‘‘Co-existence’ still at workCo-existence’ still at work
• ‘‘Fitness for purpose’…Fitness for purpose’…
• E-mails, text messages E-mails, text messages and and lettersletters
• Cell phones, laptops Cell phones, laptops and and pens and pens and pencilspencils
• Keyboard skills Keyboard skills and and handwritinghandwriting
• Overlapping communications mediaOverlapping communications media
Picture of Picture of mss mss collectionscollections
Writing on paperWriting on paper
Beethoven manuscriptBeethoven manuscript
E-booksE-books
Workstation with printerWorkstation with printer
Google PrintGoogle Print
Four great librariesFour great libraries
Bodleian catalogue hallBodleian catalogue hall
Book Book sales/sales/produproduction ction graphgraphss
Visitors in Bodleian quadVisitors in Bodleian quad
Map of libraries in Map of libraries in OxfordOxford
Bodleian Bodleian item being item being digitiseddigitised
Library’s Web pageLibrary’s Web page
Web page of Subject ListWeb page of Subject List
““The hybrid library”The hybrid library”
““The dominant user view of a library is of a The dominant user view of a library is of a physical space. But libraries are services physical space. But libraries are services which provide organised access to the which provide organised access to the intellectual record, wherever it resides, intellectual record, wherever it resides, whether in physical places or in scattered whether in physical places or in scattered digital information spaces. The ‘hybrid’ digital information spaces. The ‘hybrid’ library of the future will be a managed library of the future will be a managed combination of physical and virtual combination of physical and virtual collections and information resources” collections and information resources”
CD version of the CD version of the Bodleian’s Pre-1920 Bodleian’s Pre-1920 CatalogueCatalogue
OLIS home pageOLIS home page
OLIS record/search resultOLIS record/search result
Manuscript finding aid in Manuscript finding aid in EAD formatEAD format
Digitised image of a Digitised image of a printed Caxton printed Caxton advertisementadvertisement
EEBO search pEEBO search pageage
EEBO item displayEEBO item display
Google Print imageGoogle Print image
From Gutenberg to From Gutenberg to Google Google
The application of The application of computers in librariescomputers in libraries
From ‘mechanisation’From ‘mechanisation’toto
‘automation’‘automation’toto
‘information, knowledge and ‘information, knowledge and
digital asset management’digital asset management’
The ‘discontinuities’ of The ‘discontinuities’ of communications in the age of the communications in the age of the
Internet: Internet: big changes under waybig changes under way
• Broader than just librariesBroader than just libraries
• The nature of publishingThe nature of publishing
• The cycle of authoring, The cycle of authoring, publication publication