Japan – flattening the library culture
Last week I was invited to give a keynote presentation at Keio University in Tokyo (that’s me carrying on about the Long Tail as a preface to discussing mass digitization). …
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Consuming in a pretend universe
Copyright 2005, Linden Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved. At the >play Digital Media conference in Berkeley there were separate panels to choose. I followed the video game people – something …
Read Moreworking in a consolidated universe
In her post about the >play Digital Media conference Anne mentioned the keynote by Shantanu Narayen, COO of Adobe. For me the most interesting thing to contemplate is the likely …
Read MoreUsing up our words…
I attended the Association of Research Libraries membership meeting last week and stayed on for a forum titled Managing Digital Assets: Strategic Issues for Research Libraries that ARL co-sponsored with …
Read Moreand we’re in for the next round
Last night at the launch event for the Open Content Alliance, RLG was announced as a partner. RLG is contributing the RLG Union Catalog as a source for data to …
Read MoreThe future has to start…
Yesterday I participated along with two other RLG colleagues in an invitational day-long workshop sponsored by the Open Content Alliance (OCA) hosted by one of the founding participants The Internet …
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Lat week, I attended an advisory board meeting for the Archivists’ Toolkit project. The AT aims to provide open source software that will help archives of all sizes manage and …
Read MoreShowing up
About a month ago my colleague Günter wrote a post about the way in which our communities interact with industry. He wondered “How do we communicate that the use of …
Read MoreThe more things change…
Today is the last day at RLG for one of the community’s best advocates and long-time leaders. Linda West, who has managed RLG’s Member Programs and Services for nearly a …
Read Morebetter than a red wheel barrow
The receipt of the following haiku was sufficiently serendipitous, satisfying and apt that I want to share it. a blonde girl, wearing a pink skirt, on a blue bike, willed …
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