e-resources for dummies
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Presentation on e-resource work in libraries. Delivered at the first Manchester New Library Professionals Group event in Manchester.TRANSCRIPT
E-resources for Dummies
Simon Barron
@SimonXIX
Manchester New Library Professionals Network
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explanatory Venn
diagram here.
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.
E-resources
Su
ck
it, prin
t res
ou
rce
s!
Et tu, Picard?
Th
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Gilead then cut Ephraim off from the fords of the
Jordan, and whenever Ephraimite fugitives said, 'Let
me cross,' the men of Gilead would ask, 'Are you an
Ephraimite?' If he said, 'No,' they then said, 'Very well,
say "Shibboleth“. If anyone said, "Sibboleth"
because he could not pronounce it, then they would
seize him and kill him by the fords of the Jordan.
Forty-two thousand Ephraimites fell on this
occasion.
Judges 12:5-6, New Jerusalem Bible
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader his [or
her] book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the
reader.
5. The library is a
growing organism.
Sir
ka
li R
am
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rita
Ra
ng
an
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Creative Commons licensed image credits:
‘Tangled technology’ from Flickr user stuant63.
‘Clouds’ from Flickr user karindaziel.
Ranganathan portrait from Wikimedia Commons.
Shibbolego from The Brick Testament:
http://www.thebricktestament.com/judges/42000_ephraimites
_killed/jg12_05-06.html
Shibboleth image from University of Chicago:
https://itservicesinternal.uchicago.edu/insite/2009/january/sh
ibboleth.shtml