Well I am off to London tomorrow to see the wonderful wizard of Oz, not really. As the Arch Web Editor for CoFHE I have to become trained in the art of using the CILIP Content Management System. This is, for those unsure, a system that allows multiple users to create, edit and upload web [...]
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Here is a suggestion for something that I reckon, would prove a hit in any academic library. A ‘Non Google Day’. Google is now a verb in itself, to ‘Google‘ something is the act of looking up information on the internet, “What’s a multi faceted information architecture?” ”I don’t know, why don’t you google it!“ etc. So [...]
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Two interesting stories have appeared in my local rag, the first one is a report from the Local Government Association stating that migrant workers are ‘hogging’ the public access PC’s in local libraries, and the second one was an article about students protesting against Exeter University weeding some books in the main Streatham Campus library. [...]
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