No poor substitute
Since the hangingtogether.org crew hasn’t offered much choice reading in the New Year so far (some of us are nursing colds, some of us are on the road), I thought …
Read MoreTo 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 MoreDigital preservation paradox
Let’s say you are not exactly bullish about digital preservation — you are skeptical about the feasibility of keeping digital items in a useful form into the future. Let’s say …
Read MoreBetterLight, BetterMetadata
On my way back home from work last Thursday, I stopped by the BetterLight headquarters in San Carlos to chat with Mike Collette about his scanning backs and how they …
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 MoreThe Japanese do the verb string
I’m still working through thoughts from my horrendously brief trip to Tokyo and one of my discoveries there connects up with recent posts by Lorcan Dempsey and my colleague Merrilee. …
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, …
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