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Benchmarking Network Performance: Measures and Behaviors

July 24, 2008September 19, 2014 - by Constance Malpas

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 …

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Collective Collections / Systemwide Organization

Shared Print Collections: the UK (re)invests

July 17, 2008September 19, 2014 - by Constance Malpas

Nicola 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 …

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Supporting Scholarship / Systemwide Organization

Networking Personal Collections: Portable Bibliographies

July 16, 2008September 19, 2014 - by Constance Malpas - 2 Comments.

Like 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. …

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Collective Collections / Systemwide Organization

Safety in Numbers? Calculating Optimal Overlap for Print Preservation

July 8, 2008September 19, 2014 - by Constance Malpas - 1 Comment

The 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 …

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Supporting Scholarship / Systemwide Organization

All about EVIE

May 17, 2007September 19, 2014 - by Constance Malpas - 1 Comment

The 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 …

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Libraries / Modeling new services / Supporting Scholarship / Systemwide Organization

Personal lists and predatory birds

February 16, 2007September 19, 2014 - by Constance Malpas - 1 Comment

OCLC 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 …

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Collective Collections / Systemwide Organization

Functional Requirements for a Global Digital Library?

February 7, 2007September 18, 2020 - by Constance Malpas

Richard 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 …

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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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Collective Collections / Systemwide Organization

Mass Digitization and the Collective Collection

October 30, 2006September 19, 2014 - by Constance Malpas - 2 Comments.

Barrie 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 …

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Collective Collections / Libraries Archives and Museums

It’s a bird, it’s a satellite, it’s …

October 23, 2006October 23, 2006 - by Constance Malpas - 1 Comment

.. . . 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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