The Digital Archivist, reporting to the Director of Collections & Research
Services and the Director of Digital Library Technology Services, will lead
New York University Libraries' efforts to manage the existing born digital
holdings and expand the capacity to collect born digital content, ensure
Early signs point to attendees who register under government rates being
able to count toward our room block. We'll have "for sure" info on that at
time of registration. But it sounds like y'all can go for the government
rate if it's available to you; this hotel does have an amazing government
rate
Hey code4lib!
I've been working on some text visualizations recently and realized that
there's probably at least a few people on this list who might find this
work interesting.
The first is a visualization of line similarity in T.S. Eliot's "Four
Quartets" http://willkurt.github.io/four_quartets_
The University of Manchester Library is one of only five National Research
Libraries and the third largest academic library in the UK. Our vast and rich
collections (both print and increasingly digital) help us to deliver a world-
class library and information service for the University of Manchest
A few more factual follow-ups for reference:
- The negotiation process was NOT easy and we explored many different
venues. We are not getting a raw deal. Trust me, we had some raw deals
offered. This contract has a lot of things that help us keep our
collective costs down and protect the confer
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 05:00:42AM -0700, BWS Johnson wrote:
>
> ??? Chicago is not Raleigh. I would expect to pay more in a major metropolis
> than in the Southeast University market. Further, ALA's continued to mystify
> me in the conference department, too. We are terrible negotiators.
Dunno
Also, Raleigh (and I say this both with affection and from experience) acts
a bit big for its britches. The standard rates for downtown (non-crap)
hotels is... not cheap. Rack rate for both the Sheraton and the Marriott is
nigh 'round $300 for a single. There are inexpensive options in walking
dist
On 7/1/13 8:00 AM, BWS Johnson wrote:
> Salvete!
>
>
>
>> But please don't expect the conference itself to select the venue and
>> complete conference package based on the sole requirement to keep room
>> rates down.
>
> I never suggested any such thing. I kindly suggested that someone migh
Salvete!
> But please don't expect the conference itself to select the venue and
> complete conference package based on the sole requirement to keep room
> rates down.
I never suggested any such thing. I kindly suggested that someone might
wish to see if the hotel would come down on its pr
