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Poetry and the Cyber Library

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In the spirit of the BBC’s Poetry Season to ‘let poetry into your life’  I’m re-tweeting a link to a poem commissioned by Essex County Council  to mark the inauguration of their new ELAN library computer system, posted by a librarian on Twitter.  The link will open the poem in Word. http://bit.ly/hW6Ok

Written by Cathryn Hall

May 12th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

Copyright seminar

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Lis-copyseek is a closed discussion list for copyright permission seekers to share information and experience.  On 5 March 2009, some of the leading lights on lis-copyseek organised a copyright seminar held at the John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester. Professor Charles Oppenheim from Loughborough was in the chair. Jason Miles-Campbell from JISC Legal spoke [...]

Knitted books on BBC Radio Lincolnshire

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Here it is… broadcast just before 8 o’clock yesterday morning, on the Breakfast Show with Rodders. With apologies for my bad attempts at radio humour.

Written by Paul Stainthorp

December 12th, 2008 at 9:58 am

Fame at last…

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I was interviewed by BBC Radio Lincolnshire late on Friday about the knitting incident. When it’s broadcast, I’ll see if I can get hold of a copy. I’ve since been informed that guerilla knitting is not entirely unheard-of. Paul

Written by Paul Stainthorp

December 10th, 2008 at 8:30 am

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Athens stats – note

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I’m about to do the Athens quarterly stats (for July, August, September 2008), and I’ll post them here, as well as to the Athens stats archive on the “L&LR staff” section of the Portal. These stats were never very meaningful in the first place (they’re a partial picture at best, don’t register a whole load [...]

Written by Paul Stainthorp

October 1st, 2008 at 5:11 pm