Do We Need an IR or a DDMS?

Currently I am in Melbourne at eResearch Australasia which has been really interesting. I am hearing a lot about data and data management. One of the things that I have been thinking, and please excuse the brain dump, is that rather than having an IR (Institutional repository) we should have complete DDMS (document data management [...]

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Round The Block

This morning the conference committee announced the first of the real Keynote speakers for LIANZA10 in Dunedin. From one extreme to the next, from the past to the future, from the fumigation of books to discussing the real challenges that libraries and the library profession are facing and the strategies we need to employ to [...]

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Where Was I Again?

On Saturday night I watched Ellen Degeneres on the Comedy channel on sky. I know, watching trashy T.V. instead of reading, what sort of librarian am I? I am always impressed with stand up comics, especially one that can hold your attention for a whole hour, without a single swear word! Anyhow, Ellen started her [...]

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It’s a Blog Eat Blog World Out There

I have been thinking about blogs recently. I have been thinking about them rather a lot. In fact you could probably say I have been thinking about them too much. My editor in chief will probably be grateful when I’m not thinking so much about blogs! Currently I write for two blogs, this one and [...]

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