As someone who no longer works in a library (but for libraries), I feel that I’ve had more space than ever in the last year to think about the future of libraries, removed from the daily grind of library work. Irony, much? This month, there’s been an absolute flurry of content by Australian library bloggers [...]
Internet Librarian International 2009 is being held in London next week. I will have a presentation at the conference, but unfortunately due to a work travel commitment I am not able to attend myself. Instead, this gave me an opportunity to find a co-author/presenter and explore some ideas about the role of the catalogue in [...]
Last night I was watching a few news clips on the BBC News website, and at the end of each video was links to “more like this”. I made a comment on Twitter: “End of BBC news videos on their site suggests ‘more like this’. Don’t really want to watch ‘more like this’ if I’m [...]
I’ve spent the past few months completely absorbed by the catalogue as we built a new interface. It’s been exciting and frustrating all at once to get to grips with the possibilities of what we can do with the concept of a catalogue, and what options there are now to expand it (and what options [...]