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Algebra, Boole, Computers, Display

There’s a small book display on the ground floor of the GCW University Library to mark the end of Boolefest (“a celebration of the life of George Boole“), a week-long arts and sciences festival which...

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Three years of e-book usage at the University of Lincoln

I’m just going to leave this here for safe keeping: (Click on the image for a bigger view.) The chart shows the growth over time in the number of e-book title accesses (derived) per month between...

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List of UK public libraries with downloadable e-books (mashup)

This week, I spotted that my local public library service (Lincolnshire County Council) have launched an e-books service. Hooray for them – they’ve also recently upgraded all the PCs and introduced...

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Inclusive practice, digital data, and e-books

I attended Sue Watling‘s workshop, ‘Promoting Inclusive Practice with Digital Data‘, today. (I know that Sue has delivered the same workshop in the past to groups of Library staff.) There’s also a...

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Çhaghnoaylleeaght ayns y Lioar-hasht

Laa Tinvaal Sonney Diu! Shoh rolley lioarlannyn ayns Mannin: Lioarlann Chione Droghad Lioarlann Phurt Çhiarn Lioarlann Rhumsaa Lioarlann Valley Chashtal Lioarlann Ward, Purt ny h-Inshey Ayns Doolish:...

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Michael Hart

Reproduced in full from my colleague Sue Watling’s blog. I can’t add anything to this, so I’m shamelessly reproducing it in full… Michael Hart has died. I heard this via Twitter last night but so far...

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Building an e-library in a new university in Ghana

Dr Kofi Appiah, a postdoctoral researcher from the University of Lincoln School of Computer Science, is spending a year in his native Ghana to help establish a school of technology in a new HE...

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OAPEN-UK focus group at the British Library

Today I was at the British Library (allowed in via the staff entrance, no less) for a librarians’–repository managers’ focus group of the JISC/AHRC-funded OAPEN-UK project, which will run to 2015 and...

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Reading lists problem with unnecessarily encoded e-book URLs in Horizon:...

There’s a problem with a small number of e-book URLs in our library catalogue (held in MARC records, field 856$u, for some—but not all—e-books from Coutts MyiLibrary). For complex historical reasons,...

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Ebook URLs: bodge upon bodge upon bodge

From the Oxford English Dictionary: † bodge, v. Etymology:  An altered form of botch v.1; compare grudge < grutch. Obs. or dial. 1. trans. To patch or mend clumsily. Chris Leach and I have had to...

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