The anxiety of influence
[https://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2007/02/worldcat_identi.html]We are
lucky to live a short walk from the
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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
421 postsSelf disclosure
In several venues recently I have suggested that it would be useful to do some
content analysis on various documents
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NFX: Weinberger interviews O'Reilly
David Weinberger has a nice hotel lobby interview
[https://fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/08/interview-with-tim-oreilly/] with Tim
O’Reilly on
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It's a small(ish) world
George Bernard Shaw is famously said to have said that England and America were
countries separated by a common language
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Groups: Deff report
The role of the ‘group’ level in library matters is an interesting one, and one
which – it seems to me
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Tundish, maps and emergent knowledge
There is a famous passage in A portrait of the artist as a young man where Stephen Dedalus is talking
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ERAMS
One of the more interesting discussions I had at ALA was with Martha Whittaker
of Serials Solutions. She was talking
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Nelsonville catalog
Mentioning [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001242.html] Koha the other
day reminded me that I have used the
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Justifying your place on the shelves
The Washington Post is carrying a story on collection development at Fairfax
County Public Library [https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/
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Emergent knowledge and intentional data
I have written about ‘intentional’ data on and off, data recording user
preferences or choices. Such data has a variety
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Library history
If you have $495
[https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-History-Libraries-Britain-Ireland/dp/0521858089/ref=ed_oe_h/102-1178467-2130545]
to spend, or £261.
London displayed
The British Library has an exhibition on London and its maps. There is a ‘curator’s blog’. And there I
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