Tag Archives: library

Library research as a form of computation

17 March 2008 – 12:32 pm

Posted on behalf of Steering Committee member Professor Janet McCalman, who writes:
I am anxious that a paper, originally recommended to me by Pip Pattison, be shared as widely as possible in the academic community and among those involved in the IF Commission.
The document is a draft paper (2007) by Andrew Abbott on “library research as […]

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Benchmark surveys: research support provided by libraries

5 February 2008 – 6:16 am

From our own Library Intelligencer (Shirley Sullivan), a handful of links to benchmarking surveys about research support provided by libraries.

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Physical spaces for scholarly information

2 February 2008 – 6:13 am

This week’s VALA 2008 conference in Melbourne includes a series of presentations about designing physical and virtual spaces for scholarly activity.
Scholarly activity happens in many different kinds of places. Perhaps the most obvious is the library building.
What does a library look like? Here are photos of two libraries that look like giant bookshelves: temporary construction […]

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