Systems

Major ‘memory organizations’ face significant challenges as the volume and variety of what is within their potential remit to collect

From Seamus Ross’s keynote [PDF [https://www.ecdl2007.org/sross_draft_ECDL_paper.pdf]] at ECDL: > I might

We use the following collections grid from time to time to help focus attention on particular collecting patterns in libraries.

An interesting report [pdf [https://www.lib.umn.edu/about/scieval/Sci%20Report%20Final.pdf]] from the University of Minnesota

It is now conventional to make a distinction between what libraries own (e.g. books, DVDs, …) and what they license

One area where growing interest in identifiers is very clear is that of people, particularly in their role as authors

[https://library.open.ac.uk/services/lib20servs/index.cfm]I am attending events in libraries in the UK this week.

Tony Hirst of the Open University says: > In the days when this blog was dominated by library related concerns,

A quote about URIs: > I propose that a resource and its URI ought to have an intuitive correspondence. …. URIs

I am occasionally asked what was the impact on Worldcat of the addition of the RLG Union Catalog. 52M records

The NSF has set up a blue ribbon panel, with support from Mellon, to explore the economic sustainability of digital

The decision by the New York Times to open up for general reading the formerly for-fee TimeSelect parts of its