Category: Service
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Keynote speaker at 2010 Off-Campus Library Services Conference
Tim Peters writes to the OffCamp mailing list: I am very pleased to announce that Camila Alire has accepted our invitation to appear as the keynote speaker at the 2010 Off-Campus Library Services Conference. Camila is currently the President-elect of the American Library Association and the Dean Emerita of the University of New Mexico and…
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Be my counterpart in Qatar!
Just posted on the Foothills Library Association Jobline is our ad for a Public Services Systems Librarian in Qatar. If I were a younger man…
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Road trip survival – children’s music you’ll actually enjoy too!
Absolutely no relevance to libraryland, but as a public service I thought I’d throw you the names of several artists your children will love to listen to in the car, and that you’ll actually appreciate too! Wiggles – NOT! They Might Be Giants – not only their three wonderful kids albums (123 and ABC are…
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O’Reilly starting to offer DRM-free PDFs
O’Reilly Press is now offering a small number of titles as print, DRM-free PDF, or both. They’ve got 30 titles where you can choose your medium, and a dozen of those are also available on the Kindle. Interesting comments, including a brief discussion of why electronic books aren’t 90% cheaper than print even though there’s…
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University of Calgary Funds Open Access Authors Fund
There was a great announcement yesterday here at the U of C. The text below differs a little from the official press release. Thomas Hickerson, Vice Provost for Libraries and Cultural Resources and University Librarian, announced today the establishment of an annual $100,000 Authors Fund to provide University of Calgary faculty and graduate students with…
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That won’t work for us – Jim Prentice ducks questions about Bill C-61
Wow, just finished listening to an interview with Industry Minister Jim Prentice on the CBC Search Engine podcast. Apparently Minister Prentice did stick around for his promised 10 whole minutes, but no longer, as he hung up on the host of the show rather than take any additional questions. During the interview Minister Prentice contradicted…
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This one’s for Walt C. – Create PDFs from RSS feeds
As reported on Lifehacker, Feedbooks will create a nice PDF of an RSS feed. I found it a little convoluted once I signed up for an account, but figured out I needed to choose to create a newspaper, then click the RSS tab. I was then able to create a custom PDF with one of…
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Canadian Library Association Disappointed with New Copyright Legislation
Press Release (Ottawa, June 12, 2008) – Today, the Canadian Library Association (CLA) expressed disappointment with the government’s newly announced copyright legislation, Bill C-61. Bill C-61 is a missed opportunity and demonstrates that the government did not consult adequately with the user community, and did not listen to the concerns of Canadians. Overall, the Bill…
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Canadian Library Association Position Statement on Open Access for Canadian Libraries
My colleague Andrew Waller, co-convener (with Heather Morrison) of the CLA Open Access Task Force sent this out today: (from the CLA Website): Whereas connecting users with the information they need is one of the library’s most essential functions, and access to information is one of librarianship’s most cherished values, therefore CLA recommends that Canadian…