Digital Infrastructure for Learning Content Update: February 2012
So much has been happening since my last update in November 2011, I thought it would be useful to round up the news around JISC work on digital infrastructure relating to learning content. OER The Call...
View ArticleDoes the library have a role to play in the Digital Humanities?
What role does the library have to play in the increasingly data driven, technologically evolving humanities? Humanities and the social sciences have traditionally been disciplines aligned closely with...
View ArticleData-Driven Library Infrastructure: UKSG 2012 Presentation
Below is a copy of the plenary presentation I gave to the UKSG conference 2012. I have also included a much reduced transcript of the talk to provide some context to the slides. My presentation was...
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Bridging the Divide: The role of libraries in the sciences
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikolski/3269902495/ While libraries come to terms with new forms of scholarly communication and the technological transformation of the academy, has one academic domain...
View ArticleThe JISC ebooks universe
My colleague Ben Showers has recently been looking across the work taking place around digital books in all their forms: open textbooks, digital monographs, epub, web-based books. For educational...
View ArticleThe Future of Library Systems – New Projects
As part of the recent Library Systems funding call I am pleased to announce that seven new projects have been funded to explore the future of library systems. Details of the successful projects can be...
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Redesigning Library Systems and Services
Who’d have thought that a redesigned library website could attract quite so much attention. Yet, the recent announcement by Stanford’s University Library that it has redesigned its website seems to...
View ArticleDigital Library User Experience – A video from the future!
I was asked to present a short ‘provocation’ on the topic of the Digital User Experience for the SCONUL winter conference 2012, and the impact this will have on the future of library skills. The...
View ArticleShared Library Systems and Services, Part 1
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...
View ArticleLibrary Systems Workshop
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 share...
View ArticleDigital Infrastructure for Learning Content Update: February 2012
So much has been happening since my last update in November 2011, I thought it would be useful to round up the news around JISC work on digital infrastructure relating to learning content. OER The Call...
View ArticleDoes the library have a role to play in the Digital Humanities?
What role does the library have to play in the increasingly data driven, technologically evolving humanities? Humanities and the social sciences have traditionally been disciplines aligned closely with...
View ArticleData-Driven Library Infrastructure: UKSG 2012 Presentation
Below is a copy of the plenary presentation I gave to the UKSG conference 2012. I have also included a much reduced transcript of the talk to provide some context to the slides. My presentation was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bridging the Divide: The role of libraries in the sciences
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikolski/3269902495/ While libraries come to terms with new forms of scholarly communication and the technological transformation of the academy, has one academic domain...
View ArticleThe JISC ebooks universe
My colleague Ben Showers has recently been looking across the work taking place around digital books in all their forms: open textbooks, digital monographs, epub, web-based books. For educational...
View ArticleThe Future of Library Systems – New Projects
As part of the recent Library Systems funding call I am pleased to announce that seven new projects have been funded to explore the future of library systems. Details of the successful projects can be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Redesigning Library Systems and Services
Who’d have thought that a redesigned library website could attract quite so much attention. Yet, the recent announcement by Stanford’s University Library that it has redesigned its website seems to...
View ArticleDigital Library User Experience – A video from the future!
I was asked to present a short ‘provocation’ on the topic of the Digital User Experience for the SCONUL winter conference 2012, and the impact this will have on the future of library skills. The...
View ArticleShared Library Systems and Services, Part 1
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...
View ArticleLibrary Systems Workshop
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 share...
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