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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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
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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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Collection Haiku
Dennis Massie has a nice post [https://hangingtogether.org/?p=320] over on
HangingTogether. A set of Haiku about collections
A bridge between town and gown
I gave a presentation in the Martin Luther King Jr Library in San Jose during
the week. As many readers
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The collective print collection
We have just made available a report on shared storage facilities and the future
of print collections as part of
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HBR interviews LB of the BL
Well, this must be a first! The current issue of the Harvard Business Review carries an interview with Lynne Brindley,
Book Review: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland
Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000.
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Whither the academic library ...
A more than usually interesting set of powerpoints is available from the
Sustaining the Digital Library : Symposium, 13-14 September 2007,
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The special web
Quantity has a quality all its own. A focus on quality is one reason that
libraries, archives and museums have
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Processes and repositories
I find it convenient to think about current library systems activities in terms
of support for three materials workflows: bought/
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Memory: curated
Major ‘memory organizations’ face significant challenges as the volume and
variety of what is within their potential remit to collect
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