Never mind the quality, feel the width
[https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/]What should an excellent research
library look like in 2015? Indeed, what would it
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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
421 postsiPods, platforms and ecosystems
There is an interesting article in Forbes suggesting that the closed approach
that Apple is taking with iTunes and the
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GLAM people
Some years ago, I worked with a group assembled by the relevant part of the European Commission to work on
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The British Library
We visited the British Library on our recent trip — as tourists. We were reminded of what a good public space it has become. The building, the subject of much critical attention when it finally emerged from construction, works as a public building.
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Pause
I note that the Google Print Library program is being paused. It will be
interesting to see what happens next:
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Library logistics (again)
I have suggested in these pages
[https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000487.html] that logistics is a central
part
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New look
[https://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/087584863X]Check out the new look
interface to Find in a library.
See, for example,
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Libraries and the public sphere
For Habermas, the public sphere is the arena in which public opinion is formed,
independent of economic or government influence.
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The collective collection
There is an interesting piece
[https://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2005/julaug/lees.htm]
in the current
Moving up the value chain
I have just spent some time at home in Ireland, a country which has changed
enormously in the last fifteen
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Relatively available at the point of need
Tony Hey [https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ajgh/] who has been overseeing the
development of the UK e-science core
Groningen thoughts
The LIBER 34th Annual Conference in Groningen was a congenial event in an engaging city. LIBER, for those unfamiliar with
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