Steven and Ken are writing a bit about how aggregating content changes serendipity.
One of my grad school professors taught us quite a bit about the importance of serendipity. I appreciate serendipity in real life. Many of my blog posts come from getting stuck in the pluff mud–what my friend Bob and I call following a [...]
The Distant Librarian reports on the excitement at EBSCO of RSS feeds and a new search interface.
noticed on Library Stuff RSS4Lib mentions EBSCO’s RSS offerings, too.
An invaluable gift: The Anschutz Corporation is donating more than 5 million items from the San Francisco Examiner’s archives to the Bancroft Library at the University of California-Berkeley. Already holding many items related to California’s history, the library’s collection will now have some excellent primary source materials from the newspaper.
"From its start under William Randolph [...]