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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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
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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.
Library systems world
It is surprising to me that there is not more discussion in the library
community about the structure of the
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The Browne Issue System and the reordering of experience
I was looking for a description of the Browne Issue System because I wanted to do an entry about it
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Metadata ...
Günter has a nice entry [https://hangingtogether.org/?p=152] on metadata and
explores correspondences across the GLAM sectors – libraries,
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All the online people
Collections of personal papers are important areas of interest for libraries and
archives, and for the scholars and students that
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