Calgary Central Library: combining intimacy and civic statement
The Calgary central library was on first impression the finest public building I have been in for years.
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UX
Broadly construed .. how we experience systems, services and interfaces.
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The decentered library network presence
The library does not have a singular network presence. There may be a main website, but the library also syndicates its presence to other venues (e.g. RSS), has unbundled to social sites (e.g. Facebook), and sources activity in the cloud (e.g. LibGuides).
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Full library discovery
The collection remains central to the library experience. However, as library services evolve beyond the collection so it makes sense for discovery services to represent more of what the library does and can provide - to move from 'full collection discovery' to 'full library discovery.'
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Two things prompted by a new website: space as a service and full library discovery
Drawn by a Tweet I looked at Stanford's very nice new library website just now. I only spent a few
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Worldcat Identities Network: a 'mashup'
There has been some nice reaction to the Worldcat Identities Network
[https://www.oclc.org/research/news/2011-07-28.htm].
[https:
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Gamification: services and libraries
I have been interested to see more notes in my tweetstream about peoples’
exercise or diet regimes. They are typically
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Books, artifactually and anecdotally speaking ...
Artifacts
Anecdotally speaking ……. it seems to me that the artifactual and design elements
of print books are coming more to
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Effective web presence ...
We are growing used to the idea that simply making things available on the web
does not necessarily make them
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Academic reputation enhancement ... redux
Two things prompted this note ….
First, there is an interesting report in the current issue of Nature on the
‘online
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Decentred network presence
We still tend to think of the website as the focus of institutional presence on
the network. And, often, mobile
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The amplified event
We now amplify conferences - combining various engagement options for people who are not present face to face at the event. Physical presence is increasingly seen as one mode only of participation.
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Buying books and/or experiences: a consumer view
A while ago I was interested to observe that I had begun to resist buying paperback novels. Before that, I
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