The institution and the network ... a question of scale
I was interested to come across this passage in a presentation [ppt
[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/Library-Strategy-Final.ppt]
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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
422 postsThe library network and the scholarly record
The library community is a highly interconnected one. Networks are motivated
both by library mission and effective management of resources.
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There is more to discovery than you think
Colleagues at the University of Minnesota have produced another must-read report on the discoverability of library resources [Splash page, PDF]
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The service turn ...
A while ago I spent some time looking through the institution profiles collected by ARL. One of the themes I
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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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Evolving 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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