A Map to Destinations Uncrawled
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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The Quest for the Single, Simple, Successful Search
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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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 …
Read MoreFlickr inaugurates “The Commons” with Library of Congress collections
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 …
Read MoreBrowsing audio
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 …
Read MoreVisual reminder
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 …
Read MoreBooks are objects too
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 …
Read MoreA wonderful specimen of a user!
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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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 …
Read MoreRediscovering “It” Online
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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