On demand services ..
I wonder will we see on-demand library systems emerge. I am thinking of services
like salesforce.com [https://www.salesforce.
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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
419 postsThe buzz world
I recently came across Creating Passionate Users
[https://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/], which among other
things has been
Circulating intentional data
I have posted a couple [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000822.html] of
times [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/
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On Beauty and community
[/lorcand/lorcan/annarborpictures.png]I see that On Beauty is for now on top of
the list of ‘hot books’
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Aggregate intentions
I was interested to see the announcement about Ebsco and web services for
bringing together Counter data.
> The wide
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Discover, locate, ... vertical and horizontal integration
Libraries face horizontal and vertical integration challenges as they create more unified information environments. Vertically, they have to integrate supply chains and proceses; horizontally, they have to move between processes.
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Storage and logistics
Optimising storage and access in UK research libraries [pdf
[https://www.curl.ac.uk/about/documents/CURL_BLStorageReportFinal-endSept2005.pdf]
], a
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Space, cost and value
An interesting short article about the University of Chicago building plans:
> The poll of 5,700 students’ library usage
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Country collections
[https://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks/worldmap/prototype.htm]Check out
the WorldMap where we have collected and presented a
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A suite of library blogs
I just landed serendipitously on the Georgia State University page of library
news and blogs [https://www.library.gsu.edu/
Open Content Alliance
The Open Content Alliance has been meeting
[https://ldp.library.jhu.edu/bookworkshop/]. Some of the discussion has been
blogged
Pessimism of the intellect; optimism of the will
Peter Brantley and Dan Chudnov, as reported by Jeremy Frumkin, are concerned about the capacity of libraries to respond in
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