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Dictated into Arcturus Last year at Internet librarian conference in London in November, I heard for the first time of Ranganathan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._R._Ranganathan ) and his laws of library science. I was told about these by Sara Wingate Gray, one of … Continue reading →

Comments on this blog scraped into Arcturus Andrew Walker is an Earth Scientist at UCL with whom I have previously collaborated in Cambridge. He has done a great job in unearthing the source of the rubric (see second link) and … Continue reading →

Comments on this blog scraped into Arcturus We are getting close to the the ‘Allo ‘Allo, Mission: Impossible, and Alice that the British Museum enforces on academic libraries and that they accept and pass onto us, the academics. Here are … Continue reading →

Scraped from BL site without permission but claiming fair use and public interest, and edited, into Arcturus The terms in the British Library Direct (http://direct.bl.uk/bld/ViewTerms.do ) date at least from April 2005 so this DRM stuff has possibly gone on … Continue reading →

Scraped into Arcturus Dan Hagon, who is a computer scientist not a librarian, has posted my FriendFeed a useful resource from the University of Glamorgan library system. This confirms many of the facts I have assumed. http://lcss.glam.ac.uk/lrc/ills/ ================================== Secure Electronic … Continue reading →

Dictated into Arcturus There was a very well known television programme, Mission: Impossible (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Impossible) which normally started with the secret agent listening to a tape recorder and finished with the words “this tape will self destruct in 5 seconds” after … Continue reading →

Typed and Scraped from NAR site without needing permission into Arcturus Here is the latest publication from our new Liberal MP for Cambridge, Julian Huppert. I’ll comment below: Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. 20 6716-6722© The Author(s) 2009. … Continue reading →

Scraped from BBC site without permission into Arcturus I am bewildered. I found a 2006 news item from the BBC which I quote in full (fair use, but without the picture – I would surely burn for that). In it … Continue reading →

Scraped from British Library site without permission into Arcturus I have found the point in time when the British Library [changed or introduced] its DRM. I quote in full (without permission, claiming fair use) and then comment. http://www.bl.uk/news/2009/pressrelease20091126.html The British Library Improves … Continue reading →

Dictated to Arcturus I have made a Freedom Of Information (FOI) request to the University Library (UL) in Cambridge asking them for the policies, practices and technology that apply to electronic materials supplied by the British Library (BL). You may … Continue reading →