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Author: John MacColl

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Ce n’est qu’un au revoir

May 26, 2011 - by John MacColl - 1 Comment

The Main Library of the University of St Andrews closed yesterday for a four-month period of intensive refurbishment. Most of the Library’s staff had already been distributed to other locations …

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Miscellaneous

Libraries and reorganisations

April 15, 2011 - by John MacColl

Lorcan Dempsey has often pointed out that a university library is the creature of its parent institution. This is most certainly true, and is a reason why – though we …

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Miscellaneous

What does it feel like to be [your library name here]?

March 18, 2011March 18, 2011 - by John MacColl

It’s now around six weeks since I swapped the bird’s-eye view of the research library sector internationally, which I had as a member of the staff of OCLC Research, for …

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Archives and Special Collections / Digital Preservation / Research Library Partnership / Supporting Scholarship

Research dissemination and ‘the archive’

April 26, 2010October 12, 2020 - by John MacColl - 1 Comment

Ithaka S+R recently published its Faculty Survey 2009: Key Strategic Insights for Libraries, Publishers, and Societies. It considers the way faculty views of the library are changing, and analyses library …

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Libraries Archives and Museums

All futured out: UK public funding and risks to libraries

March 30, 2010October 12, 2020 - by John MacColl

The future, it seems, has never been as popular as it as at the present time. We talk, think and write about it endlessly. The transformations in the world we …

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Research support / Supporting Scholarship

Scholarly content and the cliff edge: the place of subject ‘repositories’

February 5, 2010October 12, 2020 - by John MacColl - 2 Comments.

The famous (and famously reclusive) author J.D. Salinger died on 27 January this year, two days after the anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns – a day which is …

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Libraries / Supporting Scholarship

Libraries and research excellence

January 14, 2010September 3, 2020 - by John MacColl

Last month I mentioned the publication of A comparative review of research assessment regimes in five countries and the role of libraries in the research assessment process, which had been …

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Libraries / Measurement and Behaviors / Modeling new services / Supporting Scholarship

National systems of research assessment and implications for libraries

December 22, 2009September 3, 2020 - by John MacColl

Research assessment is a very big deal in some countries. Countries whose university systems are largely publicly-funded routinely check up on the research quality of individual universities to ensure that …

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Libraries / Measurement and Behaviors / Modeling new services / Supporting Scholarship

Climate change for libraries

November 30, 2009September 3, 2020 - by John MacColl - 1 Comment

At the RLG Partnership Annual Meeting in 2007, Timothy Burke told the assembled research librarians ‘you have to figure out how to be hydraulic engineers of information flow rather than …

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Measurement and Behaviors / Supporting Scholarship

Mendeley scrobbles your papers

September 24, 2009September 24, 2009 - by John MacColl - 10 Comments.

Mendeley is a social web application for academic authors that has been receiving quite a lot of attention recently. Victor Keegan wrote about it in The Guardian last week, likening …

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