Fourteen colleagues attended the first Ticer Library Directors’ Course from August 19-21, 2012. The last day was a joined one with the participants of the Ticer Summerschool. We did not have time to evaluate this last day with the fourteen of us, so I decided to provide my summary and short comments on this blog. Firstly it..
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On May 21 and 22 I attended the general meeting of the COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) in Uppsala. Sweden. Two things from the first day: first the presentation by Xiaolin Zhang (National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences), on institutional repositories in China, going strong and enriched. They increased in three years from..
Shaping Future INFO-structures, Bielefeld Conference, 24-26 April 2012 I attended this conference with two-and-half days of Library lectures, and adjacent an in-depth international meeting of Library directors. The conference started with Stefan Gradmann from Humboldt University who asked for a new term for the word Library. Librarians should help scientists and scholars with semantic abstracting..
February 28, 2012 My first time attending the EMEA (Europe, Middle-East and Africa) Regional Council meeting of OCLC. Two days in Birmingham, with I guess over 250 delegates from 22 countries (if I got it right). I started off by attending the morning session on APIs. Interesting was the acknowledgement that we should be thinking..