Shared Library Systems and Services, Part 1
As part of the Library Systems Programme, two reports have been published exploring the potential for shared library systems across Universities in both Scotland and Wales. In the first of two posts I...
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Mobile discovery: don’t retro-fit; invent!
The following is a version of an article that was printed in the March edition of Cilip Update. When confronted with new technologies we often fail, early in their existence, to exploit the...
View ArticleLibrary Systems Workshop
On Monday this week the Library Systems Programme held a one-day workshop in London. I’ll talk more about some of the things that cam out of the workshop in later posts – for now I just wanted to share...
View ArticleServices to support UK repositories
In the UK, the repository network is well established, and supports access to research papers and other digital assets created within universities. Increasingly, repositories are part of a research...
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Performance and Measurement in Libraries
In his article in the New York Times, Robert Crease wrote: We look away from what we are measuring, and why we are measuring, and fixate on the measuring itself. For libraries, so used to collecting,...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Open Source for Libraries
The following post appeared as a question and answer piece in the August edition of the Cilip Update magazine What are the main benefits to the library of adopting open source? There are some well...
View ArticleThe value and impact of the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)
Jisc[i] in partnership with NERC[ii] have commissioned work to examine the value of impact of the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC). Charles Beagrie Ltd, the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies...
View ArticleResearch Data Sharing without barriers…get involved?
Research Data Alliance (RDA) – second plenary meeting – Washington DC – 16th – 18th September. Many readers of this blog will know about the Research Data Alliance already, but there will, I guess also...
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Blogging the ebooks landscape
Over the next few weeks we plan to blog a series of posts covering some of the main topics surround the creation, curation and consumption of ebooks in teaching, learning and research. There’s little...
View ArticleSome reflections on the Berlin 11 conference, Berlin November 2013.
The following are some things I particularly noticed at the Berlin 11 open access conference, which I attended earlier this week, with apologies for any misunderstandings, misattributions or...
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