Category: Ideas
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ACTA – Quite possibly the biggest threat to your internet to date.
There's been a lot of traffic about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in the last week or so, but not nearly enough. In a nutshell, instead of proposing legislation through transparent and traditional channels (Congress, Parliament, etc), member countries seem to be pushing to enact legislation via an international treaty which has so far been…
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Apparently people want scholarly articles
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a recently-published study that monitored a file-sharing site where almost 5,500 scholarly articles were traded over a 6-month period, “costing journals about $700,000 in that time, or about $1.4-million a year.” Interestingly, the study is freely available online from The Internet Journal of Medical Informatics. I call BS…
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Internet Librarian days 2 and 3
Didn't take many notes on day three, so I'm combining two days in this post. Even so, it shouldn't be as long as the day one post. I took these notes for myself, not necessarily for the blog, so they're most definitely not session reports – hopefully some useful links to explore. I started the…
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The end of TL Infobits 🙁
Aw crap, I just read in the latest issue of TL Infobits that Carolyn Kotlas’s position at UNC Chapel Hill has been eliminated, and as a result Infobits is folding as well. From the editor’s note: This will be the next to the last issue of TL Infobits. My position at the University of North…
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Internet Librarian day one recap
I thought I'd try something new this year by not bringing my laptop to the sessions. I figured maybe I'd pay more attention, and I think it's working for me. I've still got the Wi-fiPhone for checking email from time to time, but for the most part I'm listening and writing down what ideas I…
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Guest Post – What’s in a (SLA) name?
This is a guest post written by two librarians at the U of Calgary about the proposed name change for the Special Libraries Association. In November the membership will be voting whether to change the name of their organization to ASKPro (Association of Strategic Knowledge Professionals). I have no stake in the matter, but Justine…
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Politician suggests Public Library should drop p-books in favour of e-books to save money
From TeleRead comes the story of a politician with an interesting idea, but who hasn’t explored the economics of ebook publishing. E-books for libraries pushed by economy-minded Los Angeles councilman.
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Cory Doctorow kicks off a unique publishing experiment–and a monthly PW column
Cory Doctorow’s trying to run an experiment to prove once and for all that giving a book away while simultaneously offering it for sale will realize more money for the author than simply selling the book in traditional formats. There’s quite a bit more to it than that, but that’s the gist I picked up…
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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009
An emerging list of the top 100 tools for learning in 2009, as picked by 202 learning professionals (and possibly you!). Pleased to note that I was aware of 87 of them, with most of the new-to-me ones being related to animation and course authoring systems. I found it particularly interesting to note the changes…