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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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
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Serving network people
[https://www.agnic.org/agnic]A few months ago I was pleased to give a short
presentation [ppt
[https://www.
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Value and impact
The LASER Foundation [https://www.bl.uk/concord/laser-about.html] commissioned a
report [pdf [https://www.bl.uk/about/cooperation/
That Reading Room again
More [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000718.html] about the The British
Museum Reading Room, which was until recently
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The network and the library
Libraries have always been nodes in networks. They have managed flows of
materials into those nodes from a range of
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Libraries, maps and platforms
[/lorcand/lorcan/mcarthysmap_1.png]Thom
[https://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2005/06/more_loosely_co.html] previews
Mike Teets’
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To integrate, disintegrate
I liked this characterization
[https://www.biblioacid.org/2005/06/la_lita_librari.html] of Eric Lease Morgan’s
Top
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The record
I was interested to see a link to a story about Stanford on the Sun website:
Building a digital library:
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Standardising library processes
A colleague pointed me to Thomas Davenport’s article in the current Harvard
Business Review (June 2005. pp 101-108): The
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Digital Delft
From the 2003 Annual Report of the TU Delft Library
[https://www.library.tudelft.nl/]:
> At the TU Delft
Balancing act
Anne Wolpert characterizes the current situation of research libraries:
> In describing the state of the MIT Libraries in the
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93 people want to start using the library ..
[https://www.43things.com/]This is one of the things that is among these
people’s 43 things [https://www.
