The (Digital) Library Environment: 10 years after
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published.
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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
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Evergreen and Pines
There is a lot of buzz around Evergreen: there is excitement about an open
source integrated library system. There is
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QOTD: a lifted study-storehouse
I mentioned [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001534.html] the other day
that the Times had nominated Philip Larkin,
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Jargon
Library jargon explained
[https://www.swan.ac.uk/lis/HelpAndGuides/LibraryJargon/GlossaryA-L/]: a
resource at Swansea University Library and Information
Library process automation: the ecology of providers
Just as I began to see messages about the publication of Marshall Breeding’s
report on his survey [https://www.
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On the record: report of the LC working group on the future of bibliographic control
The final report of the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
has been submitted and is now
What the reader intends ...
From the ever-suggestive William Gibson ..
> Did Borges ever imagine a library in which we could know which volumes users
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Got a problem? Got an answer?
I was interested to receive a note about the new Pew study [pdf
[https://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/Pew_UI_
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Library strategy at Emory
I find library strategy documents an interesting indicator of trends.
> I do think that looking at how organizations present
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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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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
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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