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Over the last year, Günter and Ricky have been examining models of collaboration across the cultural heritage community, working with RLG partners to identify the most significant obstacles and incentives …
Read MoreNicola Wright, Information Services Manager at the London School of Economics and a fellow of the RLG Shared Print Working Group, shared some good news this morning: the UK Research …
Read MoreLike many of my multi-tasking Programs colleagues, I use a variety of online notebooks, bookmarking and citation management tools to keep track of documents and references related to ongoing projects. …
Read MoreThe most thought-provoking presentation I attended at ALA Annual was given by Candi Yano, a professor of operations research at UC Berkeley. Yano was reporting to the ALCTS Chief Collection …
Read MoreThe new issue of Ariadne includes an article by Tracey Stanley on the University of Leed’s EVIE (Embedding a VRE in an Institutional Environment) project, which bears a certain resemblance to …
Read MoreOCLC recently updated the WorldCat.org service with some new features, including a tool that automatically generates pre-formatted citations in a variety of styles. We used to have something similar in …
Read MoreRichard Johnson, formerly of SPARC and now a special consultant to ARL, has written a useful article on mass digitization partnerships that summarizes some of the key concerns of research …
Read MoreAnne’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 …
Read MoreBarrie Howard, over at DLF, recently did us a good turn by helping to distribute a short survey that we compiled as part of our session on “Mass Digitization and …
Read More.. . . another high-flying digitization effort: Alouette Canada. The project, which officially launched in June 2006, recently gained a project director, the affable Mr. Brian Bell, former chair of …
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