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A Timely Debate: Whither (or wither) Academic Libraries?

September 28, 2009 - by Ricky Erway - 8 Comments.

An RLG working group is writing a manifesto for academic libraries, addressing the need for change to better support research. The recent clamor over Dan Greenstein’s intentionally provocative remarks about …

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Europe / Measurement and Behaviors / Supporting Scholarship

Mendeley scrobbles your papers

September 24, 2009September 24, 2009 - by John MacColl - 10 Comments.

Mendeley is a social web application for academic authors that has been receiving quite a lot of attention recently. Victor Keegan wrote about it in The Guardian last week, likening …

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Clarification on OCLC/OAIster Transfer

September 23, 2009 - by Roy Tennant - 7 Comments.

Earlier in the week I posted “The Straight Dope on OAIster” in an effort to bring the OAI community up to date on the transition of this service from the …

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Architecture and Standards / Libraries / Libraries, Archives, Museums (LAM) / Modeling new services / Searching / Supporting Scholarship

The Straight Dope on OAIster

September 21, 2009September 21, 2009 - by Roy Tennant - 12 Comments.

As many of you are probably aware, OCLC and the University of Michigan announced last January that OCLC was taking over the OAIster aggregation of metadata harvested from OAI-compliant repositories. …

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Europe / Libraries

Edinburgh University Library comes full circle

September 16, 2009September 16, 2009 - by John MacColl

I was invited back to Edinburgh University Library last Thursday to attend the launch event for the opening of the refurbished Ground Floor – part of a long renovation project …

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Archives and Special Collections / Libraries / Libraries, Archives, Museums (LAM) / Modeling new services / Museums / Renovating Descriptive Practice

Crowdsourcing Lessons

September 14, 2009 - by Roy Tennant - 1 Comment

The Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, more RLG Partners and others have participated in the Flickr Commons, all to try to leverage what’s become known as “crowdsourcing” — “the …

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Libraries / Modeling new services

What Library Administrators Need to Know About Technology

September 12, 2009 - by Roy Tennant - 2 Comments.

I blog in several places, almost as if I had never heard of the dangers of diluting one’s “brand”. But whatever, I’m already spread out and now I have to …

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