A Map to Destinations Uncrawled
As part of what we’re trying to accomplish in the “Modeling New Service Infrastructures” part of the RLG Work Agenda, I’ve been working on a white paper on best practices …
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As part of what we’re trying to accomplish in the “Modeling New Service Infrastructures” part of the RLG Work Agenda, I’ve been working on a white paper on best practices …
Read MoreYes, for most people the Grail is Google. For many of us in the library world (even for some library users) it’s WorldCat. But there are apparently still numerous quests …
Read MoreA few more Flickr related things: The Boston Public Library has posted photos to Flickr. Like Library of Congress, the collections are open to commentary and tags, although initially they …
Read MoreFlickr and the Library of Congress just announced a prototype which will bring 1,500 or 3,000 photographs (depending on whether you believe the Flickr or the LC blog) from two …
Read MoreRecently I realized that I’m spending almost as much time in “professional listening” as I am doing “professional reading”. So many interviews, Webcasts, TED talks, Google Tech Talks, and the …
Read MoreA visual reminder of how many places we have to search. sputtr.com Far from complete. WorldCat.org, LibraryThing, etc. are not even on the list.
Read MoreLorcan recently brought my attention to a conference where he will be speaking. It’s the mid-term meeting of LIBER where they will have a think tank on the future value …
Read MoreWe’re always on the look-out for this mystical creature called “the user,” and I am exited to report a public sighting: for a good hour during the Bibliographic Control Working …
Read MoreOn Friday, I attended the long-running “Friday afternoon seminar,” (also known as the “Buckland-Larson-Lynch seminar,” also known by its formal course title…) at UC Berkeley. The seminar is available through …
Read MoreAnne’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 …
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