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Brushing up on data manipulation and analysis skills
Wooden chart tool created for a programme on data featuring Hans Rosling One of the great things about new projects is that they offer the opportunity to learn new skills as well as build on existing...
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Contemplating data
Analytics seems to be a major theme of a lot of conferences at the moment. I’ve been following a couple of library sector conferences this week on twitter (Talis Insight...
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EBSCO support for Open Source library services platform
The news, reported in an article by Marshall Breeding in American Libraries, that EBSCO has decided to support a new open source library services platform is a fascinating development. To join with...
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Cognitive mapping and other journeys
I think it was the quiet concentration that made the first impression on me. Going into a room where a group of library staff were busy carrying out a cognitive mapping exercise. Everyone was...
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Elsevier acquire Plum analytics
Interesting news this week that Elsevier have bought Plum Analytics from EBSCO. It seems to be part of a trend for the big content companies to expand their reach by acquiring other companies in...
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A couple of interesting developments in semantic web and linked data search
The announcement yesterday of Olso public library’s new open-source linked data discovery interface comes just a few days after JSTOR unveiled their new prototype text analyzer. JSTOR’s text analyzer...
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Hybrid print and digital
Libraries have long been contemplating the implications of a shift from print to digital and underlying that thinking is the perception of print and digital being very much a binary choice. But is...
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Typology and the myth of the digital native
It’s intriguing how long it takes for a concept to rise and fall and the persistence of some ideas in the face of evidence that contradicts them. Digital natives, the idea (suggested by Marc Prensky)...
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Many academic libraries have invested in web-scale discovery systems such as EBSCO Discovery or Primo (to name just two) and many will have also built lists of library resources for library users,...
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UX isn’t just a tick-box exercise
There’s a great blog post from last week by Kelly Lothbrook-Smith @kayelesss on twitter, ‘In defence of UX‘ that sums up just how difficult it can be to get UX and usability approaches embedded into...
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