Are Blogs Here to Stay ? : An Examination of the Longevity and Currency of a Static List of Library and Information Science Weblogs
Kay Johnson
The chronological entries in Weblogs or blogs record musings, opinions, news or other information supplied by individuals or groups. The nature of blogs is ephemeral in that the content is closely tied to the time period of the posting. The author examines the library and information science blogs listed on Susan Herzog’s “BlogBib: Select Librarian/Library Blogs” to see if they were being updated thirteen months after Herzog stopped maintaining the Web site.1 Active, inactive, ceased, and blogs with changed URLs were recorded. Extra content was noted.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2008.06.009
Friday, October 17, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Google and Hathi Trust - online books
A group of major universities has been quietly working for the past two years to build one of the largest online collections of books ever assembled, by pooling the millions of volumes that Google has scanned in its partnership with university libraries.
One of the most important functions of the project, say its leaders, who plan to unveil the giant library today, is to create a stable backup of the digital books should Google go bankrupt or lose interest in the book-searching business.
http://chronicle.com/free/2008/10/5061n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
One of the most important functions of the project, say its leaders, who plan to unveil the giant library today, is to create a stable backup of the digital books should Google go bankrupt or lose interest in the book-searching business.
http://chronicle.com/free/2008/10/5061n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The Changing face of document supply: The British Library
The British Library: the changing face of document supply
By Mat Pfleger, British Library, Bookham, UK
The environment for document supply is rapidly changing.
The paper below provides an insight into the current response of the largest document supplier in the world, the British Library, to this change.
The link to the article is :
emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02641610810897836
By Mat Pfleger, British Library, Bookham, UK
The environment for document supply is rapidly changing.
The paper below provides an insight into the current response of the largest document supplier in the world, the British Library, to this change.
The link to the article is :
emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02641610810897836
YEARNING AFTER BOOKS
YEARNING AFTER BOOKS: Why are so many artists and writers
preoccupied by the so-called demise of bookish culture?
see article at: http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/10/2008101001c.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
......."The most eloquent reflection I have found on the future of books is Alberto Manguel's The Library at Night (2006), which strikes a balance between romanticism and realism, nostalgia and foresight. His reflections on books and technology emphasize complementarity rather than conflict: "The birth of a new technology need not mean the death of an earlier one: The invention of photography did not eliminate painting, it renewed it, and the screen and the codex can feed off each other and coexist amicably on the same reader's desk."
And, it may be that electronic technology is even more fragile than books. "There may come a new technique of collecting information next to which the Web will seem to us habitual and homely in its vastness," Manguel writes, "like the aged buildings that once lodged the national libraries in Paris and Buenos Aires, Beyrouth and Salamanca, London and Seoul."
We are pained by the change of familiar bookish institutions, but, before long, I expect we will begin to feel nostalgia for the microfilm and the CD-ROM and yearn for a time when the Internet was as fresh and young as our belief in its capacity to replace the printed book and the library."
preoccupied by the so-called demise of bookish culture?
see article at: http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/10/2008101001c.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
......."The most eloquent reflection I have found on the future of books is Alberto Manguel's The Library at Night (2006), which strikes a balance between romanticism and realism, nostalgia and foresight. His reflections on books and technology emphasize complementarity rather than conflict: "The birth of a new technology need not mean the death of an earlier one: The invention of photography did not eliminate painting, it renewed it, and the screen and the codex can feed off each other and coexist amicably on the same reader's desk."
And, it may be that electronic technology is even more fragile than books. "There may come a new technique of collecting information next to which the Web will seem to us habitual and homely in its vastness," Manguel writes, "like the aged buildings that once lodged the national libraries in Paris and Buenos Aires, Beyrouth and Salamanca, London and Seoul."
We are pained by the change of familiar bookish institutions, but, before long, I expect we will begin to feel nostalgia for the microfilm and the CD-ROM and yearn for a time when the Internet was as fresh and young as our belief in its capacity to replace the printed book and the library."
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