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Lorcan Dempsey at OCLC: Metrics and visibility      Similar

I was interested to come across the Service Level Definitions page at the Library at the London School of Economics. Additionally, we have a number of Service Targets which we monitor on a monthly or termly basis. You can see our general service standards and the full results for our service targets for the academic year to date here. We have put a few interesting facts for last month opposite. [ Service Level Definitions] What is interesting is that they publish their performance against the targets. I do not have a sense of how common this is. Here are their targets for availability of the c...
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3 days ago

Article history and Enid Blyton      Similar

It is nice seeing the Guardian record article history on the web version of articles - when was it originally published, what are the details of print publication, revisions. This shows that they are serious about what they publish as part of an ongoing part of the historical record. Incidentally, the article I link to here is about a poll of best loved authors in the UK commissioned by Costa. Enid Blyton came top, a name not as well known in the US as in the UK. But this latest nomination is not for best children's writer, it is for best-loved writer, full stop. Blyton's gold medal position i...
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3 days ago

Meet the candidates      Similar

Here is the Worldcat Identity for each of the Democrat and Republican candidates .... Joe Biden John McCain Barack Obama Sarah Palin I will leave it to others to offer any commentary ;-) And here are some others to review .... George Bush George W Bush Bill Clinton Hillary Rodham Clinton Christopher J Dodd Al Gore Mike Huckabee Dennis J Kucinich Ralph Nader Mitt Romney Here is the subject cloud for John McCain: Here is the subject cloud for Barack Obama: Quick Bookmarks: del.icio.us Digg Google Reddit Furl
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