Yet another public library perceptions report
A Research study of 14-35 year olds for the future development of public
libraries [pdf
[https://www.mla.gov.uk/
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Latest posts (Page 87)
A learning experience
We have just come back from seeing X-Men: the last stand
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376994/] at the very
Good relations ...
I suggested below that we think about catalog – or other search system –
features in terms of rank, relate, and recommend
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Obscure Shakespearean gems
For Prospero, his library was dukedom enough. I verified this through a search
of The Tempest on Google Book Search
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Guardian on the web
An interesting note on the UK Guardian newspaper:
> We have come to one of those forks in the road
Registries, research and jobs
A colleague drew my attention to an advert for a Bioinformatics Curator at the
University of Manchester, which interestingly touched
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Does it exist?
abebooks.co.uk [https://abebooks.co.uk] has an advert in the current London
Review of Books. It suggests that
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ISBNs: an interesting data point
About a third of the print books in WorldCat have ISBNs.
Brian Lavoie provided me with this number based on
Blog search and intentional data
I have been using the (related) blog search systems from ask.com
[https://www.ask.com/?o=312#subject:bls|
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Federated search that doesn't very well
I have written quite a bit in these pages about metasearch (see list of related
entries below). In some recent
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The owl of Minerva
The home page of the Rush Rhees library [https://www.lib.rochester.edu/] at the
University of Rochester displays a
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RLG and OCLC
Many years ago, my wife Ann worked as a cataloguer on the small team at The
British Library creating the
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