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Why isn’t a picture worth a thousand words?
September 16, 2009 | 12 commentsTags: ALA, Ariel, DOCLINE, document delivery, FTP, ILL, ILL/DD, interlibrary loan, interlibrary services, National Library of Medicine, Odyssey, researchers, scanners, scanning, science, worldcatIn the Library with the Lead Pipe is pleased to welcome another guest author, Kristine Alpi! Kris is the Director of the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University Libraries. Why do document delivery technologies limit information transfer? The technologies that libraries use for interlibrary loan and document delivery [...]
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A Useful Amplification of Records That Are Unavoidably Needed Anyway
November 19, 2008 | 12 commentsTags: aaron swartz, amazon, catalog, cataloging, google, karen calhoun, librarything, oclc, open library, palinet, tim spalding, worldcatDepending on books can feel like relying on snail mail. “Now that I’ve showed you how to find some articles,” I say to people at the reference desk, “I’ll show you how to use our website to find some books you might want to check out. And after that, wouldn’t it make your grandmother’s day [...]
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