Systems

I read the interesting Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings and its supplementary reports

[I first published [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001556.html] this in March 2008, and still find it useful

Reading Concerning E.M. Forster [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317928617] by Frank Kermode, I was reminded of one of

First, a note on a couple of recent media experiences … We went to The boat that rocked [https://www.imdb.

Tony Hirst [https://ouseful.wordpress.com/] has made the interesting observation that an organization’s real home page is the

We got an iMac for family use in the Summer. I never liked the keyboard and the mouse keeps sticking

Our cataloging model revolves around the ‘manifestation’, the particular edition or version of a work that is to be added

There is an interview with Paul McGuinness, manager of U2, in the weekend FT. McGuinness has been an active participant

I have been careful in recent posts about numbers to note that the term ‘book’ has no precise referent. One

We have entered the era of Everything-as-a-service, where lowering transaction costs mean that a growing range of capacities can be

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

I prefer ‘crowdsourced’ to ‘user contributed’ but neither works very well for me. In particular ‘user contributed’ does not seem