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A Map to Destinations Uncrawled

July 18, 2008September 9, 2020 - by Roy Tennant - 4 Comments.

As part of what we’re trying to accomplish in the “Modeling New Service Infrastructures” part of the RLG Work Agenda, I’ve been working on a white paper on best practices …

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Libraries Archives and Museums / Searching

The Quest for the Single, Simple, Successful Search

April 22, 2008 - by Ricky Erway - 3 Comments.

Yes, for most people the Grail is Google. For many of us in the library world (even for some library users) it’s WorldCat. But there are apparently still numerous quests …

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Renovating Descriptive Practice / Searching

More on Flickr

April 10, 2008 - by Merrilee Proffitt

A few more Flickr related things: The Boston Public Library has posted photos to Flickr. Like Library of Congress, the collections are open to commentary and tags, although initially they …

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Flickr inaugurates “The Commons” with Library of Congress collections

January 17, 2008 - by Günter Waibel - 4 Comments.

Flickr and the Library of Congress just announced a prototype which will bring 1,500 or 3,000 photographs (depending on whether you believe the Flickr or the LC blog) from two …

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Browsing audio

December 10, 2007 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

Recently I realized that I’m spending almost as much time in “professional listening” as I am doing “professional reading”. So many interviews, Webcasts, TED talks, Google Tech Talks, and the …

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Visual reminder

July 2, 2007 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 1 Comment

A visual reminder of how many places we have to search. sputtr.com Far from complete. WorldCat.org, LibraryThing, etc. are not even on the list. Merrilee ProffittMerrilee Proffitt is Senior Manager …

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Books are objects too

May 20, 2007September 18, 2020 - by Jim Michalko - 2 Comments.

Lorcan recently brought my attention to a conference where he will be speaking. It’s the mid-term meeting of LIBER where they will have a think tank on the future value …

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Libraries / Measurement and Behaviors / Searching

A wonderful specimen of a user!

March 9, 2007 - by Günter Waibel - 2 Comments.

We’re always on the look-out for this mystical creature called “the user,” and I am exited to report a public sighting: for a good hour during the Bibliographic Control Working …

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Search in 2017

February 27, 2007 - by Merrilee Proffitt

On Friday, I attended the long-running “Friday afternoon seminar,” (also known as the “Buckland-Larson-Lynch seminar,” also known by its formal course title…) at UC Berkeley. The seminar is available through …

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Collective Collections / Searching / Systemwide Organization

Rediscovering “It” Online

November 14, 2006September 19, 2014 - by Constance Malpas - 1 Comment

Anne’s posting prompts me to recall a favorite book from my own childhood: Edith Nesbit’s Five Children and It (1902), in which a group of young Londoners, exiled to the …

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