Managing down collections ...
I was interested to read this from Karen Schneider a while ago: “Centralized mass storage for legacy print materials (paper-based
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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
418 postsEvolving research life ...
I was interviewed for the British Library’s Growing Knowledge: the evolution of
research [https://www.growingknowledge.bl.uk/Default.
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Brutalist architecture and libraries
The growth of print collections coincided with the brutalist style in architecture and expanding campuses. You could make a fine calendar with pictures of libraries in the brutalist style.
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Emerging network level management of the collective print collection
One of the recurrent themes in these pages is that systemwide coordination of print materials is necessary as libraries begin
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Curating the web ...
A couple of recent events interestingly relate …
First, I read in Search Engine Land
[https://searchengineland.com/srinija-srinivasan-leaves-yahoo-47997] of the
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QR Codes and exhibitions
We spend some time in the very congenial Dayton Art Institute
[https://www.daytonartinstitute.org/] this afternoon. We wandered around
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On the discrimination of curators and curations ....
As existing practices evolve and new ones emerge it often takes time for the way
in which we talk about
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Stitching costs - retread
I am on vacation and traveling this week, and so am taking the opportunity to
air again an entry of
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Discovery layers - Top Tech Trends 2
[No 2 of 3. No 1 here [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002115.html].]
I was pleased to participate
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Mobile .. Top Tech Trends 1
I was pleased to participate in LITA’s Top Tech Trends panel at ALA this year
(see the video
[https:
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The cloud is currently a question, not an answer
I will be on the LITA Top Technology Trends
[https://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/lita/litaevents/annual2010/index.
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Distinctive impact and specialization
In the print era, the cost of interacting with multiple information sources was
high so there were incentives for newspapers
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