The Arcadia Project is a three-year project funded by a generous grant from the Arcadia Fund to explore the role of academic libraries in a digital age. A major part of the project is a Fellowship Program which brings interesting people to Cambridge to work on aspects of this very broad subject. We have a project website which serves as the hub for our more formal activities. This blog is an informal space for exchanging ideas, contacts and sources.
AcademicPub adds Oxford University Press
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We made another impressive announcement this week that Oxford University
Press is joining the AcademicPub platform. Here is the press release:
*New York, ...
Pinterest for Libraries – what we’re doing
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I recently helped set up a Pinterest account for our library (and by “help”
I mean that I created the account. Most of the work so far has been done by
Jef...
The Other Sort of Higher Education Standards…
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…that is, not standards in the sense of university league tables, but
standards in the sense of British Standards, open standards, and
interoperability sta...
Moving on
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As some of you may have heard by now, yesterday was my last day working at Eduserv. In a few weeks, I'll be taking up a post at Cambridge University Library,...
The research Hussites
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[This is another from my catalogue of strained metaphors, and my grasp of
religious history is rather tenuous, so I'm sure people who are better
acquainted...
Big data .. big trend
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[I spoke at the Lita Top Technology Trends at Dallas. I had a trend in reserve - big data - but did not use it. Here is something along the lines of what I m...
Localizing a Brilliant UK Policy on OSS?
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Wow. It is not so often that you can point to truly enlightened
legislation and national policy, but here is one such case. Pat Masson,
just posted some ...
My readers are actually users
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Continuing the pattern of readers adding value to books, not just consuming them, My Mind On Books has posted a webliography of Here Comes Everybody, pulling...
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