Who is the catalog for?
The current discussion about the catalog and its centrality or otherwise prompt
me to repeat a passage from my favorite
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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
422 postsThe user interface that isn't
Increasingly we need to think about library services in the context of the full
web of user experience. This is
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Backstage
Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!: they are all massive data presences on the web. In
various ways, they open up access
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Recombinance all the way up ... remixing all the way down
I have been using recombinance quite a lot in the last year or two to talk about
how network flow
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Just how simple?
So, thinking about some recent posts ….
In the Bosworth presentation [ppt
[https://www.webratio.com/images/20050408Bosworth.pps]] mentioned below
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Search and memory
An interesting post on Ida takes tea [https://blog.educause.edu/catherine] talks
about the use of bookmarking tools – such
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Network-external and network-internal
I have just written the following for other purposes:
> The library community is engaged in a difficult transition: from
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Which environment?
We are used to thinking about the user in the library environment. This will
continue to be important.
A major
On Google Scholar and library instruction
On Google Scholar is one of my more consulted RSS feeds. I like the mix of
useful pointers and light
Off-web and on-web
Andy Powell writes [pdf
[https://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/ie-google/ie-google.pdf]
] about potential points of contact
Library collections viewed systemically
OCLC Research has been doing quite a bit of work on collection analysis in the
last couple of years: mining
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Public libraries in Dublin
Fintan O'Toole has a wonderful essay on the public library in 'The university of the people: celebrating Irish public libraries.' He calls it: "Reading, writing and rebelling: growing up with public libraries".
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