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Didn’t know I was being antisocial

The New York Times featured another study furthering the notion that Internet use is socially isolating and takes people away from other activities. I'm perfectly willing to grant them the…

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Open Access

I guess this is the day to post intros! Peter Suber, at Open Access News, has published a very concise introduction to the concept of open access. A Very Brief…

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Searching handwritten manuscripts and Google

Earlier this month, I had reported on a new way to search handwritten manuscripts that was developed by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Today, the New York Times has…

library school our digital future

D-Lib has an article about a new grant-funded partnership between the library and information studies departments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Indiana University at Bloomington to develop…

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Digitization’s long-term implications

The Librarian in Black pointed the way to a fabulous tutorial on digital preservation. Anyone interested in the subject should take a look at Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term Strategies…

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Google’s Herculean task

Here's an interesting article from the San Francisco Gate about how Google has so far undertaken their Herculean digitization task. According to the article, at the rate they're going at…

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Michael Gorman on Google

The ALA president-elect, Michael Gorman, has expressed his opinion on Google print and book digitization in an op-ed piece in today's Newsday. He essentially thinks that the Google deal is…

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Discretely blogging

I don’t always agree with everything Free Range Librarian writes, but I think she is pretty darn right in her entry today about confidentiality and discretion. We librarians are all…

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Where Google leads…

Here is an interesting article I found via Resource Shelf. The Open Archive Initiative (OAI) and Google Scholar by Nick Luft looks at one positive effect Google (and specifically Google…

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Digital libraries: Full of promise or full of foreboding?

The New York Times has a quite interesting piece today about what we lose and what we gain with the growth of digital libraries. In Questions and Praise for Google…

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Lost in the shuffle

This is also huge digital library news, but, with the Google frenzy, they've really been the victim of bad timing. International Libraries and the Internet Archive collaborate to build Open-Access…

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Google and the “great digitization”

I’ve been quietly reading about the Google deal with the libraries of Stanford, University of Michigan, Harvard, Oxford, and New York City, and the resultant debates/rants on various blogs. I…

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Oh those creative cable execs! “Transitional fair use”

Apparently, an executive at Time Warner has been shopping around a new idea of fair use that would benefit the television industry. It’s called “transitional fair use.” According to Rick…

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More on A-list bloggers and why we blog

There has been some blogging about blog popularity this week. Blake of LISNews looked at the popularity of library blogs – within the entire blogosphere and versus other library blogs.…

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Can’t see the trees for the forest

Chris Jowaisas of TechnoBiblio brought up an important point about implementing Wi-Fi in libraries (or anywhere for that matter): the need for power. Sure, it's great to have Wi-Fi, but…

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Graduating today, but still have a lot to learn

Wow, so today is the day I graduate. Being that my whole library educational experience was virtual (except for my internship and a trip to the ALA conference in June)…

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Do blogs need a code of ethics?

Karen Schneider of Free Range Librarian has written a thought-provoking piece about blogging ethics. She says that librarian bloggers need a code of ethics because “too many of us want…

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Public library computers for me but not for thee?

I remember years ago, when I would travel and wanted to keep in touch with my friends and family, I would just pop into the local library and use the…

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Bringing LexisNexis to the masses: LexisNexis Ala Carte

LexisNexis is now offering its articles ala carte, which allows regular folks who are not affiliated with an institution of higher learning to search LexisNexis and buy the full-text if…

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Why we blog

Steven Cohen has written a concise explanation of why he blogs, which perfectly describes what I hope to get out of blogging: When people ask me why I put so…

Didn’t know I was being antisocial

Open Access

Searching handwritten manuscripts and Google

Digital library program

Digitization’s long-term implications

Google’s Herculean task

Michael Gorman on Google

Discretely blogging

Where Google leads…

Digital libraries: Full of promise or full of foreboding?

Lost in the shuffle

Google and the “great digitization”

Oh those creative cable execs! “Transitional fair use”

More on A-list bloggers and why we blog

Can’t see the trees for the forest

Graduating today, but still have a lot to learn

Do blogs need a code of ethics?

Public library computers for me but not for thee?

Bringing LexisNexis to the masses: LexisNexis Ala Carte

Why we blog

On 20 Years of Blogging at Information Wants to be Free

A review of Information Literacy and Social Media by Santamaría and Pfannenstiel

Community Time and Enoughness: The heart of slow librarianship

Queer Time, Crip Time, and Subverting Temporal Norms