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From: Neddy Boyle
Subject: blurb
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:34:11 +0300
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The report notes that there were two main groups of remarks about library staff.
So, for example, the ability of Worldcat. It utilizes a host of web services, including many from OCLC, and will take several paths depending on what it finds at various stages. This is one reason that the authors support the idea of an organization which bears the costs of coordination and advancement and reduces that cost for individual institutions and move things along.
I would have been interested to learn what they see as priorities: what are the three or four things that JISC could fund to effectively advance some of the topics they describe. It also provides some useful framing approaches, helpfully shaping a wide range of materials.
Click it to capture the citation. The project page is hosted at Ithaka: will it also host an Organization for Open Source Software as discussed in the report? The second was that they were not seen as having academic expertise.
This is not to say that it is easy to find these numbers, but it would be interesting context. This is their favored response. Currently it checks prices in several book buying sites, will look in selected library sites, or will interact with Worldcat.
In the notebook were pasted various 'provocative' statements.
It is suggested that better signalling of different library roles, and of the expert advice that is available would help here. The authors report that people tend not to use the library for searching, but, once something is found, they do look to the library to get it.
You can configure it with the selection of book sites, library sites, and your zip code. The Flickr staging post puts the entry process closer to the user flow, as potential users may already be familiar with it, and it provides other relevent services.
You will notice that I use it in slightly different ways above.
The study took an ethnographic approach, using a variety of qualitiative techniques to try to build up a rich picture of library perceptions and expectations.
These are of course major issues for research libraries everywhere. I found it strange that the report's focus is one potential answer to this set of issues, rather than the issues themselves and a range of possible answers.
In one followup workshop, the idea of a personal contact for each unit was welcomed. It is suggested that better signalling of different library roles, and of the expert advice that is available would help here.
dk to any great degree during the selection process'.
You can configure it with the selection of book sites, library sites, and your zip code. Users tended not to turn to librarians for support in the search phase; they are most likely to ask for assistance in the retrieval phase.
The service will act as a portal for the discovery of Australian people and organisations by clustering entries created by partner agencies, with links to related resources.
This is a very helpful piece of work which reviews a variety of approaches. I had seen mention of it before but had not tried it.
In this way, the reader has some guidance which will influence a decision about whether or not to request the delivery of the item.
The academic library community does not have non commercial alternatives in a similar way.
I like the way they use the sea in the current website design.


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