Institutions

Major ‘memory organizations’ face significant challenges as the volume and variety of what is within their potential remit to collect

We use the following collections grid from time to time to help focus attention on particular collecting patterns in libraries.

An interesting report [pdf [https://www.lib.umn.edu/about/scieval/Sci%20Report%20Final.pdf]] from the University of Minnesota

[https://library.open.ac.uk/services/lib20servs/index.cfm]I am attending events in libraries in the UK this week.

“One of the main issues facing libraries as they work to create richer user services is the complexity of their

I quoted Eleanor Jo Rodger a while ago in these pages [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000580.html]: >

In all the discussion about bibliographic data and catalogs, and about their advantages or disadvantages when compared to other approaches,

One of the findings of the custom collection overlap studies we have done is that rareness is common: there are

The current issue of Newsweek discusses a new book on the use of aggregated user data: Super Crunchers: why thinking-by-numbers

I mentioned Jim Collins’ book on the social sectors [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001403.html] the other day.

I was interested to see the Page Tools in the University of Alberta catalogue (look in the left hand bar

Looking through the presentations at the JISC digitisation conference, I was interested to read the following prediction from Peter Kaufman