Institutions

If a book is in a library anywhere in the system, is it 'available' to a member of the public?

I am pleased to note a collaboration between OCLC Research and the Research Information Network [https://www.rin.ac.uk]

From the Preface to Books, buildings and social engineering: > We seek to rescue the historic public library building from

I was in a meeting with a group of folks from research libraries the other week. I was interested in

A recurrent theme of this blog has been that networking changes the way we think about organizational boundaries. So, we

I came across the University of Michigan beta library website [https://beta.lib.umich.edu/] the other day. I thought

I continue to be amazed at how difficult it is to find the name or contact details of the library

The Research Information Network in the UK has released a timely report: Creating catalogues: bibliographic records in a networked world

The new prototype discovery service [https://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/] from the National Library of Australia caused a ripple of

CILIP [https://www.cilip.org.uk] is the UK professional organization for library (and other information) workers. I was interested

A recurrent theme of this blog has been that networking changes the way we think about organizational boundaries. That said,

One of the most interesting things we have seen while in the US is the Serpent Mound in southern Ohio,