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Library-school instructor (specialties: library technology, scholarly communication, digital preservation, data curation), trainer, consultant.


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What preservation risks are associated with the PDF file format?
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Do libraries keep copies of scans created as part of interlibrary loan?
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Can someone explain the Dewey Decimal System in layman's terms?
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What are some alternates to the Dewey Decimal System?
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Are there any libraries that are trying to preserve information in Ajax-heavy websites that archive.org can't preserve?
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What factors need to be considered when developing an innovation committee in a library setting?
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Is live audio streaming legally permitted at the public library?
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What makes a successful digital scholarship centre?
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What are commonly used and accepted methods to weed a recently developed collection?
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Is it possible to check out someone's PhD student thesis from another university through interlibrary loan?
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What are the advantages to a close-stack system?
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How valuable is it to talk about “non-MARC” data?
7
How are current world events or new discoveries included in classification schemes?
7
What methods have you effectively used to keep online tutorials up to date?
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Is library-as-publisher a viable option for small libraries?
7
If a book is open access online is a university library less likely to buy a copy?
6
Holiday decorations in a public library
6
Applications to browse MARC (maybe with statistics)?
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Is there a way to tell what category a book belongs to?
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What do university libraries do to their extremely old books?
6
What's a good elevator pitch to a layman asking “What's digital humanities/humanities computing/[insert local jargon here]?”
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The change in cataloging rules from AACR2 to RDA
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What unique challenges and benefits exist when lending ebooks compared to traditional print books?
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What are the most important considerations when planning the introduction of a digital asset management system?
5
How to encode latitude and longitude in Dublin Core's dc.coverage? And in DSpace?
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What classifications of people's interests exist?
5
To what extent can patrons legally copy/lend media they've checked out?
5
What, if any, non-statutory factors of fair use exist and are likely to be used as precedent in the future?
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How feasible is a publicly accessible shredder in a library?
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What are the main difficulties of handling ejournals and ebooks compared to print journals?
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