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.
If Courses are About Content, We Have Competition…
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It’s Open Education Week this week, apparently (whatever that means),
although as Amber writes in her piece openedspace: “most of the definitions
[of open ...
Three Cheers and Two Questions for the DPLA
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Robert Darnton gave a talk at my institution last week about the Digital
Public Library of America (DPLA). He presented a progress report, the
details of w...
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,...
Your ebook rent just went up 300%
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One of my colleagues was quoted in “Librarians Feel Sticker Shock as Price
for Random House Ebooks Rises as Much as 300 Percent,” an article at The
Digital...
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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