SeaDragon and Microsoft
If you’ve been to RLG’s Annual Meeting at the Huntington last year, you may remember Blaise Agüera y Arcas – he wooed the crowd with a demonstration of his technology …
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To end the year – the top five
My colleagues, Bruce Washburn and Joe Zeeman, just produced a ranked list of the books in the RLG Union Catalog and shared the top five titles. They are: 1. Dante …
Read MoreRLG Public Services Discussion Group at ALA
At each ALA, RLG sponsors an RLG Public Services Discussion Group. The next meeting of the group will be at ALA Midwinter in San Antonio. This time around, the discussion …
Read MoreHappy 30th Birthday to us!
While I should not have had to be, I was reminded by a colleague that RLG’s official birthday was December 1. RLG was incorporated on December 1, 1975. The innovative …
Read MoreJapan – 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). …
Read MoreWalled Gardens vs. Picket Fences
OK, so I’m a little late learning about “walled gardens.” I heard this term used several times during two recent events – first at the Berkeley Digital Media Conference and …
Read MoreRLG joins Web 2.0, Library 2.0
Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and Talis‘ work in this area have been all the buzz on the blogosphere recently — here and here and here for example. In a small, …
Read Morepod-cast with Jim
Paul Miller just announced that he’ll record a Talking with Talis pod-cast with hangingtogether’s very own Jim Michalko (who incidentally also happens to be the president of RLG.) Paul wants …
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 …
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The Have and Have Nots
Did the headline for this NEDCC announcement make you break into a wry smile? NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER STUDY REVEALS NEED FOR PLANNING TO SUSTAIN DIGITAL COLLECTIONS I think everybody …
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