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A day between the stacks

Connecting real books, metadata and people I spent one day in the stacks of the off-site central storage facility of the Library of the University of Amsterdam as one of the volunteers helping the library perform a huge stock control operation which will take years. Goal of this […]

August 9, 2013January 12, 2020Generalacademic libraries, catalogues, collection, metadata, special collections, stacks, university libraries

User experience in public and academic libraries

A couple of recent events got me thinking about differences and similarities of public and academic libraries in the digital age. I used to think that current and future digital developments would in the end result in public and academic libraries moving closer to each other, but […]