Tag Archives: LOTF09

British Library and Copyright – geeks vs. business

Posted on March 23, 2009 by pm286

I’ve had a wornderful day talking with Ben White from the BL. Ben is in charge of Intellectual Property matters at the BL and very interested in how Copyright affects science and its practice and dissemination. We spent a lot … Continue reading →

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libraries of the future – Ithaka report

Posted on March 23, 2009 by pm286

In preparing for LOTf09 I asked the organizers for some guidance and got a helpfiul reply: Hi Peter I would like your to talk to include the research/scientific needs as this is an important perspective, in terms of questions – … Continue reading →

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librarians of the future – part IV

Posted on March 23, 2009 by pm286

This is the final set of ideas as to what libraries (or librarians) of the future should look like for LOTF09 in Oxford. (BTW there is no current use of the tag on Technorati other than me – in contrast … Continue reading →

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librarians of the future – Part III

Posted on March 22, 2009 by pm286

Continuing the theme of librarians (as creators of the new libraries). Very little feedback on the blog, a bit more on FriendFeed. A general feeling that ULibrarians (I shall use this to mean University Librarians who run ULibraries) were not … Continue reading →

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libraries of the future – FriendFeed

Posted on March 21, 2009 by pm286

In looking at the library of the future, we must be aware of what the web will develop without any regard to what academia and academic Librarians think is the right way to do things. Most new initiatives fail. I … Continue reading →

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librarians of the future – part II

Posted on March 21, 2009 by pm286

Continuing my very personal selection of “digital librarians” and “digital libraries”. I stress that these are people and organizations that make a real difference to me as a scientist. This could be directly by providing material I use, making major … Continue reading →

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librarians of the future – your feedback

Posted on March 20, 2009 by pm286

I’ve had two pieces of feeback. Dorothea Salo scripsit: Provocative statements [ …] I neither endorse nor decry these [PMR’s views]. I merely want to call attention to the fact that Peter Murray-Rust is one of the people we serve, … Continue reading →

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librarians of the future – part I

Posted on March 19, 2009 by pm286

In collecting my thoughts for “the library of the future” (The JISC + The Bodleian) in Oxford on April 2 I’m thinking of those people or organizations that I look to for a combination of resources, philosophy, advocacy that support … Continue reading →

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The library of the future – Guardian of Scholarship?

Posted on March 19, 2009 by pm286

I am still working out my message for JISC on April 2nd on “The library of the future”. I’ve had suggestions that I should re-ask this as ““What are librarians for?”” (Dorothea Salo) and “what can a library do?” (Chris). … Continue reading →

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The librarian of the future – Caveat Bibliotheca

Posted on March 16, 2009 by pm286

Dorothea – a mover and shaker in the librarian world has gently chided me on my approach to “the library of the future”. She has a point but I’m not sure what to do… Peter, could I suggest a slight … Continue reading →

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