Who is Number One at Christmas?
The excitement I remember when I was young as we awaited the announcement of the Christmas singles chart has been easily surpassed this year on university campuses. The RAE results …
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Reputation, Refutation, Concentration
Reputation in the university sector has never had a higher premium than at the present time, as the world’s universities compete with each other more overtly and more globally than …
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Complementing RIN
The UK’s Research Information Network (RIN) has just published a document aimed at UK university Vice Chancellors, Presidents and Principals, Ensuring a bright future for research libraries. Jim Michalko, Lorcan …
Read MoreThe Google Book Search settlement – a summary
Our colleague, Arnold Arcolio, entertained himself by reading over the actual Google settlement documents. I thought you’d welcome this thoughtful summary. Share your thoughts on whether his understanding is correct …
Read MoreThe repository that isn’t there
Several European countries have moved in the direction of a national architecture for research information management. They do this for several reasons. One is because of the need to have …
Read MoreA league table of journals
The Australian government is revising its research assessment system, and is in the process of setting up ERA, Excellence in Research for Australia. This new system was an early commitment …
Read MoreLIBER, Equality, Fraternization
This year’s annual LIBER conference was held in Istanbul’s Koç University – a private university on the outskirts of the city. Ricky and I attended, and joined European librarians in …
Read MoreNetworking Personal Collections: Portable Bibliographies
Like many of my multi-tasking Programs colleagues, I use a variety of online notebooks, bookmarking and citation management tools to keep track of documents and references related to ongoing projects. …
Read MoreWe paid for it
As mentioned earlier I spoke at a workshop on technical services for law library directors at the AALL annual meeting yesterday. I appreciated the invitation particularly since I’d spoken there …
Read MoreA role for ‘Libraries of the Future’ in the UK: digitisation via research-based learning
The Guardian newspaper in the UK has today published an education supplement devoted to JISC’s ‘Libraries of the Future’ theme. This reflects excellent communications work by JISC, whose Annual Conference …
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