Feeling a little tired, having had two quick Thursday night / Friday trips in a row to Frankfurt and then The Hague: the hour's difference means an overnight stay. Frankfurt was a meeting about key performance indicators for The European Library. This would be relatively easy to do this for a national library, but for a portal this is quite difficult. The morning goes well but in the afternoon there is too much detail about file logs. The following Friday is a meeting, convened by The European Library and europeana, to explore an eScholar project for European funding: what tools does the digital scholar need? Are some researchers not using digital research methods because they are too difficult to learn, combine, or just because the right tool for them has not been devised? I must be cursed as each time I fly to or back from The Hague there is a storm, and the plane is usually delayed. Time to catch up on my new reading, Mary Shelley's 'The Last Man' - the plague could almost be the swine flu pandemic.
