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The Great ideas program

Great books of the Western world [2nd ed.]. by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc

Libraries, leadership, and scholarly communication : essays by Anderson, Rick, 1965-

Contents: “…Libraries and their collections, now and in the future -- Being essential is not enough -- My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings -- The crisis in research librarianship -- The portal problem : the twin plights of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the library collection -- On necessity, virtue, and digging holes with hammers -- Can, should, and will -- How sacred are our patrons? …”

The great ideas today

An emergent theory of digital library metadata : enrich then filter by Alemu, Getaneh, Stevens, Brett, 1973-

Contents: “…Web 2.0 technologies and implications for librariesThe case of Wikipedia versus encyclopaedia Britannica; Limitations of the Web 2.0 paradigm; The social construction of metadata; 4 The emergence of socially-constructed metadata in a mixed metadata approach; The positioning of post-hoc metadata creation; The potential benefit of involving users; Current platforms proactive metadata co-creation; Tagging; User reviews; Ratings; Recommendation systems; Metadata crowdsourcing; Users as proactive metadata co-creators; Metadata diversity; Metadata scalability and variable metadata participation.…”
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The Annals of America