (Ontario Council of University Libraries) has
released a nice white paper which discusses issues
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Book search and glanceability
Somebody I was talking to recently mentioned that they liked they way Microsoft
implemented book search [https://books.live.com]
The two ways of Web 2.0
I find Web 2.0 increasingly confusing as a label; no surprise there. This is not
just because of its
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The big resource rich library
Here is the opening paragraph of an article on libraries and the long tail I
wrote a while ago.
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The new BBC
The BBC [https://www.bbc.co.uk] is a major web presence, and many people look to
it for example.
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Mixing open and restricted access materials
Over the Christmas break I read the interesting Global Ireland: same difference
[https://worldcat.org/oclc/183145244]. And, in my
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Blogging and presenting
Blogging has been a bit thin lately – and may continue to be for a few days – as
I have been
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QOTD: "To every scholar the library is a personal realm of secret topography."
Fiona MacCarthy [https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81-12452] has a very nice
article in today’s Guardian about Colin St John
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