All about EVIE
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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Personal lists and predatory birds
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 …
Read MoreFunctional Requirements for a Global Digital Library?
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 …
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 …
Read MoreMass Digitization and the Collective Collection
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 …
Read MoreIt’s a bird, it’s a satellite, it’s …
.. . . 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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