Trip is that rare exception, a David in a world of Goliaths. In the real world, the Goliaths usually win, but in Trip’s case, it has survived and gone from strength to strength.
The books may be there, but can you access them? [my photo]
Sci-Hub, Anna’s Archive, Library Genesis – we are all familiar with these names. They are collectively known as shadow libraries; who knows, perhaps because they only exist in the …
Large and small silver plates from Egypt, c650-550 BCE (Athens, Benaki Museum)
It was a moment of pure geekdom. Guglielmo Iozzia, director of machine learning at Merck, Dublin, proposed in a presentation how to run an LLM on a Commodore 64. …
How can a university press survive and flourish when faced with constant technical change and increasingly monolithic commercial competition? In this interview, Allison Belan, Director for Strategic Innovation and Services at Duke University Press, describes her 20+ years with Duke, and …
Rosenberg and Grafton’s Cartographies of Time (2010) is a lovely book to look at. It has an elegant design, and is illustrated in four colour throughout. Most of the timelines mentioned are …
Helen Bischoff gave a fascinating and inspiring presentation at the last Charleston Conference: how the library can become an active learning hub. Helen, who is liaison coordinator at the University of Kentucky. As a follow-up, I talked with her to find …
A (not very effective) timeline (Cezanne, Pioneer of Modernism, 1995)
Timelines are so ubiquitous, we take for granted how they work, and we assume they have always been around. Clearly, there is a need for a historical perspective, as …
If you thought being a librarian was just licensing content and shelving books, then think again. Stacey Greenwell, of the University of Kentucky Library, is redefining the role of a librarian at every turn, blending instructional design, IT, and practical research …
Libraries and publishers interact all the time, but how can a library communicate its vision for scholarly publishing? We all know about the limitations of current metrics for journal publishing: all too often the much criticised journal impact factor is used, …
