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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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
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Circulation and the collective collection again
I stumbled upon the pages at Swarthmore College Library devoted to WH Auden’s
spell as a teacher there earlier
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Library systems market
Prompted by Andrew Pace’s comments on the ILS a while ago, I noted
[https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/
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Research Reserve
I mentioned below that I attended a meeting which discussed the UK Research
Reserve (UKRR) last week (see UK Research
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The record and authority
One function of libraries is to preserve the scholarly and cultural record. This
is a rather diffuse goal, for which
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Two buildings
I spoke last Friday at Numérique et bibliothèques : le deuxième choc a conference at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, at
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QOTD: the opportunity cost of storing print journals
More on library space:
> Low-use journals taking up shelf space have become one of the top three concerns
for
The book as platform
I was reading Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities
[https://worldcat.org/oclc/71266698] on a flight home the other day.
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Knowledge and health
The UK magazine Update recently carried a story on how health information
provision is being coordinated in the UK National
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Discovery, delivery, distributed inventory management
Resource discovery has been a focus of much attention in recent years.
Once discovery opportunities are provided, a focus on
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Chicago: a gallimaufry of observations
Light posting this week as we spent Thanksgiving and a couple of additional days
in Chicago. Here are some vaguely
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Research library symposium
Transcripts and audio recordings of the proceedings of the Research Library in
the 21st Century Symposium [https://www.lib.utexas.
