Versions

Version One of the Versions toolkit is out – http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/versions/VERSIONS_Toolkit_v1_final.pdf
I’m keen to add something like this to my repository info, especially after today’s ruptions re e-theses (don’t ask..)..

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The University of Google – my information skills rant of the week.

I’m currently reading “The University of Google: education in the [post] education age” by Tara Brabazon. It’s absolutely fascinating, highly recommended for anyone interested in higher education and information skills in the digital age. I need to buy a copy myself, because as I’m reading I feel the need to highlight passages all [...]

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DSpace installed against Oracle 10?

Apparently this isn’t as straightforward as the DSpace documentation might suggest, and further problems may arise when installing patches/plugins etc as most are designed with a PostgreSQL database in mind. This is a problem as it negates one of the main reasons for choosing DSpace, that of being able to use and feed back [...]

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Training repository administrators

I’ve been doing a number of training sessions lately, for a number of different, err, stakeholders in the repository. Today I have my first session with the five librarians that will be helping to administer the collections, and perform the mediation on deposits.
I’ve split the sessions up, ostensibly into three meetings over [...]

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