Rapid Communications

Rapid, but irregular, communications from the frontiers of Library Technology

Monday, July 24, 2006

ResourceShelf: Maps: Weird and Wild in the Parks Map

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ResourceShelf : Maps: Weird and Wild in the Parks Map brings out the latent nationalist in me. The quotation they have selected from the ...
Friday, May 26, 2006

On Academic Silos and a Failure to Communicate

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In today's email alert from Web of Science, I found the following citation: Vidakovic, Jovana, and Milos Rackovic. 2006. Generating cont...
Thursday, April 20, 2006

The Transparent Library

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It's not hard to justify yourself to your funding sources when every single researcher needs to actually walk (or send a grad student) i...
Thursday, March 09, 2006

Stupid Catalogue Tricks

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[Updated to fix link to 'principle of least astonishment'] Like most catalogues, our system provides a basic keyword search box, as ...
Sunday, February 26, 2006

Discovery2Delivery

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Lorcan Dempsey's blog entry on Libraries Australia introduced the buzzword "discovery2delivery" to me (although he first talk...
Thursday, February 23, 2006

Why do Users want Lists?

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Why are users so adamant about being able to browse journal lists that library IT group, and vendors like Serial Solutions and Ex Libris, sp...
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Protocol Design by Committee

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3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP, not to be confused with the "Session Initiation Protocol" used in internet telephony)...
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