Books

The Arts and Letters Daily [https://aldaily.com/] service from the Chronicle is very useful. It cries out for an

I have just had occasion to reread Walter Benjamin’s essay Unpacking my library. It is full of memorable lines

The useful Newscan Daily service includes a section Honorary Subscriber where they discuss a person of interest. The current issue

I recently came across this online Festschrift for Wendy Lougee, marking her departure from Michigan. > Digital libraries : a vision

The BBC held a Top Screen Scientist Vote [https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/scientists/] and the results are in.

Ross Mayfield summarises current discussions about the ‘trustworthiness’ of Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page]. > Which brings

A very nice roundup of news and progress reports in the inaugural issue of UKOLN focus [https://www.ukoln.ac.

Steve Gillmor makes an interesting observation about the uptake of RSS. I wonder what proportion of readers of popular blogs

A SOAP Opera [https://asoapopera.blogspot.com/] is an “An e-business novel about Web Services & Service Oriented Architectures”. Unfortunately,

An article in today’s New York Times (free registration) talks about how academic libraries are developing as group learning

People who see FictionFinder [https://fictionfinder.oclc.org/] occasionally say that it is a public library application. In this context

Next Wednesday is the centenary of the fictional day on which Joyce’s Ulysses is set. There are various events