The 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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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
421 postsBackstage
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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Aura and digitization
Writing here about the digitization initiatives in the “Google 5” libraries a while ago I referred to aura:
Walter Benjamin
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