UWE MSc

Hello to any UWE MSc in Information and Library Management people who may be reading this! Tonight is the first session this semester for the ‘Academic Libraries’ module I’m teaching. I’m looking forward to it, and to meeting the students. I’ve been buried in repositories for so long now that the MSc [...]

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RSP Summer School 2008

I had a quick trip up to the Wirral on Wednesday for the Repository Support Programme Summer School 2008. The event was held at Thornton Manor, a fabulous country pile built by Lord Leverhulme of the Sunlight soap empire. I was only at the summer school for Wednesday afternoon but the RSP team [...]

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What’s happening..

After two long weekends in May, these five day work weeks in June are rough. June is looking busy though, with some big repository decisions coming up here, and then I’m out and about a couple of times. Next week, on the 12th June is the UKeIG Annual Seminar where I’m doing a [...]

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VERSIONS toolkit.. again

I’ve just written a quick email to the Versions toolkit team to say what a great document they’ve produced – possibly the best, most practical thing I’ve read all year. It’s just so common-sensical. It lays out some useful milestone versions, and provides guidance on identifying versions, including an author checklist of information [...]

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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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Quick introduction to repositories

I’ve just drafted a couple of papers for various meetings, and I’m also working on an FAQ page for the repository. My RSS feeds have just alerted me to this new publication by Charles Bailey – at first inspection it’s a good introduction especially for repos people at the coalface but I think I’ll [...]

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Out and About

I’ve been neglecting the blog about lately as I’ve had my attention diverted elsewhere. This week has been taken up with the Internet Librarian International Conference in London. It seemed to be a well-recieved conference (apart from lots of muttering under the breath about the ridiculous cost of wifi – I mean, honestly, [...]

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Libraries Without Walls 7

My husband is getting irate because I keep saying ‘while I’m on holiday’ instead of ‘at the conference’. Freudian slip, I’m sure.
The LWW7 conference is held in Molyvos on the Aegean Island of Lesvos. The conference theme is: Exploring ‘anytime, anywhere’ delivery of library services, with an international line-up of presenters [...]

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DSpace installation

Kelvin’s working on our DSpace install, wading through the documentation and nutting out integration issues. We paid a visit to the University of Bristol repository people on Friday afternoon, and I think this helped a lot. They’ve been in the repository game a lot longer, and Naveed, their tech support has implemented a [...]

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Repository masterclass @ ILI

The Internet Librarian International Conference in London, October 8-9 has a repository masterclass. Run by Frank Cervone of Northwestern University, USA it’s called ‘Repositories and Digital Initiatives’. The class is on the Sunday 7th October, before the conference. It looks very practical and the blurb says ‘through this step-by-step road map [...]

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