The personal to global traverse
Network services have accustomed us to move from the personal to the global.
Think of iTunes. I have my own
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Small worlds
I spent a couple of days at Kansas University in congenial Lawrence during the
week. I flew back to Columbus
The union catalogue and collaborative sourcing
The union catalog seems to be experiencing a renaissance of interest, as some advantages of managing data at an aggregate level are appreciated.
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Kindle again
I got hold of a Kindle at work the other day, only for an evening as I had to
pass
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QOTD: a new class of librarians
It is always interesting to read about libraries and librarians when the writer
comes from outside the library environment. I
Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibligraphic Control
The draft final report
[https://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/draft-report.html] of the Working
Group on the Future of
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Reading ... or not?
Is listening to an audiobook ‘reading’?
I remember asking this question at a conference last year and getting some
diversity
Metadata creation again
Reading the report [PDF
[https://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2007-03.pdf]] of the RLG
Programs metadata practice survey,
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Partial disclosure: looking at catalog completeness in UK libraries
I was interested to read the following in a report just released by the Research
Information Network in the UK
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Collection Haiku
Dennis Massie has a nice post [https://hangingtogether.org/?p=320] over on
HangingTogether. A set of Haiku about collections
Some notelets on Facebook and the social graph
Some holiday morning notelets ….
1. The social graph in action. I felt a tremor in the social graph this week.
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