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13 December 2011 0 Comments

The future: how will e-books affect libraries and the culture of reading?

How will the e-book industry affect the conventional print-on-paper distribution chain — and what might it mean for libraries?

13 September 2011 0 Comments

Citation mapping

A new technique for mapping patterns of citations reveals how knowledge in a domain develops.

3 September 2011 0 Comments

DuckDuckGo receives plaudits

The search engine has been selected as one of the top fifty websites of 2011 by Time Magazine.

23 August 2011 0 Comments

Related material: a Google extension

Do you want help with finding related material during a search? Try Google Related.

17 August 2011 0 Comments

Happy birthday PC . . . but is it also “Goodbye”?

The IBM PC is thirty years old but is the “PC” concept in decline?

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16 August 2011 0 Comments

Computer, give me . . .

Has conventional searching reached a plateau of development? If so, what could be next?

16 August 2011 0 Comments

Looking for a new role?

Becoming an “information coach” could provide a promising career path.

6 August 2011 0 Comments

Resource Description and Access — cause for concern?

Is the Resource Description and Access (RDA) model for metadata an automatic choice?

1 August 2011 0 Comments

Inside Google, by an insider

So, what was it like to work for Google in the early days?

30 July 2011 0 Comments

Journal package costs and benefits

The Research Libraries UK Group (RLUK) has announced the development of a tool to analyse the cost-benefit of various approaches to journal subscription.