Efficiency and scholarly information practices
There is a good article* in the most recent issue of JASIS&T by a group of Canadian scholars who challenge James Evans’ controversial claim that the increase in online availability …
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Network Infrastructure for Shared Print Collections
At the ALA Midwinter conference last week, I had the opportunity to talk with several groups about some work that OCLC Research has taken up in the area of distributed …
Read MoreMoving library services into research-flows
I’m pleased to announce the publication of the latest title in our series of white papers, an expert literature review on disciplinary research behaviors that we commissioned from Carole Palmer, …
Read MorePrint preservation and peer review: a narrowing prospective?
[Here’s a bit of half-baked blog fodder I thought had been published months ago. It seems newly relevant, so rather than discard it, I thought I’d put it out for …
Read MoreManaging Risk: Print Journal Collections
In a prior post on risk assessment and print preservation, I remarked on the need for some community-wide effort to define collective preservation goals and requirements: Given unrelenting space pressures …
Read MoreLate summer harvest: fallen fruit
A map to fallen fruit in Sherman Oaks, CA. I have often heard colleagues in the library community describe JSTOR print back files as ‘low-hanging fruit’ for distributed print archiving …
Read MoreBenchmarking Network Performance: Measures and Behaviors
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 MoreShared Print Collections: the UK (re)invests
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 …
Read MoreNetworking Personal Collections: Portable Bibliographies
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. …
Read MoreSafety in Numbers? Calculating Optimal Overlap for Print Preservation
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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