Outside-in and inside-out redux
I have been using this phrase, outside-in and inside-out, to discuss a contrast
in information management practices that is becoming
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Research ∕ Learning
Research and learning behaviors drive academic library change.
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'Reading at Library-scale'/'distant reading'
We are accustomed to a model in which books or other materials are read item by item in a 'close' reading way, at human scale. However, we now see growing interest in distant reading, or reading at collection- or library-scale.
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Reading lists, citation management and bibliographic tissue
Here is something I wrote a couple of years ago under the title Personal
reference collections as digital libraries
[https:
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Research analytics
Analytics is big business. Organizations are increasingly turning to the
analysis of transactional and other data to inform decision-making. Websites
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QR codes again ...
Andy Walsh [https://librarymobiles.blogspot.com/] of the University of
Huddersfield gave a very nice presentation on QR Codes at
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QOTD: "the professional conservatism of professors" ...
I bought the much-noticed The marketplace of ideas: reform and resistance in
the
American university
[https://www.worldcat.org/title/
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Lam-inating libraries ....
The shared interests between libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) is an
important line of work
[https://www.oclc.org/research/
QOTD: a new Alexandria
An interesting article – Toward a new Alexandria: imagining the future of
libraries [https://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/toward-new-alexandria] –
by
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Name, rank and serial number
As authors are recognised as resources to be discovered, managed, ranked, and
tracked, an interest in names and identifiers will
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Scientific publications as social objects ...
The Comprendia Blog has an entry about social networks in the sciences: Are Any
Social Networks for Life Scientists Gaining
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Reputational survey
As university rankings attract more attention and as national/regional policy
discussions continue about whether and how to concentrate research
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Europeana
My colleague Ricky Erway bravely accepted the challenge to talk as an outsider
on the challenges faced by Europeana to
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