Presentation: Two Metadata Directions
Here are some materials from my recent presentation on Two Metadata Directions, including slides, video and a link to a fuller discussion.
Two metadata directions
Metadata practice is evolving. I discuss two important trends here: entification and pluralization.
Presentation: College, consortium, collaboration, collective collection
Constance Malpas and I gave a presentation to the Boston Library Consortium Board of Directors about the dynamics of library collaboration in consortia. It talks about collective collections as an example.
Presentation: The RLUK Digital Shift Forum
I was pleased to inaugurate the RLUK Digital Shift Forum, with a presentation on Pandemic effects and collection directions. I was especially pleased to be kindly introduced by my longstanding colleague Robin Green, University Librarian at Warwick University, and current chair of RLUK.
Collection directions accelerated? Pandemic effects.
Over the past few years I have been talking about three systemic ways in which collections, broadly understood, are evolving in a network environment. They are: the collective collection, the facilitated collection, and the inside-out collection.
Calgary Central Library: combining intimacy and civic statement
The Calgary central library was on first impression the finest public building I have been in for years.