The enterprising librarian ...
The entrepreneur
I participated in an interesting event at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC a while
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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
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Collections are library assets
Business school writing
I quite like using the word ‘assets’ with reference to library collections. We tend to think of
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The ILS, the digital library and the research library
Job adverts are interesting for a variety of reasons. They give a sense of skills and attributes in demand. They say something about how the hiring institution wants to present itself. And they can indicate trends.
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Preserving musical heritage ...
One of the casualties of the London riots last week was a Sony distribution
warehouse.
> The building, owned by
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Gamification: services and libraries
I have been interested to see more notes in my tweetstream about peoples’
exercise or diet regimes. They are typically
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Some quotes: sizing the academic library ...
A couple of years ago Ross Housewright of Ithaka S+R published an article about
the future of academic libraries.
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Sourcing and scaling: the University of California
I was interested to see Heather Christenson describe The Hathi Trust as a
collaboratively sourced web scale research library in
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Advocacy: public library as amenity and necessity
Downward pressure on the cost of public services creates issues for public
libraries. A growth in advocacy is a natural
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Lam-inating libraries ... redux
The shared interests between libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) has been an
important line of work
[https://www.oclc.org/
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A small note on sustainability, business models and words ...
Sustainability is an important aspect of digital library initiatives. Partly
because they are often funded by grant or special monies,
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Internal boundary changes .. the library in the institution
It has been interesting in recent years to see how library boundaries within
universities have shifted as relationships with other
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The library building and the library service
Library buildings were built around collections. They are now being reconfigured to be built around experiences.
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