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Some more that I remember: A compilation of Che Guevara’s writings entitled Venceremos, edited by John Gerassi. Most of the works in it were speeches and as I remember them better for their rhetoric than for their political analysis. Set…
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Today’s selections: Naas and Cheltenham
150 Naas: Contempo Suite 200 Cheltenham Guilt 235 Cheltenham (Cleeve Chase) Hardy Eustace 305 Cheltenham (Pillar Chase)Therealbandit 335 Cheltenham (Ladbroke Chase) Whereareyounow
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Lost books
I’ve lost a lot of books over the years. Here’s one’s that I miss: Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square: I was sure I had a copy, but when I wanted to lend it to a friend, could not locate it anywhere.…
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PNAS on e-journals
An article in PNAS discusses the economics of e-journals and site licences and consequent effects on the scientific community. Carl T. Bergstrom, and Theodore C. Bergstrom The costs and benefits of library site licenses to academic journals PNAS 101: 897-902;…
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LRB: John Sutherland on publishing
John Sutherland writes the diary in the latest London Review of Books , which he devotes to a discussion of publishing. His remarks were inspired by a letter to all his members from last year’s President of the Modern Languages…
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Two out of four
Not a bad day by any means: I had Magical Balliwick in Connaught Cup at Wincanton ( won 3/1) and Claymore in 245 at Wetherby (5/1) in a yankee. If only Perouse (see previous posts to this blog) had managed…
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Letters in THES on open archiving
Today’s THES carries two letters continuing the debate on open access, one from Fred Friend rebutting the assertion that open access will censor publication according to ability to pay, and the other suggesting that learned societies might need to charge…
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Letters on open access in THES
Today’s THES carries two letters continuing the debate on open access, one from Fred Friend rebutting the assertion that open access will censor publication according to ability to pay, and the other suggesting that learned societies might need to charge…
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HLIN’s twelfth night event
A UK National Library of Health?
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Henry James
Reading the Golden Bowl (and it’s taking me a long time. I bought a copy on the day of the Varsity match, to read over lunch and on the journey home…that’s over a month ago). Last night on the train…
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Father Cyril Barrett SJ
And today Father Cyril Barrett, Reader in Philosophy at Warwick. The obituarist says “he made no attempt to disguise his chafing at the Vatican’s hierarchical politics and social conservatism” and quotes him as saying in a London restaurant on the…
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OPML
Discovered this, an excellent way of sharing RSS feeds. iBlogger doesn’t support it yet, but I have suggested it as a possible enhancement on the ibloggers.net forum. In the meantime, I may try to think of a way of using…
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Missing obits in Times compact edition
Odd: the Times web site lists some obits in today’s paper that don’t appear in the compact (ie tabloid) edition I bought at 6 this am, including that of the milliner Elfrieda Fluss .
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Jeff Nuttall 1933-2004
“Painter. poet, writer, actor performance artist and musician who led the British “happening”
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CILIP evidence to House of Commons Science and Technology Committee
Discussion on the Jiscmail lis-cilip list suggest that CILIP will be submitting evidence to the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee enquiry , which is good. The Health Libraries Group has also undertaken to submit evidence. The more the…
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Last survivor of the battle of Jutland
This morning’s Times has the obituary of Captain Henry Fancourt, last survivor of the Battle of Jutland, who died aged 103 on January 8th
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US Universities cancel “big deals’
The BMJ reports that three US university libraries are cancelling “big deal” journal subscriptions with Elsevier. Harvard is cancelling a bundled package of Elsevier journals, and Cornell also announced last month it would not renew a package of more than…
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LOCKSS: digital preservation initiative from Stanford
The BMJ reports the inelegantly-named LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) initiative from Stanford. Supported by over fifty publishers, including the BMJ, the LOCKSS project gives librarians a cheap and easy way to keep, preserve and offer access to…
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Librarians in Who’s Who
Today’s Times lists librarians who have made it into the new Who’s Who. They list Robin Adams of Trinity College Dublin, David Bradbury of City of London, Antonia Byatt of the Women’s Library, Inez Lynn of the London Library, Chris…
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Letters in THES on open archiving
Two letters in today’s THES in response to the piece on open archiving in the previous issue. Iain Stevenson claims, unconvincingly I think, that open access is only for the rich, while Steve Harnad corrects the impression given that he…