When I first joined professional associations (ALIA at first, later ALA and others) ,before I volunteered for things, what I valued most were the publications. At the time I was working in a special library and had acesss to little professional literature.
Over time, as Open Access became more widespread, and volunteering became a more valuable member […]
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The future of associations
Published by March 26th, 2007 in General, Associations and Conferences. 2 CommentsWhen I graduated library school at the end of 1999, I figured I was done with library school. I had a professionally recognised qualification, got a job soon after and that was that. A few years later, I returned to my library school department to complete a research degree, giving me a Masters’ that I […]
Rachel is interested in what non-library blogs people read. I have very few non-library blogs in my reader, as a lot of the non-library material I read are magazines or in print. Although non-library, most of these blogs relate to my job in some way.
RIN team blog: UK blog on research and scholarship models, funding […]
Tim Berners-Lee on Web 2.0, mobile web and GIS
Published by March 20th, 2007 in Library technology. 2 CommentsTwo articles of interest from last week’s Economist Technology Quarterly -
Watching the Web Grow Up - a surprisingly good overview of the Semantic Web, following a reality check for web 2.0:
“The painfully self-conscious “web 2.0″ movement […] represents the web’s adolescence”
Go with the flow - a fascinating article about how mobile phones can be used to track […]
Via Bibliopedia, Library Thing now has a French interface, which will use your existing account if you have one. Don’t assume that it will change the sites it searches for bibliographic information as I did. Unless you have otherwise already added amazon.fr etc you will need to add these sites under “Rechercher dans quelle source” […]
The catalyst for the trip was Michel Polnareff. No, really. Virtually unheard of outside France, Belgium and Japan (thanks to devoted collectors and special editions of his albums) but a major figure on the French 60s and 70s music scene. I have little doubt that we travelled the furthest of anyone to attend the concerts […]
Back from London, Paris and Berlin. It was very nice to have a few weeks away from the computer, and unusually for me, I didn’t visit any libraries on this trip.
Well, that’s not entirely true, I did go to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in both Potsdamer Platz and in the former East but both required […]
