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Performance and Measurement in Libraries 26 Jul 2013 | 02:25 pm
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...
Services to support UK repositories 24 Jul 2013 | 08:16 pm
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 in...
Library Systems Workshop 19 Jul 2013 | 05:23 pm
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 sha...
Mobile discovery: don’t retro-fit; invent! 9 May 2013 | 05:11 pm
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 opportun...
Shared Library Systems and Services, Part 1 22 Apr 2013 | 03:24 pm
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...
How you can help us to make research administration more efficient 18 Apr 2013 | 08:12 pm
Jisc and CASRAI are piloting the development of a ‘UK chapter’ of the CASRAI dictionary to improve research interoperability. Get in touch by emailing info@casrai.org if you’d like to keep up-to-date ...
Week endNotes 1 Mar 2013 | 09:19 pm
The highlight of this weeks endNotes is something that happened at the end of last week (I know it’s cheating, but there wasn’t an endNote last week!). The International Discovery Summit, held at the ...
Week endNotes: Digital Infrastructure 11 Feb 2013 | 11:16 am
It seems that all the cool kids produce weekly notes on their blogs reflecting back on the work that’s taken place over the week! Take a look at the Government’s Digital Service or Berg for some r...
Observing the Web 1 Feb 2013 | 09:09 pm
Like a lot of people, when I think about it, or when I’m reminded about it, I understand that the Web is a place where someone is always watching what you do. I understand that … but then I think, wel...
Jisc LAMP – Shedding Light on Library Data and Metrics 1 Feb 2013 | 03:27 pm
The current buzz and enthusiasm around data is difficult to avoid. Whether it’s the challenges of ‘big data’, the potential of data-driven techniques, or simply the power and clarity of data visualisa...
