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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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
422 postsA utopian place of criticism
I used two quotes in a (long) article
[https://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlis/models/publications/utopia/] written some time
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Metasearch, google and the rest
How quickly things can change! Last year there were discussions about the
Google-busting potential of metasearch. How naive. This year
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Oregon State University
I tend to look at library strategic plans when they are available on the web.
They are interesting indicators of
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Thinking about metadata collections
Peter Murray [https://www.pandc.org/peter/work/resume.html] [authority record
[https://errol.oclc.org/laf/no2004-9223.html]] left
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Library websites again
The more I look at library websites, the more they do indeed seem to wrap a thin
layer around a
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Pumping up the value
As we move through changes value becomes a critical word. The values of
libraries are important; the value that libraries
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Net generation students and libraries
Joan Lippincott of CNI writes about Net Generation users and libraries in a new
publication:
> What are some of
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The integrated library system that isn't
One can read the phrase Integrated Library System (ILS) in two ways: as a system
for the integrated library, or
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Future of public libraries
The Laser Foundation (in the UK) has been commissioning reports about the public
library system. The latest takes a new
Library collections and services - some pictures
The library co-evolves with the community it serves, and we need to remember
that those communities also change, which in
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