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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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
419 postsThe 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.
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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